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Recently, more than 50 industrial and commercial enterprises in charge of logistics or information centers and representatives of redrying enterprises gathered in Kunming, Spring City, to participate in the industry cigarette logistics organized by China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Company”) Tracking system training courses.
In the class, the sound of taking notes was rustling, and the students listened carefully and asked questions from time to time; after class, surrounded the teacher to talk about knowledge, experience, and ask questions. The atmosphere was warm and warm.
The observation site of the training class was set up in the re-baking workshop and raw material warehouse of Kunming Cigarette Factory. The staff showed the “18 weapons” and demonstrated automatic coding and labeling, fixed gantry scanning, PDA mobile scanning, and forklift scanning. Code, hand-held tablet computer to confirm information… The “True Face of Lushan” of the Pian Tobacco Logistics Tracking System can be seen in front of the trainees.
In the training class, it was put forward that “the logistics tracking system for cigarettes has been successfully piloted by Hongyun Honghe Group and will be popularized and applied in the whole industry”, which also indicates that the transformation of the management of cigarettes in the industry is about to come.
to not fix?
I can only know the pack of cigarettes I have produced
“If you don’t improve the production management method, everyone can only recognize the cigarettes they have produced.” Yuan Fengchun, director of the production department of Kunming Cigarette Factory, introduced.
The production of a redrying workshop under its jurisdiction has the largest output among the three major redrying processing plants of China Tobacco in Yunnan. It is a “base-type” redrying site in the country and a “benchmark” redrying line of Kunming cigarette factory. This year, the output of redrying is as high as 1.45 million catties.
“Before there were no conditions. We used the’local method’ to manually paste the labels with information such as production unit, grade and time. The bar code below lacks matching scanning technology, and it is difficult to read the physical and chemical properties of the cigarette.” Yuan Fengchun was quite moved when he talked about it before.
For a long time, due to the relatively weak foundation of information technology in the logistics management of cigarettes, the production, inventory, and circulation of cigarettes lack accurate and timely information sources and effective management and control platforms. In Kunming Cigarette Factory, it is mainly manifested by problems such as large inventory, high structure level, large capital occupation, insufficient information technology, and incomplete information transmission.
Take Kunming Cigarette Factory as an example. Before the production of cigarette packs, each cigarette pack had to be manually labelled. During each shift in the workshop, both parties had to re-inventory the cigarette packs. When handing over to the warehouse, it was necessary to arrange 3 employees. To count the cigarette packs again, in many cases, to find out the exact number of cigarette packs, it is necessary to check repeatedly.
When it comes to warehousing, work is not easy. Whenever goods movement, warehouse transfer, allocation, and internal adjustment of the enterprise occur, the two parties must sign an order or even meet to confirm. The inventory work once or twice a year has become the most “headache” operation for warehouse managers, and it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to count the number of pieces of cigarettes one by one.
“The management of the warehousing and storage process of piece tobacco is lacking. It can only be reported to the ledger through the redrying point, and extensive management can be carried out by means of account comparison. Not to mention the data lag, the matching degree does not meet the digital and accurate storage requirements. “Wei Cansheng of the Logistics Department of the Yunnan Provincial Bureau (Company) told reporters.
In fact, the inability to achieve precise management of flake cigarettes will also cause a series of irregularities, which will have a negative impact on the effective use of the company’s core raw materials.
For example, business management can only know how many pieces of cigarettes are produced within a certain period of time in a workshop, but it is impossible to know whether there is any loss or how much wasted during the production process. “Without accurate process monitoring, there is no way to count,” a workshop manager introduced to reporters.
“As the goods change, because of the long period of management of cigarettes, real-time monitoring of physical management is impossible, and it is impossible to achieve refinement.” said Zeng Rong, a member of the Information Management Department of Hongyun Honghe Group and the project team of the logistics tracking system for cigarettes.
From the perspective of the industry as a whole, the logistics management of cigarettes has always been a weak link. The macro-level of the industry cannot fully and accurately grasp the quantity, structure and distribution of cigarettes in various regions, and overall management cannot be realized. At present, cigarette logistics has basically completed the construction of the supply chain. On this basis, higher requirements have been put forward for the management of cigarettes as the core raw material. The main purpose is to promote the in-depth development of the industry’s cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
“Industry cigarette logistics management information system has the phenomenon of cross-correlation and repetitive construction, and the waste of resources is serious, the’family’ cannot be figured out, and it cannot support the effective management and control of the core resources of the enterprise. Therefore, the information construction of cigarette logistics creates a unified industry. The public platform of Pian Tobacco Logistics Information Service brooks no delay.” said Wang Jinliang, chief engineer of China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Company.
New requirements call for new actions, which began in 2014.
