Zhuhai Aipujing Software Co., Ltd.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there. What does your business do and what is your role at your company?

TDMALL (Group) Co., Ltd. is a multinational enterprise with investment holding as its core business. Its industries involve FMCG, Health Care, Color Printing Packaging and Creative Media, Real Estate Development, Resources & Environment, Financial Services, etc. TDMALL (Group) Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as TDMall) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tianda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. through Tianda Chinese Medicine Co., Ltd.

I serve as the Manager of the Information Department and I am responsible for the company's digital planning and construction as well as daily operation & maintenance.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What business challenge were you trying to address with the vendor? What is the main reason you hired the service provider?

In the face of the severe situation of the COVID-19 epidemic in the world, TDMALL gave full play to the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine, continuously contributing anti-epidemic materials to the epidemic prevention at home and abroad.  Meanwhile, TDMALL explored and carried out the Chinese medicine model combining "traditional Chinese medicine +" and "artificial intelligence" based on the current situation of industry development and its own development needs, actively embracing digital technology to build the TDMALL Cloud, which aimed to solve the problems of shortage of traditional Chinese medicine resources and regional restrictions.

The project involved cross-border application. APJ had obvious advantages due to its rich experience in large-scale project delivery in Hong Kong.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

The service provider made full use of the internet medical model to open up all business links and move the offline clinic business to online platform. And it had been realized the clinic's online reservation and registration, online consultation, mall service, self-service renewal, AI diagnosis, etc., promoted the clinic's online and offline business linkage, broke the regional restrictions to realize the resource sharing of traditional Chinese medicine experts and enable patients to enjoy professional services anytime and anywhere.

APJ team provided one-stop overall solutions for TDMALL Group from digital transformation consulting, requirement research, project provision, implementation and development as well as system maintenance, etc. In this project solution, the company adopted cutting-edge technologies such as AI and big data, it also used technical ways such as video native plug-in development to ensure the implementation of the overall project.

From the service provider’s company, what is the team composition?

The APJ service team consists of 14 people in total, including 1 Digital Consultant, 1 Pre-Sales Manager, 1 Project Manager, 9 Developers, 1 Testing Personnel and 1 Full-Time Operation and Maintenance Personnel.

How did you come to work with the vendor? 

We started cooperation through the formal bidding process.

What is the status of this engagement? 

We had a very smooth cooperation. Now the phase I project has entered the operation and maintenance stage. At present, the new added phase II project is in the development stage. The project cooperation is still in progress.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

The Chinese medicine had given full play to the advantage of "Cure a disease before its onset". During the COVID-19 epidemic period, there was a peak demand for traditional Chinese medicine. It is the efficient and high-quality service of APJ team that won the first-mover advantage for the promotion of traditional Chinese medicine at home and abroad for our company.

TDMALL Cloud not only realized the resource sharing of TCM experts inside and outside the Group, but also provided more TCM solutions for anti-epidemic protection at home and abroad, greatly improving the service capacity and core competitiveness as well as helping the Group's digital transformation of TCM.

Their solution sorted out our business. Their technical solution also provided technologies that saved our costs.

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

TDMALL Cloud is a diagnosis and treatment management system equipped with online and offline whole process based on Internet medicine, which moves offline business to online platform and makes the whole process of medicine online. The solution solved the regional limitation of expert resources and drug resources to improve the efficiency of patient treatment. (Figure: Appstore Download Page)

How did the vendor perform from a project management standpoint?

We communicated with each other formally by E-mail and participated in zoom video conference according to the overall progress to cooperate with relevant communication of the whole project.

What did you find most impressive about them?

The most impressive thing was that the service provider could offer technical solutions with high efficiency and it was equipped with deep overall R & D strength.

BACKGROUND

What does your business do and what is your role at your company?

Shaanxi Blower (Group) Co., Ltd. was founded in 1968 (hereinafter referred to as "Shaangu") is an integrator and system service provider providing solutions to large-scale power equipment system problems for metallurgy, petrochemical, coal chemical, electric power, national defense, environmental protection, etc. and an enterprise certificated by international quality, environment and occupational health & safety management system.

I am responsible for the research, planning and digital construction of energy management in the Energy Island Project.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What business challenge were you trying to address with the vendor? What is the main reason you hired the service provider?

Based on the needs of its own digital transformation, Shaangu Group had established the world's first energy interconnection island operation center in its own Lintong production and manufacturing park to build an intelligent manufacturing base with the lowest energy consumption and emission of ten thousand RMB output value in the global industry.

APJ had nearly 20 years of operation experience in software R & D center, rich experience in energy industry, profound technical accumulation as well as professional software R & D and quality assurance process.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

The energy management and control platform is developed in collaboration with APJ and Shaangu Group throughout the whole process to realize energy measurement and collection, energy real-time monitoring, energy dynamic analysis, energy optimization control and energy structure improvement. Meanwhile, the platform could monitor energy media such as the temperature of cold and warm, electricity, wind, water, waste, fire-fighting, security and environment in the region, find abnormal energy consumption, diagnose energy consumption defects, evaluate energy consumption and tap energy saving potential. 

