Back up for the foundry? High tech should not be a gimmick for enterprises

"Among the time-honored brands, Tongrentang is one of the enterprises that like to emphasize its own scientific and technological attributes. When the issue of expired honey broke out, people realized that despite the use of so many new and high-tech technologies, Tongrentang was' powerless' to the production process and raw material sources of its own products, so it was' ineffective supervision and oversight '."

Are time-honored brands also faking? The honey incident of Tongrentang has become the most concerned food safety incident in recent days.

On December 15, the media reported that Yancheng Jinfeng Food Technology Co., Ltd., the manufacturer of Beijing Tongrentang honey, recycled a large amount of expired and near expired honey, and announced that it would "return it to bee farmers to raise bees". But in fact, the recycled honey is poured into vats and sent to the raw material warehouse. In addition, the company also has the problem of changing the honey production date.

After the event, Tongrentang's statement acknowledged the responsibility for poor supervision and oversight in the commissioned production process, but also "tactfully" shifted most of the responsibility to the OEM. In fact, in 2017, media reported that Beijing Tongrentang was listed on the quality inspection black list six times a year.

Among the time-honored brands, Tongrentang is one of the enterprises that like to emphasize its own scientific and technological attributes. In recent years, Tongrentang's "Innovation Classics" have been widely spread - how they use modern scientific means to express the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine, give people a scientific explanation, "let ancient Chinese medicine catch the technology express"; How to enrich our marketing methods with the rapid development of the Internet; How to improve the management process to ensure product quality has been reported in the press today with the growing development of artificial intelligence and other high-tech. According to these reports, it can be considered that Tongrentang has a mature and perfect enterprise scientific and technological innovation system, and has invested heavily to encourage professional and technical personnel at all levels to carry out various forms of technological innovation and technological breakthrough activities around production and quality. All these have made Tongrentang the "inspirational example" that many traditional enterprises want to learn most, who want to transform and upgrade and catch up with the trend of science and technology.

However, when the expired honey incident broke out, people realized that despite the use of so many new and high-tech technologies, Tongrentang was "powerless" to the production process and raw material source of its own products, so it was "ineffective supervision and oversight". One sentence of "OEM" seems to be able to erase most of the responsibilities. We all know that the OEM mode has many hidden dangers because of a layer of entrustment, and quality control is the biggest drawback. You see, I'm just a brand, and I can't always supervise the production process of the OEM. If there is a problem with the product, I can't supervise it properly, but I can't help it - it sounds reasonable.

With the development of science and technology today, many high-tech products such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and new enterprise management software have become very mature. A grain of rice can be recorded from the day it is sown to the family it enters; Open and transparent throughout the production cycle, and data can not be tampered with is no longer a problem; It is not a dream for a product to be traceable to its source, destination and responsibility. The disadvantages and weaknesses of the traditional traceability platform, such as opaque information, easily tampered data, and poor security, have now been overcome by new technologies.

In this case, why does Tongrentang, known as a model of technological innovation of traditional enterprises, completely "lose control" of a foundry factory? You should know that although it is a OEM factory, the products produced are actually labeled as Tongrentang and have entered thousands of households. Therefore, OEM is not a shield, and "weak supervision" is also difficult to be an excuse. Since "although processing is complicated, we must not save labor, and although taste is expensive, we must not reduce material resources" is an ancient motto that Tongrentang has followed up to now, then Tongrentang should also "take snacks" and "use some strength" on the way of scientific and technological innovation.

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