On September 12, the "Entering SIASUN Robot and Equipment Manufacturing Industry Digital Transformation Forum" jointly organized by Kingdee and Shenyang SIASUN Robot & Automation Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "SIASUN") was successfully concluded in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Many industry experts and scholars, as well as enterprise managers gathered together to discuss hot topics such as localization substitution, digital transformation, AI+, new-type productivity, integration of business and finance, and new generation EBC in the equipment manufacturing industry. They shared insights on how equipment manufacturing enterprises can achieve high-quality development through innovation and explored paths for digital transformation in the equipment manufacturing industry, jointly building a new future for China's equipment manufacturing industry.

Forum scene

Attendees included Zhang Jin, President of SIASUN Robot; Cao Jianwei, Operations Director of SIASUN Robot; Zhang Tianzhu, CFO of SIASUN Robot; Zhu Duoxian, Chairman of Beijing Languang Innovation Technology Co., Ltd.; Zhang Yong, President of Kingdee Group; Zhao Yanxi, Executive Vice President of Kingdee China and President of the Large Enterprise Business Unit; Zhang Jiafeng, Deputy General Manager of Kingdee China's High-end Manufacturing Business Unit; Zhang Tiantong, Deputy General Manager of Kingdee China's Kingdee EAS Cloud & Kingdee Cloud Suite Solutions Business Unit, and other experts, scholars, and enterprise managers.

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Reconstructing the "Chinese Speed" of Digital Transformation

Currently, smart manufacturing has become a key force for countries worldwide to accelerate industrial upgrading, stimulate economic growth, and establish new competitive advantages. It is also a primary means for various industries to achieve quality, efficiency, and power transformations. As the core supporting equipment for smart manufacturing, robots represent an important battleground for major powers to participate in the global industrial division of labor and compete for positions in the global industrial chain. Data shows that China produced 430,000 industrial robots in 2023, making it the world's largest industrial robot market for 11 consecutive years. In the past three years, the share of newly installed robots in the global market has exceeded 50%. Industrial robots are applied in 71 major industries of the national economy, becoming a significant force in the global robotics industry.

At the scene, Zhang Jin, President of SIASUN Robot, delivered a speech at the forum. Facing the new round of transformation opportunities in the global robotics industry, robotics enterprises must not only adhere to independent innovation but also leverage cutting-edge technologies and tools to break through traditional architectures and models. Through digital transformation, they can achieve localization upgrades and move towards high-quality development. SIASUN and Kingdee have collaborated closely, achieving breakthroughs in management informatization, integration of business and finance, and industrial Internet platform construction. Leveraging Kingdee Cloud Sky as the technical foundation and Kingdee Cloud Suite as the application support, they have broken down barriers between systems and built an integrated, intelligent, and digital operation and management platform. Through an independently controllable and cloud-native enterprise-level cloud service platform based on the EBC management philosophy, Kingdee has helped SIASUN fully replace foreign ERP systems such as SAP, addressing many persistent issues in R&D, manufacturing, planning, and organization, and supporting core business operations such as make-to-order production and project management.

In the future, we look forward to further strengthening cooperation between the two parties, leveraging their respective advantages to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, and jointly building a multi-win, sustainable, and resilient industrial ecosystem. Together, we will make new and greater contributions to comprehensively advancing the construction of a powerful country and the great cause of national rejuvenation with Chinese-style modernization.

Zhang Jin, President of SIASUN Robot, delivers a speech at the conference

In his speech, Zhang Yong, President of Kingdee Group, said that digitization is a powerful tool for enterprises to achieve high-quality development, helping them effectively reduce costs and increase efficiency while facilitating innovation and transformation in their business models. Kingdee and SIASUN have collaborated closely in areas such as business-finance integration, management transformation, and the industrial Internet, jointly overcoming challenges and achieving localization substitution of the ERP system, supporting SIASUN in achieving its "4128" results.

This year marks the beginning of Kingdee's strategy to become a world-class enterprise. In recent years, Kingdee has assisted numerous industry benchmarks, including Shandong Heavy Industry, Shagang Group, Tongwei Co., Ltd., China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co., Ltd., CRRC, Hisense, Huawei, and China Merchants Group, in upgrading and reconstructing their digital capabilities. Kingdee has also helped over 200 large enterprises achieve localization substitution. Half of China's Top 500 enterprises use Kingdee's products and services. Kingdee continues to demonstrate through its strength that Chinese software has the product quality and delivery capabilities to serve world-class enterprises. We look forward to collaborating with more enterprises to advance towards excellence through digital governance and leverage independently controllable digital technologies to create new-type productivity, supporting enterprises in achieving high-quality development.

