On December 17, Ningbo Nanfang Plastic Mould Co., Ltd. and Fangtian Software held a kick-off meeting for the intelligent cloud ERP+APS+MES platform project to comprehensively promote the information and digital upgrade of the enterprise. The kick-off meeting was highly valued by both parties. Chairman Meng, General Manager Yang, Vice President Deng, Vice President Li of the Production Department, Vice President Li of the Finance Department, etc. of Nanfang Mould, Xia Yingfu, head of Fangtian Software B9 Division, Wang Changhong, director of the Project Delivery Center, and project team members of both parties attended the kick-off meeting.

Ningbo Nanfang Plastic Mould Co., Ltd. was established in 1996 and is a manufacturer specializing in large and medium-sized automobile plastic moulds. Over the past 25 years, Nanfang Mould has always adhered to the management philosophy of "customer-centric, quality-oriented, innovation-driven, and talent-based". Through unremitting efforts, the company has gradually achieved standardized management, clear decision-making, streamlined operation, standardized quality, and sound systems, and has successfully developed into a professional plastic mould manufacturing company integrating design and development, production and manufacturing, and sales services.

The company covers an area of ​​16,650 square meters, with a newly built large-scale constant temperature processing workshop, a beautiful and comfortable working environment. The core products produced by the company are large and medium-sized automobile plastic molds with extremely high technical content, covering key parts of the car body such as bumpers, grilles, instrument panels, door panels, ABC columns, and central channels. Among them, the bumper internal parting technology, instrument panel micro-foaming technology, door panel gas-assisted molding technology, and large two-color molds have reached the world's first-class level.

After experiencing a continuous decline in growth in 2018 and 2019, the automotive industry has entered a new normal of slow growth, and the automotive mold industry is facing difficulties. Looking back at 2020, the chill has not yet subsided, but new opportunities are brewing under the sluggish market performance. Looking forward to the future, transformation breakthroughs and innovative attempts will be implemented in different links of the automotive value chain, and automotive molds will enter a new stage of accelerated transformation and upgrading.

In response to fierce market competition, Ningbo Nanfang Mould began to think: How to standardize business processes? How to quickly deliver orders? How to achieve paperless and instant reporting? How to improve the automation and integration of financial and business data accounting?

Faced with new management thinking, Ningbo Nanfang Mould, after multiple investigations and careful selection, chose to work with Fangtian Software to launch the intelligent cloud ERP+APS+MES project, to promote lean management through comprehensive informatization and digitalization, in order to further standardize business operation processes, change offline business operation modes, realize financial and business integration, and improve data transmission efficiency and accuracy.

Chairman Meng of Southern Mould attended the project launch meeting in person and expressed to all members the determination of Southern Mould to carry out the information and digital management transformation. She asked the project team members to show the courage to change, devote themselves to the implementation of this information project, focus on the process and results, build a first-class execution team, believe that they will reap fruitful results after hardships, and make a good start for the construction of Chongqing factory in 2021.

Deputy General Manager Li, project leader of Southern Mould, said that the information and digitalization project team of Southern Mould was officially established on the day of the kick-off meeting. The project organizational structure was clarified, departmental responsibilities were implemented, the implementation system and completion node time of the information project were announced, and the information project management assessment standards were promulgated, and the reward and punishment regulations during the project promotion process were analyzed.

Wang Changhong, Project Director of Fangtian Software, gave a detailed introduction to the future work plan and core work of the Fangtian project team. He pointed out that the attention of the company's senior leaders and the active participation of all employees will be the key points of project implementation. It provides a clear direction for the implementation of the entire information project and looks forward to close cooperation and collaboration between the project teams of both parties.

Realizing information and digital management is a new step for Ningbo Nanfang Mould to move towards intelligent management. We hope that with the joint efforts of both teams, the three-dimensional advancement will be achieved, with management informationization at the top and on-site automation at the bottom, to build a unique Nanfang corporate culture. Fangtian Software will also integrate its superior resources and fully provide information and management support, adding another milestone to the innovative development of Nanfang enterprises.