[Supply Chain] - [For supermarket supplier management] - SAP behind
[Background]
With more and more international supermarkets operating in China, we have a good chance to totally excel the current financial software in China. People start to realise how useful our system is, as our software can fully support the business operation of our clients.
There’s no one in China but us who can provide software to enable supermarket suppliers compare, cross check and identify their business data with Western software systems.
[Efforts]
As Metro’s business management has always been standardised and regular, we take them as the idealist survey object. We have been work on getting closer to them in all aspects since 2000 to improve the adaptability, flexibility and accuracy of our software system.
These efforts enable both the supermarket and the supermarket suppliers to work on the same supply chain from placing the order to the final payment, including many business details and handling of irregular issues.
[High recognition]
From Metro
When our clients took the bill printed by our software to check with Metro, Metro’s finance department always treat them very seriously showing their approval and recognition.
From our customers
Many of our customers have been progressed from Metro’s suppliers in Shanghai to the suppliers in Eastern China and eventually suppliers in whole China, because their excellent business collaboration with Metro.
We studied Metro Beijing in 2008, finding out that 35% of its products came from Shanghai suppliers, who are our clients. Meanwhile, Beijing local suppliers only took less than 25% of the share.
From Metro IT
"Do you have anyone working in Metro? Why do you know so much about our system?" asked someone. He used to work in Metro Shanghai as an IT Manager and participated in the SAP implementation in Metro.
"No, none of us worked there." We answered. "But your system and your suppliers’ systems are two natural-born opposite sites. They are like the left and the right. You see one, you know the other."