"Railway Mall" is the official e-commerce procurement platform for engineering and building auxiliary materials of China Railway Construction. It coordinates the supply and procurement of the second and third types of materials for engineering materials within the China Railway Construction system, and provides trading, management, information, logistics and other services. The main products include hardware and electrical machinery, electrical plumbing, profile machinery, labor security, decorative materials, office sundries and other product categories. It has a fully electronic online bidding function.

It is positioned in the internal engineering material procurement of China Railway Construction Group, helping the various bureaus and construction groups of China Railway to introduce a large number of building materials suppliers, and providing a free trading platform for settled suppliers.

Suppliers can settle in the "Railway Mall" and open their own "online stores". They can display products and corporate information online, take orders online; participate in inquiry and quotation procurement, bidding procurement and other businesses. Reduce sales links, save sales costs, improve sales efficiency, and expand sales channels. In addition, high-quality suppliers will have the opportunity to become "Railway Self-operated" partners.

Background of Birth

Comply with national strategies

The construction manufacturing industry complies with the main direction of national informatization development, Internet + collaborative self-manufacturing; Internet + HP finance; Internet + efficient logistics; Internet + e-commerce.

Implementing the development of railway construction

In his annual work report, Zhuang Shangbiao, president of China Railway Construction Corporation Limited, pointed out: "We must gradually build a vibrant collection system. We must insist on controlling the source and increase the efforts of independent production, centralized procurement and direct supply, and recycling of relevant materials. We must vigorously promote the Internet procurement of small batches of construction tools and materials, office supplies, and low-value consumables."

Focus on business needs

Leveraging Internet technology and thinking, through information management systems and Internet financial services, we focus on the market service gaps in the electronic procurement of Class II and Class III materials in the railway construction system, and meet the specifications and requirements of procurement business to the B-end.

Advantages and Features

Open Merchant Platform

1. Constantly improve supplier resources and management system. According to statistics in October 2017, there are more than 8,000 suppliers in the mall, ten first-level categories, more than 200 second-level categories, more than 1,500 third-level categories, and more than 100,000 SKUs, and the number is increasing day by day.

2. Use the advantages of the platform to integrate and expand channel resources, thereby improving bargaining power. It not only maintains the original supply-purchase relationship and habits, but also breaks the barriers of previous procurement prices. Integrate and select existing supply chain resources to provide products with higher cost-effectiveness and quality assurance, and provide buyers with more and more reliable choices.

Compliant procurement process

1. Based on the rich supplier product resources, buyers can easily and efficiently select the required goods according to different dimensions (price, lower than, rating, etc.) procurement requirements.

2. Provide a variety of procurement modes: direct procurement, price comparison procurement, inquiry procurement, and bidding procurement.

3. Integrate and expand the channel resources of both parties of the purchase, and build a platform for information gathering, communication and sharing.

Thoughtful supporting services

1. The online operation team provides an exclusive agent customer service system to solve the problems of information agreement, matching quotation and after-sales consultation between buyers and sellers during procurement.

2. Provide logistics and warehousing solutions to help create the "last 1 kilometer" delivery service. "Relay cooperation" and "full entrustment" dual modes are optional.

3. Set up regional offline teams, establish offline service stations, provide business public on the ground cooperation and other services, and realize the cost reduction and efficiency improvement of the three-party communication channel.

Perfect financial solutions

1. Worry-free payment: With the help of the self-built financial system, provide credit payment, guaranteed loans and other services for the purchaser. Avoid the occurrence of suspension and interruption of supply due to delays in the collection of Party A and difficulties in procurement payment.

2. Account guarantee: Through a third-party guarantee payment institution, suppliers and the platform establish account docking to ensure the timely acceptance of suppliers' accounts. Transfer the risk of default and reduce the capital turnover pressure of suppliers.

3. Tax invoice agency: Through the "China Railway Construction Self-operated" supply and marketing model, the problem of difficulty in invoicing encountered by purchasers after the "business tax to value-added tax" reform can be solved. There is a platform to issue special invoices to solve the worries of material procurement.