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Cloud vendors case study

Tianchuang Fashion

 

cloud vendors has rich success stories, good reputation, and mature technology. The SAP series applications deployed by our company on cloud vendors run stably, which not only improves work efficiency but also reduces operation and maintenance costs.

 

———- Liu Lu / CTO of Tianchuang Fashion Co., Ltd.

 

 

 

About Tianchuang Fashion

 

Tianchuang Fashion Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Tianchuang Fashion”, stock code: 603608) focuses on providing consumers with stylish, comfortable and healthy shoes and clothing products and services. The company adopts a multi-brand, vertically integrated operation model of the entire industry chain. The company has independently established brands such as KISSCAT (Kissing Cat), ZSAZSAZSU, tigrisso (tig), KissKitty, MUSTHAVE (catalog), etc., and represents the Spanish brand Patricia and the Italian brand Obag. The company adopts the omni-channel marketing method. On the physical channel, the company adopts a combination mode of “self-employment + distribution”. It has deployed more than 2,000 marketing outlets across the country, covering more than 30 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country, and it has spread to more than 370 nationwide Large and medium-sized cities; on the e-commerce channel, the company integrates many mainstream e-commerce platforms and independently develops its own mobile e-commerce platform to provide customers with a convenient, undifferentiated and enjoyable shopping experience.

Challenges faced

 

In recent years, with the slowdown of the global economic growth, changes in the macroeconomic environment such as domestic economic structural adjustment, industrial transformation, and consumption upgrades, China’s economic growth has also slowed. According to the 2016 macroeconomic data released by the National Bureau of Statistics, the national per capita disposable income (net of price factors) increased by 6.3% year-on-year, and the total retail sales of consumer goods increased by 9.6% year-on-year, and the growth rate continued to decline. Under the increasing downward pressure on the economy, the uncertainty of the outlook will have a certain degree of negative impact on consumer psychology and consumption expectations; in addition, driven by consumption upgrades, consumer demand is continuously subdivided. Relying on production-oriented extensive growth, such as increasing output, reducing costs, and ensuring quality, it is difficult to meet the needs of market development and competition.

Facing the current status of the industry, and the rapid development and universal application of e-commerce and mobile Internet, Tianchuang Fashion has promoted the business transformation of “consumer-centric and technology-based”, and the entire industry chain is driven from top to bottom. Lead the overall business transformation and innovation, and realize the transformation of new retail business by focusing on the central commodity operation and consumer operation system.

The “omni-channel new retail consumer operation and trading platform” and “omni-channel product full life-cycle operation platform” focused on product operation and consumer operation system created by Tianchuang Fashion have provided guarantee for the implementation of medium and long-term informationization strategy. The omni-channel new retail consumer operation and trading platform takes SAP ERP as the core, and has completed the construction of business transaction system platforms such as Commodity Link, Inventory Link, Member Link, Price Link, Payment Link, Promotion Link, Supply Chain Link, etc. Operational benefits; the omni-channel product full-lifecycle operation platform realizes the omni-channel product supply value chain driven by the central product plan, and integrates the product plan (MAP), product life cycle (PLM), and logistics center (WMS) through SAP, Completed the omni-channel central merchandise plan, effectively guaranteeing the full-cycle operation efficiency of omni-channel merchandise.

 

Why choose cloud vendors

 

As SAP has higher requirements for cloud platforms, Tianchuang Fashion hopes to find a stable and reliable cloud service provider that has passed the SAP certification and can meet the system requirements. After a comprehensive comparison of various cloud service providers in China, including TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) analysis and field tests, Tianchuang Fashion chose cloud vendors. “cloud vendors was fully SAP certified at that time, because it is related to our core business, so this is very important. In addition, we have a comparative analysis of various cloud service providers, cloud vendors has obvious advantages, and cloud vendors technology has a clear reputation in the industry “Said Liu Lu, CTO of Tianchuang Fashion.

 

 

Excellent performance and flexibility

 

The advanced nature of the cloud vendors cloud platform is reflected in many aspects. One of them is the cloud vendors operated by Halo New Network, which provides cloud hosts with various performance configurations to meet the business needs of different customers. Tianchuang’s core business system uses SAP HANA database, which has strict requirements on server configuration. cloud vendors provides Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R4 instances. R4 instances are memory-optimized instances, which are carefully built to run applications and high-performance databases in large-scale memory. With 488GB of Amazon EC2 R4 instance, Tianchuang Fashion SAP HANA database runs perfectly and efficiently. Moreover, the vertical and horizontal expansion flexibility of Amazon EC2 also ensures that Tianchuang Fashion can easily cope with various business peaks.

 

 

safety

 

For enterprises using ERP systems in the cloud, core business data is placed on the cloud. The biggest concern is to ensure the security and reliability of the data. In this regard, cloud vendors provides a variety of technical services to help Tianchuang Fashion dispel concerns. Through Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage users and user permissions, developers in all departments of Tianchuang Fashion can only access cloud vendors resources and have access to cloud vendors resources securely and orderly. The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables Tianchuang Fashion to easily implement subnet division and isolation according to its own security needs, thereby minimizing the potential security risks of the system.

 

 

 

Professional support services

 

In the process of using cloud vendors, regardless of the early system migration or the solution of the technical difficulties after the system went online, the professional and conscientious attitude of the staff in the cloud vendors operated by Halo New Network made Tianchuang fashionable. In the process of migrating business systems from the original cloud service provider to cloud vendors, due to the multiple core businesses involved, in order to prevent all unexpected situations, the staff of cloud vendors operated by Halo New Network and Tianchuang Fashion carried out A lot of preliminary communication, including various test drills. In the end, the entire migration was completed in less than 48 hours and went online smoothly. After the system was launched, Tianchuang Fashion also encountered many technical problems, which were successfully resolved by the rapid response of the staff. “The service support of cloud vendors operated by Halo New Network is very good. Questions raised are quickly answered to ensure that we can respond at any time when needed.” Liu Lu said.

 

 

 

 

Results achieved

At present, Tianchuang Fashion has deployed all its core business systems in cloud vendors operated by Halo New Network. Figure 1 is the system architecture diagram of Tianchuang Fashion. The cloud vendors cloud services used include Amazon EC2 and Amazon CloudWatch. , Amazon VPC, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), cloud vendorsCloudTrail, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), IAM, etc.

The biggest benefits of using cloud vendors to Tianchuang Fashion are shortening the research and development cycle and improving staff efficiency. The system performance has been improved by 30% compared with the previous cloud service providers. Coupled with the simple, easy-to-use, flexible configuration, and security and stability of cloud vendors, Tianchuang fashion operation and maintenance personnel have greatly reduced maintenance costs, and the remaining time can be focused on Value work.

 

“cloud vendors adopts a flexible and reasonable bandwidth charging model based on the amount of resources that can support the rapid expansion of our business. Paying on demand allows us to focus on business innovation without worrying about the limitations of technical architecture. At the same time, we also see that cloud vendorsis The concept of customer service as the center allows us to truly feel the value transferred from cloud vendors to end users. We also clearly see that the cost of the same resources is decreasing every year, and the maturity of the platform brings management efficiency. , Everything that can be automated has been automated. “Liu Lu said.

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