2021 Shandong Province Supply Chain Management Annual Conference Held in Tai'an

Qilu.net On October 24, 2021, the 2021 Shandong Supply Chain Management Annual Conference was grandly held in Taian City, Shandong Province. The conference was supported by the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce and the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, and hosted by the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association, co-organized by the Shandong Modern Supply Chain Research Institute and the Taian Cold Chain Logistics and Supply Chain Association.

Wang Qing, Deputy Director of the Development Research Center of the State Council; Hu Dajian, Assistant President of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing; Peng Xinliang, Director of the Procurement and Supply Chain Professional Committee of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing; Dong Xiaotang, Vice President of the China Vegetable Circulation Association; Wang Hongping, Deputy Director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce; and representatives from enterprises and experts from 16 cities in the province attended the meeting. Representatives from enterprises and relevant experts from 16 cities in the province attended the meeting.

The theme of this annual meeting was "New Era, New Thinking, New Heights: Opening a New Chapter in the Development of Logistics and Supply Chain." The conference actively implemented the work deployment requirements of the State Council and the Provincial Government on accelerating the construction of the supply chain system and promoting supply chain innovation and application, accelerating the construction of a new development pattern with domestic circulation as the main body and mutual promotion of domestic and international dual circulation, promoting the coordinated, standardized, digital, green, and global development of the supply chain, focusing on building a modern circulation system with organic connection between production, supply, and sales and effective interconnection between domestic and foreign trade, and providing strong support and continuous impetus for expanding production and consumption demand, driving economic growth, transforming the development mode, and promoting high-quality economic development in Shandong Province under the new normal of economic development.

At the annual meeting, Wang Hongping, Deputy Director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Commerce, said, Since 2017, the Provincial Department of Commerce has undertaken several national pilot projects, including the construction of the supply chain system, supply chain innovation and application, the construction of a modern supply chain system in the circulation field, and the construction of agricultural product supply chains. Through the pilot projects, the utilization rate of enterprise standard pallets has reached more than 92%, the loading and unloading efficiency has increased by more than 2 times, the loss rate has been reduced by more than one-third, and the comprehensive logistics cost has been reduced by about 20%, with significant results in improving quality, reducing costs, and increasing efficiency. The pilot projects have produced some good experiences and practices in mechanism innovation, policy innovation, and model innovation.

Wang Hongping believes that in the past year, the Provincial Supply Chain Management Association, focusing on industry development, has conducted in-depth enterprise research, actively offered suggestions and advice on the bottlenecks, pain points, and difficulties encountered in industry development, and fully played the role of a bridge and link between the government and enterprises, contributing to Shandong Province's "stabilizing, securing, and strengthening the chain," and building a new development pattern of "dual circulation."

Hu Dajian, Assistant President of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, extended congratulations on behalf of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing to the holding of the annual meeting. He stated that this era is an unprecedented era of transformation, requiring innovation in thought, theory, management, and business. He hopes that the Shandong Supply Chain Management Annual Conference can become an important platform for innovation in the theory and practice of supply chain management in China. The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing will implement the agreement signed with the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association on August 28 last year to establish a work contact mechanism, continue to pay attention to and support the work of the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association, and jointly promote the innovative development of industrial chains and supply chains in Shandong Province. The agreement signed on August 28 last year with the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association to establish a work contact mechanism will be implemented. Continued attention and support will be given to the work of the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association, jointly promoting the innovative development of industrial chains and supply chains in Shandong Province.

Sun Qian, President of the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association, stated in her address that since its establishment, the association, with the strong support of party committees and government departments at all levels, has united and organized members to actively participate in the pilot demonstration of supply chain innovation and application and the construction of the supply chain system in the circulation field, focusing on building a highly efficient county-rural distribution system, strengthening the agricultural product supply chain system, and building a smart and shared supply chain ecosystem. A number of distinctive supply chain development models and excellent achievements have been achieved, playing a positive role in actively responding to the severe challenges brought to the economic and social development of Shandong Province by the complex domestic and international situation and the COVID-19 epidemic. Next, the association will focus on supply chain innovation and development, using industrial integration as a link, focusing on building deep integration and innovation of the modern logistics industry and modern circulation industry, and using the promotion of innovative and standardized development of supply chain finance as a breakthrough. The association will strengthen its service functions, improve its service level, strengthen standardized management, and work hard to effectively play the role of the association, opening up a new situation for its work.

The conference also invited Wang Qing, Deputy Director of the Market Economy Research Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council, to give a presentation on "Supply Chain Innovation for Agricultural Products under Consumption Transformation"; Peng Xinliang, Director of the Procurement and Supply Chain Professional Committee of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, gave a presentation on "The Development Background of Modern Supply Chains and the Development Trend of Global Supply Chains in the Post-Epidemic Era"; and Liu Weihua, Director of the Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Tianjin University, and Vice President of the China Logistics Society, gave a presentation on "Digital Supply Chain Driving Smart Operation Practice." These presentations provided new ideas and work inspiration.

At the meeting, Hu Dajian, Assistant President of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, announced that the first national senior training class for supply chain entrepreneurs, jointly organized by the School of Business, Renmin University of China, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, and the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association, will soon be launched in Shandong. The training class will primarily be held at Renmin University of China in Beijing, supplemented by local study tours. The course will last 1-1.5 years, with classes held once every 1-2 months, each lasting 2-3 days, totaling approximately 18-21 days. The target audience is supply chain company leaders, senior executives, and leaders of logistics/procurement supply chain companies in large and medium-sized enterprises.

In the signing ceremony, the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association and the Shandong Geographical Indication Industry Association signed a strategic cooperation agreement to build a "Shandong Geographical Indication Product Supply Chain Platform"; and the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association and Dongfeng Liuzhou Automobile Co., Ltd. signed a strategic cooperation agreement on aspects such as the customization, centralized procurement, and leasing of logistics vehicles.

At the meeting, the Shandong Supply Chain Management Association called on member enterprises to jointly launch "Shandong Commercial Joint Distribution Network Alliance." The aim is to use modern information technologies such as big data, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and digital twins to build an integrated supply chain service platform, adopt joint distribution, integrate market resources, reduce logistics links, improve standardization levels, reduce logistics costs, and optimize the distribution network to improve the efficiency of logistics enterprises and the entire society's logistics.