"You see, if we want to buy coal, we just need this" order ". After accepting the order, the purchase of 100000 tons of raw coal is considered successful!" On January 5th, Niu Wei, the owner of Lingshi Shengwang Coal Washing Plant, sat in his office and logged into the electronic trading platform of the China (Taiyuan) Coal Trading Center through his computer, completing a purchase task of 100000 tons of raw coal in his factory. Next, he only needs to transfer the payment to the supplier Shanxi Coking Coal Group through an online account, and this batch of coal can be quickly transported to his factory.
The reporter learned that in recent times, Shanxi Coal, which has always been portrayed as "heavy, thick, black, and coarse", is rapidly transforming towards the direction of "one click start", electronic trading, simple and efficient, and modern logistics, with the help of the new market environment. At the just concluded 2015 Taiyuan Coal Trade Fair, restructuring the industrial supply chain with Internet thinking and creating a standard e-commerce platform from online to offline has become the unanimous judgment of participants on the development of the coal industry. In short, it is to use e-commerce platforms to promote coal trading, reduce losses and markup in the circulation process, and achieve direct supply from coal producers to consumers without intermediate links. Experts believe that with the online "face-to-face transactions" between supply and demand sides, intermediary traders who have been active for many years will lose their operational space. Buying coal, my heart is stuffed
As one of the many coal industry practitioners in our province, Niuwei has been operating a coal washing plant for fifteen or sixteen years, with an annual production capacity of 800000 tons. In the past, his ways of buying coal were diverse, including establishing his own business relationships and referrals through acquaintances. However, the human factor was often unreliable, and the relationships he had worked hard to maintain were often lost due to reasons such as transfers or resignations. He had to look for them again. Coal traders, commonly known as "coal traders", are also essential to find. In the past, having a coal contract alone was not enough. It was necessary to obtain coal sales tickets, road coal sales permits, and other documents. These procedures were difficult for a small factory to handle, so it had to rely on "related" intermediaries to handle them. The expenses incurred in the middle have already been significantly higher than the contract price. To catch up with the booming coal market, he will have to pay a higher price to get everything done.
The centralized management of railway transportation capacity was also a major gap between the supply and demand sides of the coal market in the past. For a long time, the transportation capacity of coal railways has been continuously tight. Therefore, in order to ensure the key contracts of key coal enterprises, all railway transportation capacity in our province is under centralized management. Enterprises need to apply to relevant departments in advance and obtain approval before loading coal onto the train. That is to say, it is not enough for the buyer to sign a contract with the coal company, and it is useless without a car. However, small enterprises and users are unable to compete with large enterprises and users in terms of transportation capacity applications. As a result, the term "sports car leather" has become a popular catchphrase in the coal industry in Shanxi for decades, and the process of "sports car leather" has also enriched a large group of middle predators known as "coal traders". In such a market environment, it is even more difficult to achieve face-to-face transactions between supply and demand, and to set prices in a realistic manner. Buy coal and go online
The long-standing industry problem was quietly resolved by the end of 2014. In the second half of last year, under the premise of leveraging the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, the centralized management of national railway transportation capacity was first abolished. All enterprises can submit capacity applications to the 12306 railway freight platform on an equal basis, and the system allocates capacity through computers, breaking through the barrier of "freight cars" without breaking through. Subsequently, our province issued a reform of the highway coal transportation and sales system, canceling 9 major coal related bills, and at the same time, canceling the large and small checkpoints that span the highway coal transportation channels, making "spending money to clear customs" a thing of the past. As a result, various obstacles to independent and rapid transactions between supply and demand sides have been cleared, making it possible to "solve it with one click".