Zhang Yong, President of Kingdee Group, delivers a speech at the conference

In his trend insights titled "Taking the Development of New-type Productivity as an Opportunity to Actively Promote the Digital Transformation of Equipment Enterprises," Zhu Duoxian, Chairman of Beijing Languang Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., elaborated on the importance and necessity of accelerating the construction of new-type productivity and digital transformation in the manufacturing industry against the backdrop of modernizing the industrial system. He provided a reference model and construction path for the digital transformation of manufacturing enterprises across the entire chain, from digital R&D, networked operations, intelligent production, remote services, to intelligent decision-making. Finally, he expressed his hope for continued in-depth cooperation with Kingdee to jointly promote high-quality digital transformation in the equipment manufacturing industry.

Zhu Duoxian, Chairman of Beijing Languang Innovation Technology Co., Ltd., delivers trend insights

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Supporting SIASUN in the Battle for Transformation

Shenyang, known as the "Ministry of Equipment of the Republic," is an essential industrial base and technological innovation center in China, renowned for its strength and influence in equipment manufacturing, automobiles, aerospace, electronics, and other fields. SIASUN, originating from this city, is inherently infused with the spirit of digital innovation. As a national robotics industrialization base, SIASUN has stood at the forefront of the industry for 24 years, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and high-quality products to participate in significant national projects such as the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge and showcase China's smart manufacturing prowess on international stages like the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics closing ceremony.

In his strategic thinking titled "Digital SIASUN, Striving for Excellence – The Digital Transformation and Reform of SIASUN," Cao Jianwei, Operations Director of SIASUN Robot, shared that from the outset of building its information system, SIASUN determined that everything must be business-oriented and grounded in reality. With Kingdee's support, SIASUN constructed an ERP system that permeates the entire business funding and budgeting process, ensuring that all business outcomes are ultimately reflected in financial statements. Such a comprehensive financial system is truly systematic.

Furthermore, in the new era, enterprises must shift from an organization-centric to a process-centric model, mining data value, and achieving data-driven decision-making by analyzing collective behavior to forecast and plan for individuals. SIASUN and Kingdee began their collaboration in 2015, evolving from acquaintanceship to trust, mutual benefit, and inseparable partnership. Looking ahead, we are confident that our joint efforts will usher in a significant victory in digital transformation.

Cao Jianwei, Operations Director of SIASUN Robot, delivers strategic thinking

In his strategic thinking titled "Integration of Business and Finance, Value Creation – Thoughts on SIASUN's Financial Digital Transformation," Zhang Tianzhu, CFO of SIASUN Robot, shared that under a complex management model, financial management faces four major challenges: supporting group strategy, driving financial transformation, enhancing business-finance efficiency, and achieving cost reduction and efficiency enhancement. To address these challenges, SIASUN has chosen to leverage a new generation of intelligent platforms to achieve financial value creation and transformation, upgrading both business-finance control and platform construction. In terms of platform upgrades, SIASUN has built a unified foundation for its financial digital platform based on Kingdee Cloud Sky and Kingdee Cloud Suite, enabling integration and fusion between business and financial systems. In terms of business-finance upgrades, SIASUN has achieved the "4128" capability results, supporting the achievement of corporate operating objectives and full value chain management.

Zhang Tianzhu noted that amidst the wave of localization substitution, SIASUN, with its rich experience in smart manufacturing and Kingdee's independently controllable enterprise cloud-native architecture platform and products, has created a representative success story of localization substitution through proactive change. Going forward, SIASUN and Kingdee will mutually support each other's ecosystems, jointly building ecological platforms and industry applications in the field of smart manufacturing. They will provide comprehensive solutions for smart manufacturing and digital transformation to more Chinese manufacturing enterprises, fostering a spirit of endeavor in Northeast China's innovative soil and jointly writing a new chapter of revitalization and breakthrough.