In April 2014, China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Company carried out a top-level design to further consolidate the data foundation for macro-control of cigarette production, and realize the quality traceability and control of the whole life cycle of cigarettes through the comprehensive docking with the industry logistics comprehensive supervision and scheduling platform. Hongyun was selected. As a pilot unit in the industry, Honghe Group has carried out the construction of a cigarette logistics tracking system project in Kunming Cigarette Factory.
Yunnan’s tobacco production accounts for one-third of the country’s total tobacco leaf, and the production scale is large. The Hongyun Honghe Group covers a variety of tobacco management business models from independent redrying production, outsourcing processing and production, procurement and allocation, etc. It has the characteristics of diversified business models and high management complexity, and has a typical representative of the industry’s tobacco logistics management. At that time, Hongyun Honghe Group was also actively seeking ways to solve the huge number of problems in the management of cigarettes every year. The pilot work provided a breakthrough opportunity for enterprises to explore.
Steady!
Only manage those basic common attributes
“According to the attribute principle, the attributes that can affect the quality of cigarettes are included in the scope of basic management.” Zeng Rong said.
All industrial enterprises have unique formulas in the redrying process, some even belong to the “core technology”. The tobacco management can not touch the “exclusive secrets” of the enterprise, but must be accepted and recognized by everyone. It has a unified standard and can be promoted. The project team first determined the attribute principle: only manage those basic and common attributes.
The project team continued to explore technical parameters in accordance with the principle of attributes, using RFID wireless radio frequency, barcode recognition and other technologies, each cigarette box was used as a unit to assign uniquely coded information identification tags to the cigarettes, and label them in each physical logistics transfer link. Scanning codes, information tracking and tracing, maintenance and quality inspection information integration, etc.
During the pilot process, a lot of basic work was done. Shi Yanbing, manager of the logistics service department of China Tobacco Information Technology Company, took “label selection” as an example to introduce in the class. The project team conducted all-round tests and verifications on the performance of RFID tags, such as reading and writing, corrosion resistance, friction resistance, and batch reading. Seven mainstream electronic tag manufacturers in China provided large quantities of tags for actual production testing.
“We have clarified what information must be included in the tracking system. As for the information that is not publicly available, the company can decode it in the system.” Zeng Rong said, “Comprehensively unify the standards for electronic labels, scanning codes, data interfaces and other standards for cigarettes. On the premise of meeting uniform standards, companies can load their individualized and differentiated requirements into the tobacco information system.”
In this way, the logistics tracking system for cigarettes has the function of nationwide promotion.
“The level of informatization construction of various industrial enterprises and the processing level of redrying enterprises are different. If the industry can unify relevant standards, it will be of great benefit to the enterprise and the subsequent industry-wide information management of cigarettes and the establishment of digital warehouses for cigarettes.” Xu Xiaoshuang from Zhejiang China Tobacco Information Center is full of expectations.
In the Kunming Cigarette Factory, tobacco leaves are sorted, flavored, and redryed, and then sliced to form cigarettes. When the cigarette production is off-line and packaged, each cigarette box will be affixed with a unique RFID tag. Similar to a citizen ID card, the label of a cigarette contains visible plaintext and one-dimensional bar code information, as well as readable and writable information written in the RFID chip. The two types of information complement each other and uniquely determine the identity of the cigarette.
The information contained in the one-dimensional barcode mainly includes the re-baking production company code, production line, shift, the company code of the entrusting unit, production date, etc., and the built-in RFID chip contains the one-dimensional barcode and plaintext information, and can also load more pieces of cigarettes. Process control information. The data is readable and writable, and relevant information can be continuously recorded during the business process of storage, maintenance and quality management of the cigarettes, so that the logistics tracking and quality traceability of the cigarettes can be realized.
When a truck full of cigarettes enters and exits the warehouse, with the help of information equipment to identify the RFID tags, the display screen can instantly display the information of the cigarettes loaded in the vehicle, and the information of the entire vehicle is clear at a glance, realizing the “passing information”. “The hero” is the RFID tag on the cigarette box.
“Since the cigarette has an’identity card’, the fine management of the cigarette can be realized through the electronic label, and the production of the cigarette can be’visible and touchable’ while sitting in the office.” Yuan Fengchun said with a smile.
The Pian Tobacco Logistics Tracking System also interacts with the data of Hongyun Honghe Group ERP and Group Master Data System in real time, realizing information sharing and real-time and accurate data exchange. On this basis, the industry can implement comprehensive, accurate and timely management and control of the production, inventory, and sales of re-cured tobacco in enterprises, and the purchase, inventory, and feeding of tobacco in industrial enterprises.