Niuwei's way of buying coal has since changed. His proactive, urgent, and rapid consumption choice was to shift from being overwhelmed with worries and worries offline to being clearly visible online. As a third-party electronic trading platform for bulk commodities that our province is striving to build, the China (Taiyuan) Coal Trading Center's electronic trading platform has welcomed several coal users like Niuwei. "Here, the five major coal enterprises in the province are selling coal in the form of hanging orders to the outside world. As long as you become a registered trader on the platform, you can respond to orders and complete transactions through the platform!" Niu Wei showed reporters the operation process of "online trading". ". Users can view relevant information such as coal type, calorific value, origin, and price for each order placed on the platform. If it meets expectations, click on "Order" and follow the instructions provided on the transaction interface to complete the transaction. The Elephant's Initial Manifestation
In fact, the electronic trading platform of the China (Taiyuan) Coal Trading Center, which was launched and operated in early 2012, is a major landmark action for our province to build a new market-oriented coal trading platform and explore new models of coal trading. Especially now, when the barriers to the coal market have been pushed down, the coal electronic trading platform, which is built entirely with Internet thinking, has finally ushered in the moment of its "blooming".
As an electronic trading platform with the title of "national" in China, the China (Taiyuan) Coal Electronic Trading Platform has seized the "commanding heights" of coal "e-commerce through domestic electronic trading services, high-capacity information services, and comprehensive and rich financial services since its launch. At present, the platform has attracted a total of 9615 registered traders, covering 31 provinces and cities, and has become the coal electronic trading platform with the most registered traders and spot trading volume in China. Here, the vast majority of production capacity supply and key users from major coal enterprises both inside and outside the province are gathered. The supply and demand sides can complete one-stop services such as contract signing and payment settlement through online meetings. Meanwhile, new media platforms such as the central website, mobile client, and WeChat platform can push massive service information to users. Users can also enjoy platform support similar to "private customization" here. Change from offline to online
The reporter learned that, driven by the "Internet era", industry giants such as Shenhua Group and middling coal Group have quietly entered the online trading mode. In May last year, middling coal Commerce, independently developed by middling coal Group, was officially launched and put into operation. Middling coal claims that the platform integrates online transactions, real-time queries, supply chain financial services, and supply chain embedding for key customers through the integration and optimization of the supply chain. And Shenhua Group's actions were earlier. In May 2013, the electronic trading platform independently developed by Shenhua Group was officially launched for trading.
Obviously, coal trading entering the e-commerce era will guide profound changes in the upstream and downstream supply chains. "Simply put, it means reducing the intermediate profit links to ultimately achieve an increase in factory prices and a decrease in retail prices." Dong Yaomin, the CEO of Shanxi Hengxinda Energy Research Center, even said that with direct online negotiations between supply and demand, the coal market pattern will be simplified from the previous four level transaction links of coal enterprises, intermediate traders, logistics, and users to the three level transaction links of coal enterprises, logistics, and users. In the next decade, coal traders engaged in intermediate operations may disappear as a whole. Build an online store together
During the "13th Five Year Plan" period, as China changes the mode of economic growth and adjusts its economic structure and energy structure, the intensity of coal consumption will be greatly reduced. Existing contradictions such as overcapacity and import shocks will continue to have an impact. Against this backdrop, the past extensive and simple coal development model will inevitably be eliminated, and a more modern, more accurate and more efficient business mode will take the lead. "Qu Jianwu, director of China (Taiyuan) Coal Trading Center, said that under the" new normal "of the" economy ", the traditional coal industry must use advanced Internet thinking to transform itself if it wants to gain market initiative. Opening" online stores "is a promising way for industrial upgrading.
Hu Yuyue, director of the Securities and Futures Research Institute of Beijing Technology and Business University, also believes that at present, the consumer Internet system represented by BAT (Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent) has completed its basic development and entered the era of fierce competition, while the industrial Internet system, including crude oil, coal and other bulk commodities, has just started, and there is still a lot of room for development. The core of coal electronic trading is to use e-commerce platforms to promote e-commerce transactions. Through online transactions and offline logistics, it reduces losses and markup in the circulation process, achieving direct supply from coal producers to consumers without intermediate links. This new e-commerce trading model may achieve a stable increase in coal factory prices, relatively stable or even stable decline in terminal sales prices. Once the industrial Internet takes shape, the modern and efficient coal market trading environment will also appear in front of us.
The coal industry has entered the era of e-commerce
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