The energy planning solution has been co-developed by Shanghai Electric Distributed Energy Co., Ltd and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. It allows customers to evaluate the financial viability of large-scale energy production projects before commissioning their construction.
Online delivery of spare parts
To that end, the platform covers 90% of the power plant "must-have" spare parts product lists. It can facilitate the online delivery of more than 22,000 spare parts products and 70 standard repair packages—all at near factory price.
Customers can use a standardized format for requirements. This improves the transaction efficiency by streamlining the communication process between buyers and sellers. Through big data analysis, the E-commerce platform stimulates the hope of incubating an integrated data-driven solution for intelligent and customized products and services.
Remote equipment diagnostics
Prior to placing any order, users of the SEunicloud platform can users can remotely run equipment diagnostics. They can procure and manage supply chains and monitor supplier contracts, source bidding, online purchasing and order coordination.
The intelligent supply chain platform also helps match sellers and buyers through historical data analysis in the procurement pricing process and automatically tracks and documents suppliers' historical performance. This facilitates the overall supply chain management process for due diligence.
"Under the big picture of 'new infrastructure', Shanghai Electric is leveraging its competitive advantage in big data in multiple pipelines, and paving the way for an integrated platform-based solution for the whole power industry," said Huang Ou, the Director and President of Shanghai Electric Group.