3. =
Robust supply chains
Extraordinary services
Premium products
+ +
Leading real-time online fulfillment service system
Efficient supply chain management
High-quality and cost-effective products
Highly loyal members
Products delivered within 29 minutes
+
DingDongFresh Provides a One-stop Online Shopping Platform
with Excellent User Experience
Unique self-operated distributed mini warehouses
Closer to
consumers
Stellar user
experience
Efficient
operations
Super
scalability
Flexible site selection
for offline stores
SOP-based
management
4. Modern procurement
and fulfillment system
Digital upgrade
Production specifications & D-G.A.P standards
The upstream production is more transparent. Based on
insights into consumption habits, the suppliers are able to
ensure stable supplies that meet users requirements.
WMS system & automation equipment
Higher efficiency
Lower product loss rate
Foundation backend backed by the big data
Data algorithm-powered E2E process
Personalized recommendations
Enhanced user loyalty
+
+
Self-built municipal sorting centers Distributed mini warehouses Dining tables
Procurement from farm bases
Procurement from brands and agents
Real-time AI-powered
inventory management system
Faster turnover
Lower shortages, less loss
Intelligent order dispatching system
Effective route design and planning and
high order density
Faster delivery and higher efficiency
Upstream procurement
Different sources
Distribution center
Sorting and packaging into standard products
Distributed mini warehouses
Products stored at the right temperature and
intelligently matched with corresponding orders
User experience and feedback
Products delivered within 29 minutes
An E2E Self-operated Digital Supply System
7+1 quality control
process
New product
review
Inspection and
acceptance at
warehouses
Quality
inspections at
the source
Sorting, packaging,
and transferring
Inspection and storage Delivery
Order sorting User evaluation and
services
Finest quality
Full categories Faster delivery
5. The Challenges of Digitalizing a Fresh Food Supply Chain
DingDongFresh digital strategy
From the very beginning, Liang Changlin, the
founder of DingDongFresh, settled on a strategy of
E2E Digitalization + Data & Algorithms Driven, to
make their services digital.
The fresh food retail supply chain is vastly complex. Each product takes a long voyage, from the
field, through a transportation network, to your grocery cart. Fresh foods have great category
differences, and they are easily damaged in transit. Making the supply chain digitalization is hard.
Challenge 1 How can we efficiently implement digital transformation?
Challenge 2 How can we get the entire digital system to respond to problems?
6. Manufacturing & Packaging
Manufacturing execution system (MES)
Quality management system (QMS)
Delivery (FDC -> User)
Scheduling/Dispatch System
Delivery App
Users
User Growth
Membership Management
Custom Service
Forecasting system
Objective Management
Forecasting
Replenishment plan
Capacity Management
Inventory management
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Planning
Purchase management system
(PMS)
Vendor management system (VMS)
Procurement
Warehouse management system (WMS)
Warehouse control system (WCS)
Warehouse (RDC)
Food Manufacturing System (ERP)
Agricultural Operational System (AOS)
Suppliers
Transportation management system
(TMS)
Transportation (RDC -> FDC)
Frontline Fulfillment Stations
Management System
Assorting/Packaging App
Frontline Fulfillment Stations
(FDC)
Inventory Allocation Management
Inventory Allocation
Merchandising Management System
Pricing Management System
Event Management System
Sales
Personalized Search &
Recommendation
E-commerce System
(User/Product/Order/Marketing/Shop
ping/…)
Apps
E2E Digitalization
7. Digital Transformation: Top-down Construction and Closed-loop Iteration
Traditional retail: bottom-up
• Process: process-based - > online/systematic - > data-driven/AI-powered
• System: procured or self-built independent systems + later integration
• Advantages and disadvantages: lightweight startup and fast rollout, but not good for subsequent
integration and reconstruction
DingDongFresh: top-down
• Process: online closed-loop operation on key business processes → global decision-making driven by
data & algorithms → system and algorithm iterations based on accumulated data
• System: integrated application + data + model (self-built), and continuous iterations and optimization
• Advantages and disadvantages: costly and slow rollout, but works well for follow-up optimization
• Quantitative decision-making for a 3 million
product portfolio in the distributed mini
warehouses
• Decision-making based on data & algorithms
• Automation systems
• Human-machine collaboration
Case Study
Three key points
9. Quick Response to Problems: Digitalization Allows Mistakes
Identifying problems and locating root
causes
• Build a comprehensive system of business metrics
• Design anomaly attribution analysis for key metrics
• Attributed abnormalities to the right people or team
Improving supply chain robustness
• Optimize based on theory of constraints (TOC)
• Optimize the forecasting model
• Improve data quality
• Optimize the warehouse network
• Use robotic process automation (RPA) for
emergency operations
Correcting by trial and error
• Iterative close-loop of Trail-Correction-Feedback
• Collect data when troubleshooting data errors
• Case 1: Master Data Inaccuracy Problem
• Case 2: Fresh Food Loss Problem
10. Better and Fresher Food with Technology
25%
Service performance
30%
Overall costs
40%
Resource utilization
Serving 20 cities, including
Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen,
Guangzhou, and Hangzhou
1000 distributed mini warehouses
* 3,000 SKUs per warehouse
3+ million
product
combinations
DingDongFresh & Huawei Cloud
Decoupled storage and
compute for big data
OBS: unified data lake
storage
Kunpeng & X86 Cloud heterogeneous
computing capabilities
Upgrading Kernel engines
such as Hive and Spark
Cloud native CCE, CCI,
and ECS
Task
optimization
Platform
optimization
Performance
optimization
Service
optimization
Data table
optimization
Assortmen
t planning
Intelligent
pricing
Demand
forecasts
Inventory
planning
Category
promotion
Supply-demand
coordination
Search and
recommendation
Digital Merchandising Operations
。。。