China Southern Power Grid accelerates the construction of a new ecosystem for the power digital supply chain

China Energy Storage Network News: "China Southern Power Grid will strive to give full play to the leading role of central enterprises in the operation of the industrial chain and supply chain, and promote the energy and power industry to move towards higher quality, higher level and higher efficiency. Continue to optimize the business environment, stimulate a broader cluster effect, and serve economic and social development." On November 25, Meng Zhenping, chairman of China Southern Power Grid, stated at the company's first supply chain partner conference that as a backbone central enterprise in the field of energy and power, it will insist on innovation as the primary driving force, seize the commanding heights of global energy technology, and help build an independent, controllable, safe and reliable industrial chain and supply chain.

The reporter learned that at this supply chain partner conference, more than 100 suppliers jointly launched an initiative to jointly build a modern energy and power industry chain and supply chain, smooth the energy cycle, accelerate the development of a modern industrial system, and help build a new development pattern.

Innovative advantages to improve the level of supply chain modernization

“以电网、发电集团为首的能源企业和核心装备制造企业，需要协同发力，扩大自主可控元器件和装备应用，优化应用环境，促进国内元器件厂商和装备制造企业投入技术研发和产品升级，建立国内国际双循环供应链体系。”中国工程院院士沈国荣指出，在当前复杂的国际形势与双循环战略背景下，电力行业保障供应链安全面临新挑战和新要求。

沈国荣认为，目前国外企业在高端器件领域有优势，该类企业面向全球市场，需求和应用比较广泛。当前国内电力行业很难独立推动元器件厂家产品技术和质量提升。“电力行业需求设备种类广泛（IT类、辅控类），国产化在齐套性方面面临巨大挑战。”

In recent years, the Southern Grid has insisted on promoting joint innovation of the supply chain and industrial chain based on the needs of the power grid, promoting the independent control of key equipment and core technologies, guiding the continuous improvement of the level of domestic electrical equipment, and continuously improving the modernization level of the industrial chain and supply chain. For example, the Kunliulong DC project is the world's first ±800 kV ultra-high voltage multi-terminal flexible DC project, and has created 19 world firsts. The project is led by the Southern Grid, and a scientific research team has been formed in conjunction with scientific research institutes, universities, and equipment manufacturers to tackle key equipment and core technologies and successfully develop core engineering equipment. At the same time, the engineering supply chain field has innovatively adopted "cloud supervision" and "multimodal transport of large-scale transportation" and other methods to effectively guarantee supply during the COVID-19 epidemic.

In addition, through strengthening collaboration, Southern Grid has actively participated in the construction of new infrastructure such as the Internet of Things, 5G, artificial intelligence, and the Industrial Internet. It has increased joint efforts in key equipment and "bottleneck" technologies, promoted innovation and integration among upstream, midstream and downstream, large, medium and small enterprises, and focused on developing new technologies, new models, new products, and new business formats to improve the overall efficiency of the innovation chain.

Green supply promotes optimal allocation of resources

如何提升电力产业链的抗风险能力？沈国荣认为，要在供应链上寻求优质的供应商，建立长期稳定的战略合作关系，共同提升抗风险能力；大力扶持具有自主创新能力、对在行业具有领先优势的供应商，给予政策支持；重视具备多专业融合能力的供应商，发挥其综合解决问题的能力，提高供应链效率。

"In the supply chain partner group, China Southern Power Grid, as the initiator, has advantages in market, capital, talent and management, and is the natural chain leader of the supply chain partner group. To be a good chain leader, I suggest learning from Haier Group's experience in Internet transformation and managing the partner group according to the Internet platform model." Tang Yuan, deputy secretary-general of the Chinese Academy of Policy Sciences and former director of the State Council Research Office, said that we should not engage in technological monopoly, leave the market for backward technology, always welcome advanced and disruptive technologies, use good technology regardless of its origin, and establish a good technology screening, identification and promotion mechanism.

It is understood that China Southern Power Grid actively explores the sustainable development management and practice of the supply chain, integrates the concept of optimal cost of the entire life cycle of assets and the lowest cost of the entire supply chain, creates the "Internet + power procurement" model; builds an efficient and convenient logistics system to achieve accurate docking with partners' production plans and customer needs. The company has initially established a two-level operation monitoring platform, bringing together the material and transportation resources of the entire network, promoting centralized storage and intelligent allocation, and realizing visual management of logistics; steadily advancing the supply chain financial business, actively taking measures to expand financing channels for upstream and downstream enterprises, releasing 720 million yuan in deposits, participating in 8,600 suppliers, saving 5 million yuan in costs, and effectively solving the problem of financing difficulties and high financing costs for small and medium-sized enterprises.

In addition, the State Grid Corporation of China is also actively building an intensive and standardized green procurement system, promoting LCC (life cycle cost) procurement, computer-assisted bid evaluation, and electronicization of the entire procurement process, promoting accurate matching of procurement needs, intelligent management and control of bidding and procurement, full tracking of digital contracts, as well as the linkage and aggregation of procurement resources and optimization and upgrading of procurement models.

Mutual benefit and win-win, smooth energy circulation

In recent years, China Southern Power Grid has promoted business cooperation covering the entire process of energy and power production, transmission and consumption, effectively allocated upstream and downstream enterprise resources such as power grid planning, design, construction, and equipment supply, and built a good industrial chain and supply chain cooperation ecology. The company actively implements the "Belt and Road" initiative, relying on key overseas projects and working with domestic partners to "go global" unswervingly; increase investment in smart cities, data center operations, communication resource sharing, electric vehicle charging infrastructure, etc., to magnify the value of power grid resources.

So far, China Southern Power Grid has achieved real-time interconnection and interoperability with 247 upstream and downstream suppliers and logistics companies in core business scenarios such as contract performance and logistics management, involving more than 900 business data field interactions, and has initially extended the power grid capacity to upstream and downstream enterprises. Taking the electric vehicle ecosystem as an example, China Southern Power Grid has built an electric vehicle charging service platform. Through the integration of the energy network, charging network, vehicle network, and Internet of Things, it effectively supports the application of four-network integration business and the construction of the ecosystem. Currently, the platform service has covered 26 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities).

In the future, China Southern Power Grid will work with its supply chain partners to jointly create a new supply chain ecosystem that is cross-border integrated, open and shared, and co-existing and prosperous. At the same time, it will increase the coordination of internal and external resources, actively explore new models, new scenarios, and new business formats such as e-commerce procurement, integrated logistics services, and supply chain finance, support cost reduction and efficiency improvement and integrated innovation in all links of the supply chain, and promote the construction of a mutually beneficial and win-win industrial supply chain ecosystem.

"We will continue to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation with upstream and downstream companies, focus on cultivating strategic suppliers and backbone leading enterprises with driving role, and effectively enhance the driving effect of industrial agglomeration." Meng Zhenping said that the State Grid will work with its partners to build an ecosystem with shared interests and shared risks, jointly stabilize the supply chain, strengthen the industrial chain, enhance the value chain, and achieve optimal allocation of resources on a global scale.