At present, the development of traditional manufacturing industries has entered a bottleneck, and once the advantages have now become a stumbling block to the development of enterprises, and even pushed the enterprise to the edge of bankruptcy. Driven by Industry 4.0, along with the integration of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and digitization, traditional manufacturing companies have greatly improved their awareness of the supply chain and realized the importance of the supply chain, so it plays a role in intelligent manufacturing. What does it do?

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What will happen to the supply chain under
Industry 4.0?
At present, the development of traditional manufacturing industries has entered a bottleneck,
and once the advantages have now become a stumbling block to the development of enterprises,
and even pushed the enterprise to the edge of bankruptcy. Driven by Industry 4.0, along with the
integration of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and
digitization, traditional manufacturing companies have greatly improved their awareness of the
supply chain and realized the importance of the supply chain, so it plays a role in intelligent
manufacturing. What does it do?
The Internet of Things has made people more aware of the interconnection of all things. Facilities,
inventory, transportation, and information are all the structures of traditional manufacturing
supply chains. The degree of interconnection determines the degree of intelligence. Therefore,
the development of smart supply chains into a smart manufacturing—smart supply chain
ecosystem An important engine, the supply chain has begun to support the establishment of core
competitiveness.
Intelligent manufacturing is the commanding height, breakthrough point and main direction of
manufacturing innovation-driven, transformation and upgrading. It needs to operate based on
the intelligent supply chain environment. Essentially, "Made in China 2025" requires basic
manufacturing intelligence, intelligent product/equipment, intelligent manufacturing process,
and intelligent manufacturing mode transformation.
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According to manufacturing's understanding, the development process of the smart supply chain
can basically be divided into five stages: primary supply chain, responsive supply chain, reliable
supply chain, flexible supply chain, and smart supply chain. In the primary supply chain stage,
companies usually arrange production and delivery according to budgets. There is no full-time
supply chain department to coordinate production and sales. With the development of
enterprises, a supply chain responding to orders has emerged. At this time, in addition to
focusing on direct costs, customer interaction is also considered to respond quickly to customer
orders. However, the supply chain structure at this stage has also caused customer service. Lack
of stability.
Reliable supply chain emphasizes the coordination of demand planning and business execution,
pays attention to the needs, service, and satisfaction of end customers, and comprehensively
develops demand forecasting, production and sales coordination, and cross-department
collaboration. Compared with a reliable supply chain, a flexible supply chain is actually a fully
integrated supply chain. This type of supply chain strategy focuses on the overall cost of the
supply chain. It advocates full cross-department collaboration, flexibility, and lean supply chain
capabilities. Lean agility is an important feature.
Driven by demand, smart supply chains are end-to-end supply chain operations driven by
end-demand plans. A smart supply chain emphasizes information sharing and interaction with

