Background
The informatization of coal industry, the key economic pillar of our country, is developing widely. Within a lot of large and medium coal mine enterprises and between the enterprises and the outside, more and more business application system is established. But due to the lack of unified planning and deployment, the “information islands” brought about by the isolation of each business application systems is increasingly hindering the development of the enterprise. The specific questions can be classified as follows:

1. Low Informatization Level in the Coal Industry
The current situation of the informatization level of the coal industry is that the informatization level is generally low. A great majority of coal industry is still at the stage of manually summarizing statistics, especially the businesses of production, transportation, marketing, storage and financing are done manually in most of the enterprises. Generally speaking, the informatization level of coal industry is falling behind the other industries like financial industry, power industry, steel industry, petroleum industry, petrochemical industry, nonferrous metals industry, electronics industry, etc.

2. Extremely Uneven in the Informatization Level of Coal Industry
Currently, the informatization level of coal industry is in an extremely uneven condition. Generally speaking, the state-owned key enterprise is doing better in informatization construction. While in small local coal mine, there is little or no informatization construction.

The informatization of coal industry obviously has the following problems: focus on investment, local status and hardware rather than management the wholestatus  and software. Meanwhile, the development of professional industrial software is also lagging behind. From the existing market conditions, there is a shortage of special software that suits the feature and requirement of coal industry.

3. Difficulties in the Informatization Construction of Coal Industry
A. The idea of “unified distribution” is deeply rooted in coal industry for many years. There is a lack of relatively advanced management idea. The informatization construction lacks planning and is only on small scale with pauses all the time. There is very little development goes step by step systemically according to a large overall planning;

B. Most of the coal industries are old enterprises with extensive management and heavy burden. The quality of the employees is relatively low. There are difficulties in informatization spending and shortage of construction funds. Especially due to bad efficiency of coal industry in the previous years, the informatization construction is far from sufficient to meet the demand of enterprise informatization development;

C. Part of the department leaders and management department pay little attention to the informatization construction of the enterprise. There are no specially-assigned personnel responsible for that and there is no specific informatization development planning; some of the grass root units have serious idea of waiting, relying and wanting. They only care about hardware equipment and care little about the popularization of the application;

D. The basis of information automation construction is not complete and lacks monitoring and controlling system, the automatic generation of information can not be achieved;

E. The monitoring and controlling subsystems are independent of each other. There are various interface protocols and there could even be no interface, which causes environment heterogeneity; there’s no integration and sharing of information among each system. Within the mine, Information Island with each subsystem being one unit is formed. Among departments, there’s poor horizontal information flow and slow information feedback. All these result to the delay of various production management decisions, even to decision-making error.

F. Lack of applicable business software. The informatization construction of the enterprise often requires customize developing. The informatization cost is high and there’s insufficient compound personnel who is master in both enterprise management and information technology.

Overview
GreatWe mine industry supply and marketing business platform solution - Galadin BUP (Business Union Platform, hereinafter referred as BUP) is a brand new coal supply and marketing integrated management platform designed and developed by Beijing GreatWe Technology Development Co., Ltd. The system is the outcome of more than ten years’ business software development and operation experience. It is based on summarizing years’ of ERP system experience with IBM and the experience of coal and retail industry consultation and implementation. It interprets and analyses the business status of coal transportation and sales industry in combination with the application of CBM (Component Business Model) method. It adopts advanced software, such as SOA, ESB, J2EE, EXML etc., to realize technology.

As a platform with brand new idea, Galadin BUP performs well in the management of supply, marketing and storage and import and export trade of coal. It supports “unified marketing, unified settlement” of coal and the development of coal blending business and helps to realize effective organizing and assigning of coal resource and transportation resource.

Function Introduction
1. Galadin Supply and Marketing Management System
Galadin supply and marketing management system is the key system of Galadin BUP. The system includes order management subsystem, transportation management subsystem, inventory management subsystem, settlement management subsystem, trade management subsystem.

A. Order management subsystem: Order is the implementation of contract. One order corresponds with one contract, but one contract can have multiple orders. There could be no contract when creating orders, because it can be signed later. Coal type orders falls into domestic trade purchase order, domestic trade sales order, drop shipping order, tripartite export agent order, two parties export agent order, import agent order, import order, export order, etc;

B. transportation management subsystem: mainly includes the following management functions of the transportation planning: plan-making, hiring trucks, hiring ships, truck loading, shipment and coal blending;

C. inventory management subsystem: including in-storage and out-storage management, transferring management, checking management, inventory adjustment management and pile location management;

D. settlement management subsystem: including advance payment management, account payable management, advance payment management, account receivable management, cost management;

E. trade management subsystem: including export license management, import license management, establishment of letter of credit, customs clearance, custom inspection, foreign exchange management, etc.

2. Contract Management System

According to category, the contract can be divided into coal, non-coal and material contract. Coal contract refers to the coal business contract or agency contract during the process of production, transportation and marketing business of the joint stock company everyday; Galadin BUP completes the template definition, contract creation, contract approval, contract execution tracing, contract archiving and other functions.

3. Customer Management System

Galadin BUP realizes customer basic information management and consignee basic information management; Galadin customer management system includes the functions of adding new customer, maintaining customer , adding new receiving unit and maintaining receiving unit.

4. Supplier and Sourcing Management System

Galadin BUP realizes supplier basic information management and delivery unit basic information management; the suppliers fall into internal and external supplier of the group. In one contract, delivery unit is usually the same to the supplier. But some suppliers might specify other delivery unit to deliver goods. Galadin supplier management system includes the functions of new supplier, maintain supplier, new delivery unit and maintain delivery unit.

Customer Value
With Galadin BUP business platform, we can help you realize:

●  Digest supply and marketing and trade business; grasp the information of organization of coal supply, transportation, marketing, trading and settlement business at any time;

● Realize overall visualization of coal inventory;

● Improve controllability in the organizing, marketing and trading of the source of coal; strengthen the control on the purchase price, purchase contract and purchase budget, and the control on sales price, sales contract and business contract budget;

●  Realize effective organizing and assigning of coal resource and transportation resource, reduce the total cost of coal supply, guarantee the continuity of coal supply;

● Satisfy the differentiation demand of the customer. Through the management of coal blending scheme, provide customer with adaptive product and service, so as to improve customer satisfaction and improve enterprise income;

● Strengthen sales team management, support encouraging the marketing team, increase sales volume of coal.

All in all, Galadin BUP sets up business platform framework and realizes management on business links like organizing coal source, logistics transportation, storage & inventory, marketing, trading, etc., and also realizes contract management, customer basic information management and supplier basic information management; through the implementation of Galadin BUP, the following items are achieved: obtain business information, whole course visualization of coal inventory, basic control on business process and the balance guarantee among production, transportation and marketing, railway reaching and loading cohesion.

Potential client
Suitable for large and medium coal enterprise involving production, transportation and marketing businesses and planning to improve enterprise work efficiency and enterprise economic benefit by realizing inforamtization management of the overall business process.