Alibaba Group Holding, which runs the world’s biggest e-commerce platform, aims to provide small companies with an advanced digital manufacturing infrastructure that could help transform how China produces and brings goods to market.
Hangzhou-based Alibaba unveiled its New Manufacturing pilot on Wednesday with the introduction of Xunxi Digital Factory, which has initially offered small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the apparel industry a cloud-based production supply chain that can respond quickly to shifting consumer trends.