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customers and suppliers.
Demand-driven
The thinking mode of the smart supply chain is bound to be point-oriented, emphasizing the
overall nature. Enterprises will pay more attention to the accuracy and effectiveness of customer
needs. Manufacturing companies have more sense of time and existence. They no longer hide
behind agents or corporate sales departments to provide products passively. Instead, they
actively analyze and provide services, and invite customers to conduct experiential development,
test customer requirements, and meet compliance. Customer's personalized product and service
model integration to ensure that the product or service is "sticky" to the customer, which in turn
promotes the iterative upgrade of products, product design, and services. At the same time, the
supply chain can also perform self-feedback and self-compensation, thereby intelligently iterating
and upgrading.
In the future, the smart supply chain strategy will also enable companies to place greater
emphasis on the value-added requirements of the supply chain process, attach more importance
to lean manufacturing based on the entire value chain, and place greater emphasis on platform
functions with manufacturing companies as the starting point. The smart supply chain starts with
lean production and drives all aspects of lean logistics, lean procurement, and lean distribution.
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In the process of manufacturing transformation and upgrading, manufacturing technology,
management technology and technical consulting have grown together. The core of management
technology is supply chain planning, and the information flow formed by supply chain planning
and the physical logistics formed by supply chain execution together form the value of a smart
supply chain. The supply chain plan gives soul to intelligent manufacturing. The factory is not only
cold automation equipment, but has nerves (information transmission), pulsation (rhythm
management), and blood (flow control). The perfect combination of information flow and
physical logistics ultimately achieves the most efficient Management goals.
The growth path of the smart supply chain is inseparable from the coordinated interaction of
logistics and information flow. Industry insiders said that a plan for intelligent manufacturing
needs to meet the needs of production operations and technology iterations in the next 3 to 5
years, and it is necessary to define the development path of each stage and the requirements of
step-by-step implementation. .
The future development direction of logistics is "smart, connected, highly flexible, transparent,
fast, and effective". Logistics activities need to meet the digitization and network of the entire
process. In this process, informatization will play a role in The decisive role, especially the
application of big data.
Enterprises need to restructure individualized intelligent strategies, sort out strategies to achieve
logic, and then analyze the market and product flow trends to refine the differentiated
competitive capabilities of smart supply chains. At the same time, coordinate the big data
strategy to restructure the intelligent supply chain platform, establish simulation capabilities and
supply chain early warning.
Enterprises in the supply chain, especially the main chain enterprises, integrate virtual machines,
data storage and display, decision-making systems, and production facilities through a virtual

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network-physical physical system. Through the integration of information computing and
manufacturing technologies such as the Internet of Things, service computing, and cloud
computing, a smart supply chain platform is formed to realize the full system, full life cycle,
comprehensive perception, interconnection, decision making, control, and execution of software
and hardware manufacturing resources and capabilities. And service, and then realize the
integration, sharing, coordination and optimization of people, machines, things and information,
and finally form an ecological circle.
Where do people go from here?
With the promotion of Industry 4.0 and the introduction of new technologies such as 5G and
artificial intelligence, downstream industrial manufacturing companies continue to transform
production lines, optimize business processes, and management models. Various advanced
intelligent equipment has been invested in factories and started to be digitalized and networked.
With the development of automation and intelligence, intelligent manufacturing has become a
development trend, and unmanned factories will become the norm. Then the whole society will
usher in a brand new change. Where do people go from here?
Digitization originated from the third industrial revolution and covered the fields of digital,
physics, and biology. In the digital age, automation already exists. Automation equipment can be
found everywhere in workshops and factories, but it still needs manual participation in some
links and processes to assist. The fourth industrial revolution, in fact, is baptism and sublimation
of the third industrial revolution. It will not require human participation to achieve full
automation, such as Gree's unmanned factory.
The production speed is greatly improved under full automation, the fault tolerance rate of the
product is greatly reduced, and the entire production process will become simpler. For
enterprises, it is more important to achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement. Under
the premise of guaranteed product quality, consumers will also be able to enjoy a higher quality
product experience, and at the same time, the efficiency of transportation and distribution will
be greatly improved. In general, the era of Industry 4.0 will be a more efficient logistics system
and the era of a complete supply chain.
Industry 4.0 is a double-edged sword, which promotes the transformation and upgrading of
manufacturing, but it also brings some problems. For example, China is a labor-intensive country,
and garment factories and electronics factories are a few choices for many ordinary workers. So
where do they go after the advent of artificial intelligence? Today's talent market college students
are still fighting hard, let alone these ordinary laborers. The trend of technological development
is definitely irresistible, and problems are inevitable, but we cannot let it go. This is a problem
that must be faced and resolved in the development of the times. The substantive purpose of the
development of science and technology is to better serve humankind. If the interests of people
cannot be guaranteed, the rapid development of science and technology is just an upside-down.
Based on long-term development, facing such a problem, we must also face up to difficulties. The
future of machine substitution is the trend, so it is necessary to improve the output of mental
labor. Therefore, it is necessary to provide more opportunities for ordinary workers to learn new
skills and change from mechanical manual workers to flexible and flexible mental workers. Only in
this way can we truly promote social development and human progress.