“The pilot work of Hongyun Honghe Group has reached the enterprise’s expected goal of exploring the refinement, informatization, and intelligentization of cigarettes. The public service platform of the logistics tracking system for cigarettes will be constructed for the industry, as well as the necessary technical indicators and interface standards of the system. The unified formulation provides useful exploration and pilot projects.” Wang Jinliang told reporters.
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Supporting measures, policies, etc. still need to be in place
China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Co., Ltd. has been exploring the construction of tobacco logistics information for a long time. The journey has not been smooth sailing.
In 2012, China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Co., Ltd., Fujian, Zhejiang, Yunnan China Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd. and other units jointly carried out pilot exploration of electronic label application technology for box-storage cigarettes, and conducted investigations and studies on multiple redrying companies in the industry.
In April 2014, China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Company launched the pilot project of Hongyun Honghe Group Cigarette Logistics Tracking System. The system development was completed in October of the same year, and the deployment was completed in Kunming Cigarette Factory in February 2015. The trial operation effect was good. In 2015 Passed the project acceptance on September 15.
The foundation is under construction, and the key is to use it. Successful completion of the pilot work is like taking a reassurance. On this basis, China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Co., Ltd. will focus on the promotion of the whole industry. In view of the existing problems and deficiencies in the current work, some new explorations are also underway.
For example, provincial-level companies and industrial companies have not straightened out the business functions of cigarette logistics management, and new standardized management measures are needed.
Trainees in the training course observe the automatic code scanning production line in the redrying workshop of Kunming Cigarette Factory
The logistics center of commercial enterprises mainly manages the distribution of cigarettes. In industrial enterprises, there is a problem of repeated management of cigarettes by the technology center, raw material department, and logistics center. Most of the independent redrying enterprises “work for others.” China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Co., Ltd. realizes that it is necessary to clarify the management functions of cigarettes and establish a smooth supply chain of cigarettes. In accordance with the “three-determination” plan proposed by the National Bureau, China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Co., Ltd. will carry out the physical construction of logistics unincorporated persons, gradually straighten out the organization, and deploy work plans in advance based on the problem orientation.
Whether various industrial enterprises can smoothly connect to the tobacco logistics tracking system, and whether each plant has enough space to house the scanning code hardware; whether there will be pressure after the redrying enterprise adds the tobacco logistics tracking system equipment, these must be considered in advance. It is reported that China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Company is actively coordinating the cooperative production relationship between industrial enterprises and redrying enterprises, and strive to find a balance acceptable to both parties.
For example, the management of the tobacco logistics tracking system is more standardized and the requirements are more refined, and the quality and ability of the users are higher.
The system has automatic coding operation system confirmation and information uploading links, which put forward higher work requirements for staff who are familiar with manual labeling, and are indispensable for the proficient use of equipment. China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Co., Ltd. requires that the production workshop equipped with the scanning code system must carry out relevant centralized training and point-to-point guidance to truly implement the work requirements on the front line of operation.
In addition, after the redrying company establishes the software and hardware of the cigarette scanning code, who will bear the increased costs and when the supporting industry promotion policies will be issued, all need to be answered.
“From the perspective of delivery, the three application systems (industry system, enterprise system, and scanning code system) are mature and suitable for industry promotion, and can be assembled according to the wishes of the enterprise. For industrial enterprises, it can effectively carry out inventory management and flow control. ; For rebake enterprises, only need to install and run the scanning code system and equipment to meet the macro management of the National Bureau.” The project team analyzed the existing difficulties one by one and put forward corresponding countermeasures.
In the first half of 2016, Hongyun Honghe Group carried out the promotion and construction of the tobacco logistics tracking system, and extended the system to various factories in the province, Qujing Tianfu Tobacco Leaf Redrying Co., Ltd., Honghe Tobacco Leaf Redrying Co., Ltd. and Honghe Tobacco Warehouse. In order to cover the full coverage of the system business chain and business model, it also provides a template for the study and reference of other enterprises in the industry.
“We have already initiated related projects. Through this training, we have learned good experience and determined the standards. We will start working when we go back.” Zhou Ruifang, the logistics center of China Tobacco Jiangxi, told reporters.
In the blueprint outlined by the China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Company, in the future, it is possible to further integrate the transaction contract information, monopoly management information, production logistics and other information of cigarettes to create an industry cigarette logistics tracking system that is connected from top to bottom and coordinated with left and right to improve the industry. The informatization application level of raw material management provides support for the raw material guarantee and planned control of cigarette production.
On the road to building an intelligent tobacco logistics, China Tobacco Commercial Logistics Company is exploring the deployment of information technology for tobacco logistics, which not only vigorously promotes the construction of lean logistics, but also fills up the gap in the logistics management field of the tobacco supply chain. The new level has made a due contribution. It is believed that with the joint efforts of the entire industry, China Tobacco will be able to manage a “piece” of cigarettes with a “core”.
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