| Solution for Diversified Groups

Group companies usually have many functional departments and subsidiaries. It always causes a lot of inevitable problems. For example, headquarters don’t have a clear view of subsidiaries’ sales, project management or finance performance. It increases the management difficulty for the headquarter.

Weaver e-cologysolution takes advantage of EIP and eliminate information island by creating a collaborative working environment for the headquarters and subsidiaries.

The solution offers eight models to support the needs of diversified group:

1.  Knowledge Management

Build a corporate knowledge library to provide a platform for knowledge accumulation, sharing and innovation.

2.  Human Resource management

Organization and manage employees and their work effectively.

3.  Customer Relationship management

Integrate customers into services, sales, products and finance workflow, creating 360 degree customer view.

4.  Work flow management

Digitalize business workflow, connect each aspect of business operation and improve corporate efficiency.

5.  Project information management

Take control of project lifecycle from project startup, planning, implementation, control to completion.

6.  Property management

Manage corporate assets effectively, supervise asset utilization during the whole process.

7.  Finance information management

Present financial data at a granular level to help the company make business decisions.

8.  Group data management

Collect data from subsidiaries, including finance, manufacturing, sales and cost data to assist decision-making.

| Reference case of diversified group

Weaver helped Hailiang Group build up an office collaboration platform.——Hailiang Group Co, Ltd

·   Client Profile

Founded in 1989, Hailiang has become a large international group focusing on non-ferrous metals, real estate construction, agricultural food, environmental protection, basic education and industrial finance. It owns five listed companies with total assets of 63.123 billion RMB. It was ranked the 113rd in Top 500 Chinese enterprises, the 13th in Top 500 private Chinese enterprises and the 3rd in Top 100 Zhejiang enterprises.

·   Project Scope

With the fast development of business, especially stepping into the stage of group management, Hailiang urgently needed an efficient group management system. To align with the corporate development strategy, the new collaborative management platform should focus on strategy implementation, organization collaboration and communication, group management and control, integration of business management, inner control system, KM, decision support, culture inheritance and business model innovation.

EIP, process management, KM, operating statements integration, heterogeneous system integration, communication and collaboration, and mobile office were regarded the core of the whole application while technology of information integration was the foundation for the whole project.

Information portal

Corporate portal, functional portal, special portal, work portal

Process management

Administration management process, HRM process, financial management process, investment management process

Knowledge management

Knowledge classification, knowledge center, knowledge search, knowledge map, access control

SAP integration

Synchronization of employee and organization information, integration of workflow approval and management reporting

Mobile platform

Address book, IM, mobile officing

·   Results

Hailiang OA platform was successfully launched after one year implementation. It is a unified and integrated management & officing platform.
Integration and decentralization are the two key features:  

Integration:a unified platform including information release and sharing, workflow standardization and execution, knowledge accumulation and utilization, collaboration and communication and mobile officing, system integrated and information unified.

Decentralization:the headquarters in charge of managing the system maintenance authority while delegating some of system maintenance responsibilities to the subsidiaries, making sure that the headquarters and each business section maintain their own applications.