The first quarter of the major large and medium-sized steel enterprises accumulated losses have been more than 1 billion yuan, in the current overall steel industry downturn in the situation, steel mills and steel traders want to seek new profit points, only in the transformation and upgrade on a breakthrough. and similar to the formation of a steel-linked shares of the "my steel Net" spot electronic trading platform has become the industrial chain downstream of the cost of compression.
recently, "Daily economic news" reporter from the "eighth session of the Iron and steel industry Development strategy and the Conference on Steel products production needs" learned that by the Chinese iron construction under the China Railway Materials group and the "Steel House" site joint venture to form China's bulk materials network officially online, The move is also considered by the market to be the Chinese iron construction in the non-steel business of a search for income and expenditure.
Market to expand non-steel business
"After the rapid development, China's steel industry has been from the structural, phased overcapacity stage, into a total capacity surplus stage." At this stage, the traditional mode of operation and development has been difficult to adapt to the change of iron and steel industry, the traditional competitive advantage is gradually weakening. "The Steel Home" website general manager Wu Wenzhang to "Daily economic news" reporter said. Li, Deputy Secretary-General of China Iron and steel Industry Association, said, "Although there is no exact statistics, it is estimated that China's steel production capacity has reached 900 million tons."
according to CISA's latest statistics, the first quarter of the focus of large and medium-sized steel enterprises accumulated losses have been more than 1 billion yuan, China's steel industry has appeared in this century, the industry has been a rare quarterly loss of a continuous quarter.
Meanwhile, steel production has climbed steadily, reaching a record high in early April. Production capacity of the continuous release of steel supply and demand structure is undergoing fundamental changes in the domestic steel market, the end of the demand performance repeated, more so that the market becomes passive, steel traders in the past rely on the price difference to win the profit of the development model unsustainable. For a time, the size of steel enterprises are considered outside the main industry to create a new world.
and this time, such as the iron and steel materials such a large-scale trade and industry companies have chosen to join hands in the steel sector has a well-known steel professional website, "Steel House" to join the iron and Steel E-commerce website, in the industry, this may be the Chinese iron materials in the "cut expenditure" aspect of an attempt to
"On the one hand, they can buy steel to reduce costs, on the other hand may also hope that the use of this platform to open up more other trading customers, information consulting and procurement of tenders combined, the future of China's bulk materials network will gradually develop into a set of spot sales, deep-processing, warehousing, logistics, payment, settlement in one functional service platform, In order to increase the income and profit source, we can realize the concentration of information flow, capital flow and material flows in the steel circulation industry and optimize the allocation of related resources. "China Railway Materials group general Manager assistant, China Railway Materials Group Steel Home Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd. chairman Guo told reporters."
business-to-business or steel enterprises competition blue ocean
according to the Daily economic news reporter, similar to China's bulk goods network in the commodity market, based on the traditional spot trading model of Business-to-business E-commerce Web site in the industry is not a single example.
data show that as of last year, China engaged in electronic trading of steel Web site has been nearly thousands. January 2011, by China Railway Materials Co., Ltd. and the west of the Shinkansen Co., Ltd. joint venture "XI-e-commerce company" has been on line, the company registered capital of RMB 666 million yuan, mainly engaged in steel, Ore and other commodities commodities trade and electronic trading services.
In June 2011,
, the operator of "My Steel Network", was officially listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. In the first half of 2012, Huai Ore logistics invested tens of millions of dollars to buy and reorganize the Still spot electronic trading platform for the platform to "inject" the advantages of the storage base. Similar sites are today's steel network, gold and Silver Island, Oppu Steel Network and so on, as well as in the North occupy the majority of users of the Lange steel Network and other institutions.
whether listed, or want to go public, seems to have seen the iron and steel business-to-business E-commerce site of the market blue sea, because of the domestic steel industry demand for information services rigid, so to provide competitive intelligence, Market prices and other iron and steel enterprises core operating information for the main business of the third party intermediary companies may become the iron and steel upstream and downstream enterprises to the next point of the Nuggets contest.
"Select online transactions on the Internet, so that the supply and demand between the parties to be able to trade at a lower cost, can save a lot of costs, and the use of iron and steel E-commerce platform, is also expected to make a lot of domestic engineering tenders, procurement more sunshine." "A domestic steel mills executive pointed out.
In this regard, Eric Consulting E-commerce analysts also believe that the SME business-to-business E-commerce is still in the development of the stage, user experience is often easily forgotten or neglected by E-commerce enterprises, especially for the nascent steel E-commerce site, the user experience is a big test. As long as there are enough users, vertical business-to-business sites have the opportunity to go public, not just the steel industry.
