Alibaba to ramp up digital transformation in China’s US$4 trillion manufacturing sector


The e-commerce giant’s New Manufacturing pilot, Xunxi Digital Factory, is powered by technologies such as process and cost planning, automated in-house logistics and its own manufacturing operating system. Xunxi, which means fast rhino, has initially offered its cloud-based manufacturing supply chain to small firms in China’s apparel industry. — SCMP

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.

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