Based on energy load prediction, operation optimization tools are applied to guide enterprises to use energy reasonably, promote energy saving and consumption reduction, reduce cost and increase efficiency, promoting enterprises to gradually transform to low-carbon and high-energy. In the development process, the service provider used advanced technologies such as Web configuration visualization, 3D visualization, big data, algorithms and some research results such as energy load prediction, operation optimization. APJ provides technical support, project development and operations services in the overall Energy Island project.

From the service provider’s company, what is the team composition?

The APJ service team consists of 15 people in total, including 1 System Architect, 1 Project Manager, 1 Technical Consultant, 10 Personnel and 2 Testing Personnel.

How did you come to work with the vendor?

We found the service provider by our cooperative partners’ recommendation.

What is the status of this engagement?

The phase I of the project had been successfully completed. And we have determined the long-term cooperation at present to promote the cooperation of follow-up new added projects.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

Through monitoring, recording and analyzing the data used in the energy process, the service provider provided all-round management of energy data of energy island and built a digital energy management system. 

The deliverables run well without adverse feedback.

How did the vendor perform from a project management standpoint?

We communicated with each other formally by E-mail and used on-site / video conference to report the project progress.

What did you find most impressive about them?

The service provider was equipped with great transformation ability on research results. Besides, it required to make theoretical analysis to achieve the final technical application. The cooperation process was relatively smooth.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there. What does your business do and what is your role at your company?

Weimeizi is an innovative high-tech enterprise integrating R & D, production and sales. The company has the oral care brand "Saky", the children's food-grade oral care brand "Sakykids" and the oral health care expert "Sanplax". The products are distributed in all provinces, cities and towns across the country and have been entered into large international and domestic chain stores such as Wal Mart, Carrefour, Yongwang, RT Mart, Yonghui, Auchan, Cp Lotus, etc., realizing the all-round coverage of KA stores, large department stores, cosmetics chain channels, county and township stores and e-commerce.

I serve as the manager of the Information Department and I am responsible for the informatization planning, construction and daily operation & maintenance of all IT systems of the company.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What business challenge were you trying to address with the vendor? What is the main reason you hired the service provider?

After the excess achievement of its profit and sales objectives had been reached in 2020, Weimeizi put forward higher requirements and standards for profit and sales objectives, IPO, social responsibility, brand strength, omni-channel marketing management, online and offline integration, etc. in its 2021 strategy plan.  The role of human resources department was to support the team's most valuable resource - people, decisively putting forward digital transformation and providing guarantee for the realization of the company's strategy.

APJ has been established for nearly 20 years. Based on technical services and rich delivery experience, APJ could ensure efficient and high-quality project delivery. In the selection process, APJ demonstrated that its team strength and past achievements were higher than the selection expectations, so we reached cooperation finally.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement? 

APJ provided Weimeizi with a series of HR management solutions including employee's goals, performance, weekly reports, training and No. 3505 benefits plan. By sorting out the organizational structure and management system of Weimeizi, the solution realized multi-dimensional aspects such as performance, assessment, post empowerment and welfare system, taking positive actions to encourage employees to improve their all-round quality and ability, thus driving the development of business.

APJ team provided one-stop overall solutions for Wemeizi from digital transformation consulting, requirement research, project provision, implementation and development, final program launching and system maintenance, etc.

From the service provider’s company, what is the team composition?

The project team consists of 8 members in total including:

• 1 Digital Consultant
• 1 Project Manager
• 4 Developers
• 1 Testing Personnel
• 1 Full-Time Operation
• Maintenance Personnel

How did you come to work with the vendor?

We found the service provider by colleagues' recommendation and formally invited APJ to participate in the selection process. We selected the best service provider after comparing with various selection reference indicators finally.

What is the status of this engagement?

We both had a very smooth cooperation. Now the project has entered the operation and maintenance stage and the system runs well.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

We had a very pleasant cooperation with APJ team. Especially in the process of requirements discussion, the service provider can understand our ideals immediately with a smooth communication. Weimeizi's short-term strategic goal is to be listed successfully. The launch of Tianzhu Lingshan 360 system makes the human capital play a more core value in the company, improving the employees' all-round quality and ability and providing a solid backing for the company's listing. Tianzhu Lingshan 360 system helps Weimeizi build a national oral brand and step onto the world stage.

We really appreciated that the Tianzhu Lingshan 360 system customized by the APJ team for Weimeizi, the APJ team is equipped with professional business ability and avoided many difficulties in the process of digital transformation. Besides, the company has been considered the future system upgrade plan from the perspective of users, helping us achieve the best balance between our cost control and target effect.

 

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

The project is used for internal use.

How did the vendor perform from a project management standpoint?

We communicated with each other formally by E-mail and had face-to-face communication if necessary. We also used the telephone and We-Chat for remote collaboration in the process.

What did you find most impressive about them?

The most impressive thing was that they concluded a plan according to our process requirements. Besides, the requirements analysis report was very detailed, which could well improve and supplement our business process requirements.