The current situation of domestic metallurgical industry

The metallurgical industry has been continuously extended from the initial single metal smelting decentralized operation to the upstream mining extraction and downstream metal processing and various products manufacturing, and gradually developed into a group operation mode integrating extraction industry, metal smelting, intermediate products and deep processing products production, trade, logistics, R&D, etc. The competition between individual enterprises has been replaced by the competition between group and group, but in the process of group development The unification of management ideas and the development of information technology construction often lag behind the pace of group development, and sometimes even become a deterrent to the rapid development of enterprise groups.

Challenges in the domestic metallurgical industry (in ERP management):

Integration of finance and business

Unified group management

Satisfaction of industry-specific functions

Duplicate construction, information silos

Solution Introduction

Overview

Based on Microsoft ERP - Microsoft Dynamics AX2012, IWS has developed a targeted informationization solution for the metallurgical industry based on the supply chain, finance as the main line, production, quality and project management. The solution consists of several major sub-systems, such as sales, procurement, inventory, production and planning, formula management, project management, quality management, accounting, fund management, group finance, human resources, business intelligence, etc. It provides secondary development platform and source code, which can achieve seamless integration with DCS system and testing equipment and other hardware data sources, and is oriented to e-commerce applications with flexible data analysis functions.

The solution is based on the full study of the manufacturing and operation management characteristics of the metallurgical industry group, providing a comprehensive and flexible ERP solution for the metallurgical industry to meet the needs of the metallurgical industry group enterprise management.

Applicable customers

Industry enterprises in the whole metallurgical industry chain:

Extraction, mining industry

Primary processing enterprises of metal mineral products

Metal smelting enterprises (wet process, fire process)

Metal products, profile manufacturing enterprises

Metal deep processing enterprises

Rare earth separation

Solutions for mining and extraction industry

Metal smelting industry solutions

Intermediate products and deep-processed products manufacturing industry solutions

Metallurgical enterprise group management

Project management

Mining outsourcing management

Mineral grade management

Mineral product measurement and valuation

Microsoft Project Management Solution combines several Microsoft project management products (Office Project Professional, Project Server and Dynamics AX Project) to create a collaborative project management platform that collects, processes and transmits information to numerous projects within an enterprise group, using The processed information flow guides and controls the material and financial flows of project construction, meeting the different information needs of project management at the decision-making level, management level, executive level and related external relationships.

Project Forecasting and Budgeting

Project Planning and Control

Project Bidding Management

Contract Management

Project Procurement

Project Settlement

Project Activity Management

Project Reporting and Cost Analysis

Solution Architecture Diagram

Typical Case Introduction

Project Background

Xiamen Tungsten (stock code: 600549), mainly engaged in the research, development, production and sales of tungsten smelting products, tungsten powder, cemented carbide, tungsten and molybdenum wire materials, new energy materials, etc., is the largest tungsten and molybdenum product manufacturer and exporter in China, as well as a national key high-tech enterprise, the first batch of demonstration enterprises for developing circular economy in Fujian Province, the most competitive listed company in Fujian Province and the national "Top Ten Most Growing Listed Companies". The company now owns two mines, two tungsten smelting companies, two cemented carbide companies, four tungsten-molybdenum wire companies, one international trade company and one real estate development company, creating a complete industrial chain from tungsten mines → smelting → deep processing, with total assets of 13 billion yuan.