Zhang Tianzhu, CFO of SIASUN Robot, delivers strategic thinking

Chu Xiaochen, Director of the Industrial Robot Planning and Material Control Department at SIASUN Robot, shared detailed insights into solutions and value creation for the business pain point of "lean planning under the previous management model." Facing challenges such as frequent plan changes and difficulties in maintaining production continuity under the trimodal model, SIASUN leveraged Kingdee Cloud Sky's integration platform to centrally manage heterogeneous systems, optimize over 20 manufacturing processes, achieve closed-loop business management and highly automated workflows, and enhance timely delivery rates. Secondly, by integrating end-to-end business scenarios, SIASUN addressed long-standing cross-system operation and verification issues. Thirdly, by constructing a five-tier planning system, SIASUN improved delivery timeliness and maximized capacity utilization. This digital transformation helped SIASUN establish traceability and matching from sales orders to production work orders to cost accounting documents, significantly enhancing planning collaboration efficiency.

Chu Xiaochen noted that as SIASUN's long-term partner, Kingdee understands the pain points during SIASUN's digital transformation phase and ensures smooth end-to-end process implementation across heterogeneous systems through its technologically advanced, stable, secure, and scalable platform. Kingdee's exceptional localized delivery capabilities and flexible product assembly have provided an exceptional experience for SIASUN users, accelerating subsequent rollouts. The collaborative efforts of both teams have resulted in a successful chapter in digital transformation.

Chu Xiaochen, Director of the Industrial Robot Planning and Material Control Department at SIASUN Robot, shares practical insights

Xu Yan, General Manager of the Financial Management Center at SIASUN Robot, shared insights into SIASUN's financial digital transformation practices. She noted that guided by the SASAC's guidelines, SIASUN has constructed a forward-looking intelligent financial digital system from both horizontal and vertical perspectives. Horizontally, the system connects various business systems and integrates financial systems to promote "high integration" and avoid data silos. Vertically, it permeates all levels of subsidiaries, achieving standardized management from headquarters to business units and strengthening the extension of the "group standardization" antenna .

Based on Kingdee Cloud Suite, SIASUN successfully constructed a "multidimensional, business-finance integrated" accounting system, establishing mechanisms for expense control, tax and risk prevention, asset lifecycle management, efficient fund collection and payment centers, seamless business-finance integration, and a comprehensive business traceability system. These enhancements have comprehensively improved the intelligence and efficiency of financial accounting, empowering financial roles with strategic enhancement and value creation.

Xu Yan, General Manager of the Financial Management Center at SIASUN Robot, shares practical insights

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Jointly Stimulating New-type Productivity in the New Generation

At the forum, Zhang Jiafeng, Deputy General Manager of Kingdee China's High-end Manufacturing Business Unit, delivered a keynote speech titled "From ERP to EBC: The Localization Journey of Large-scale Equipment Manufacturing." In the EBC era, Kingdee Cloud stands out for its safer, more reliable, and intelligent leading qualities. In May, it pioneered the release of an integrated enterprise-level AI solution, empowering more enterprises to become world-class. In terms of EBC value innovation in the equipment manufacturing industry, Kingdee Cloud Suite's manufacturing cube supports multiple manufacturing modes, embedding modules such as manufacturing cloud, intelligent collaboration cloud, supply chain cloud, supply chain collaboration cloud, management accounting cloud, and financial cloud. Relying on Kingdee Cloud Sky, it extensively connects industry ecosystems to build integrated industry solutions. Kingdee Cloud Suite focuses on the full value chain digital scenarios of manufacturing enterprises, providing eight core business solutions to enhance their digital capabilities.

Amid the wave of localization substitution, Kingdee Cloud has helped over 200 large enterprises, including SIASUN, Weichai Lovol, CRRC, China Tobacco Yunnan Industrial Co., Ltd., Shaanxi Automotive Group, and others, achieve localization substitution and upgrade their ERP systems through gradual substitution and overall switching models. Numerous implementation practices have proven that Kingdee Cloud EBC is the best choice for ERP localization substitution.

Zhang Jiafeng, Deputy General Manager of Kingdee China's High-end Manufacturing Business Unit, delivers a keynote speech

Finally, the host, Zhang Tiantong, Deputy General Manager of Kingdee China's Kingdee EAS Cloud & Kingdee Cloud Suite Solutions Business Unit, led a roundtable discussion with Cao Jianwei, Zhang Tianzhu, Zhu Duoxian, Zhang Jiafeng, and other guests and attendees. They exchanged ideas on hot topics such as digital transformation, localization substitution, new-type productivity, integration of business and finance, value creation, cost reduction and efficiency enhancement, and the new generation of EBC in the equipment manufacturing industry. They offered insights and suggestions on how to stimulate new-type productivity and accelerate the independent controllability of core software in the equipment manufacturing industry, jointly leading the high-quality development of digital China and empowering Chinese enterprises to rise globally.