[Health care products] - [For components supply management] - SAP behind
[The start]
Johnson & Johnson Shanghai is responsible for manufacturing all of its products sold in China. Their machines can’t afford to stop because of its high production demands. Therefore, the requirements to its machines are as high as aircrafts.
SAP software is used for production management including the material control and the shift management, etc.
However, SAP can’t cover the management of thousands of machine components, because they involve less money but change a lot.
Johnson & Johnson found us in 2002. After comparing our software with an American component management software for one and a half year, they locked on us.
[Reality]
Before us, Johnson & Johnson never installed any Chinese software system in their company. They only use SAP and some other English software.
Our software is managing millions Yuan of component funds and thousands types of components, and we are doing well.
At the end of every month, some data will be exported from our software to SAP, from the purchase order plan to the invoice received for components procurement, for SAP to arrange the rest.
[Episode]
I attended a Microsoft conference in 2005, and talked with an American scientist about Johnson & Johnson. He is a mathematician and physician, who has contribute a lot to Internet.
He asked me:"Have you ever been to America?" I said:"No, not yet."
"Then how do you know these things?" he asked. "Imagine." I said. :)
In fact Shanghai has the most complicated business environment with changeable business types and business persons from all over the world and all around China. We have to work very hard and be fully committed to our research and development.
Therefore, large multinational companies are just one of our many researches.