The main products of Xiamen Tungsten include: smelting products series, tungsten powder series, cemented carbide series, tungsten and molybdenum wire series, new energy materials series and so on. The production capacity of tungsten smelting products is 12,000 tons, which is the first in the world; the production capacity of tungsten powder products is 5,000 tons of tungsten powder, 3,500 tons of tungsten carbide powder and 2,000 tons of mixed materials, which is the largest manufacturer and exporter of tungsten powder and tungsten carbide powder in China; the production capacity of cemented carbide is 1,000 tons, and 80% of the products are exported; the production capacity of tungsten molybdenum wire is 1,500 tons of coarse tungsten wire, 300 tons of coarse tungsten wire, 10 billion meters of fine tungsten wire and 3 billion meters of fine molybdenum wire. The production capacity of tungsten and molybdenum wire is 1500 tons of coarse tungsten wire, 300 tons of coarse molybdenum wire, 10 billion meters of fine tungsten wire and 3 billion meters of fine molybdenum wire, accounting for more than 60% of the production and sales volume in China. The sales network of Xiamen Tungsten products are distributed to dozens of countries and regions in Asia, Europe and America, and the annual export volume accounts for more than 35% of the country. It has a number of invention patents, utility model patents and proprietary technologies, and a number of core technologies are at the international leading level.

The information construction of Xiamen Tungsten Group started in the late 1990s, and earlier on, various financial software was adopted, and then the "comprehensive information platform" was custom-developed based on the demand of Haicang parent company. During this period, Xiamen Jinlu Special Alloy Co., Ltd, a key enterprise under Xiamen Tungsten, chose Microsoft ERP AX3.0 in 2006 and achieved good application results. With the passage of time, the management system applied to individual enterprises, whether it is a comprehensive platform or other software products to meet the needs of group development is gradually showing bottlenecks, and the application of each company's information construction budget is also rising year by year. After a year-long investigation and selection, Xiamen Tungsten finally chose Microsoft ERP - Dynamics AX2012.

During the strategic planning stage of the project, Xiamen Tungsten senior management proposed three major objectives and three enhancements for project implementation.

Three objectives:

Integrated financial and business system of each company

A unified sharing platform for the group's finance

Group data analysis and comparison platform

Three enhancements:

Enhance the level of informationization of the company, reduce the gap between companies, reduce the gap with the advanced level

Enhance the company's core business, core processes and management control

Enhance information technology for management

In order to ensure the successful implementation of the project, Xiamen Tungsten deployed more than 50 full-time members from the group headquarters and each molecule to serve the whole group, and more than 200 full-time project implementation staff from each molecule, with all project team leaders at the level of vice president or above in each company, and IWS also sent a team of nearly 30 consultants.

The whole project was carried out in three phases. The first phase was implemented from March 2012 to January 2013, and completed the application of the basic modules of several core extractive enterprises and manufacturing enterprises, including Xiamen Tungsten Haicang Company (four-in-one), Fujian Changting Golden Dragon Rare Earth, Xiamen Honglu Tungsten and Molybdenum, Sanming Ninghua Xingluokeng (tungsten mine), and Chengdu Hongbo Molybdenum. In the second phase, from December 1, 2012 to September 18, 2013, the results of the first phase will be used as a template to be replicated in the remaining enterprises of the whole group. In the third phase, from June 2013, the implementation of group management, analytical reports and business intelligence functions will be started.

Solution

Project Benefits and Summary

Through the implementation, Xiamen Tungsten not only solved the situation that each molecular company's IT information construction was built independently and duplicated before the implementation, strengthened the group's internal communication, reduced manual operation errors, and accelerated the information process on financial management and the decision-making information needed by the management, but also greatly improved Xiamen Tungsten's operation risk avoidance ability, strengthened the group's enterprise management process for each subsidiary, and made It has also greatly improved Xiamen Tungsten's ability to avoid operational risks, strengthened the group's corporate management process for each subsidiary, and made Xiamen Tungsten's market competitiveness much higher.

Summary

Microsoft Dynamics AX for the metallurgical industry allows product customization through additional functionality while maintaining the lowest total cost of ownership (ROI), allowing companies to adapt and upgrade their solutions over time with less risk and less costly investment. Through a highly flexible, layered architecture, Microsoft partners can provide valuable customization and extensions to the Dynamics AX product line to fully meet the unique metallurgical manufacturing requirements.

Microsoft believes that Dynamics AX solutions for the metallurgical industry can help metallurgical companies identify more effective ways to better implement best practices, communicate with their extended supply chain upstream and downstream, use real-time information to gain insight into business conditions, and more quickly seize new business opportunities in the era of big data.