S-Council is a powerful and professionalplatform for us including sourcing, logisticsand supply chain senior managers, to sharebest practices and receive first-hand marketintelligence, which had already becomeour reliable assistant to make wise decisionsduring our daily work.

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” Jenny Zhang, Logistics Director of Behr Asia Pacific

Supply chain Managementis worth sharing

With variousapproaches, S-Councilappreciates intelligencecontribution in everychannel.S-Council professionalreport covers particularbenchmark industrialtrend forecasting, newestpolicy introduction, casesharing and detailed Q&A.Our primary focus is toachieve a successfulhand-on supply chainmanagement outcomefor our memberships, whilebringing more substantialvalue.

SpotlightS-Council values professional sharing. Our clients appreciate that we are

supported by a great number of major corporation as membership and

numerous veterans for knowledge exchange.

Insightful, reliable and robust, the S-Council platform is the backbone of

successful international cross-company cooperation assisting over 1,000

companies with several thousand users in China.

S-Council understand SCM is the combination of art and science that

goes into improving the way your company finds the raw components it

needs to make a product or service and deliver it to customers. Our

team possess a deep knowledge of supply chain and we are bound

together by a strong shared ethos and a common professional

approach. We aim to share our memberships’ objectives and solution

among the peers and deliver the working issues for exploring practical

methodology. Our primary focus is to achieve a successful hand-on

supply chain management outcome for our memberships, while bringing

more substantial value.

S-Council欣赏专业的经验分享。得益于来自大量国际知名企业供应链经理人的

支持，我们的客户愿意与我们深入交流，和同行分享经验，交流专业资讯。

独具眼光，可靠性，资源丰富是S-Council成为百余家会员企业供应链管理分享

平台的重要基石。我们了解供应链管理是科学与艺术的结合，它具备更多的创造

力而非权威。S-Council团队对此深有认识，通过不同渠道积极探寻同行的目标，

管理方式与解决方案，旨在探索最佳的供应链方法。同时，我们亦乐于密切关注

分享活动的成效，以致力于您的业务增值。

No bold attempt, no great discovery. S-Council appreciates creative methodology coming from professionals. We believe brainstorming and inspiration can break the boundaries.

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Trade compliancerequire accuracy

The value-added tax(VAT) reform projected totake place in Shanghai in2012 was China’s first steptowards resolving the issueof duplicate taxation ongoods and services.Following the experimentin Shanghai, the Chinesegovernment hasapproved Beijing tobecome the second citythat implements VATreform. S-Council discernthe caused influence inlogistics and taxes processand introduced the all-sided schemeaccordingly.Furthermore, S-Councilprovide more precautionand shanghai VATexperience to Beijingcorporate, which minimizethe loss and create theopportunity ever.

CASE STUDY

International trade faced with distressed situations need professional

officers who have the authorization to introduce the very detail of every

items concerning goods

classification, valuation, verification, assessment, etc. S-Council focus on

the newest key policy and follow up the little change , even the trend in

the near future to get the fresh countermeasure s, which offers more

opportunities during the supply chain management.

S-Council’s conference understand the features of the trade

compliance part: timely information, accuracy and the most client care

about most, the particular case solution from various trade activities

and dissimilar industries and corporate style. Supply chain executives

are believed the official lecturing could be the effective way to deliver

the valid intelligence. And the greatest part is, you may raise a on-site or

oh-phone question to dig the best probable way dealing with the

current issue in your daily work.

国际贸易活动牵涉商品归类，估价，货物原产地等大量合规性评估。S-Council

与政府官员及专业人士密切协作，提供最新政策宣贯及全面解读，为您提供低成

本、高效率，不受地域限制的专业经验分享交流服务。我们注重贸易规范操作细

节及相关话题，通过合法选择和优化，您将收获创造更多的收益机遇。

Policy interpretationpractice

Sourcing market isprobably transferring fromChina to other regiongradually in recent yearand we invariably regardthe condition as aopportunities andforecasting. We pay closeattention on subtle marketalternation in strategicperspective, specificallyfor executives who keepswatchful eyes on theplanning and moreadded value analysis.

Spotlight

Oriented by the industries character, procurement determined the very

rhythm in the first place to some extent. Procurement is the effective

acquisition of goods or services. It is important that the goods and

services procured are appropriate and that they are purchased at the

lowest possible price to meet the needs of the purchaser in terms of

quality and quantity, time, and location.

S-Council knows the vendors and suppliers tendency well and covers key

topic issues as KPI, quality control and MRO. Besides, we understand the

significance of procurement in strategic planning, which offer a long-

term view to acquire the benefit. For example, using contracts to set

fixed prices on future purchases of resources may also lower the

acquisition cost of resources.

从日常采购到战略采购，从程序化操作到前瞻规划和部门整合，从合同管理到供

应商系统性评估，S-Council关注采购管理的不同层面知识领域与相关课题。我

们了解客户的公司期望与供应链经理人的发展需求。通过丰富的活动形式，不同

专业人士的分享交流，开拓您的视野和事业。

Procurementin exploration

In the topic of ‘LogisticsNetwork Building’, S-Council has 2 case sharedby GE Healthcare andCelanese who expoundthe real challenge andthought thread on quickrespond distribution, whichis the key factor to thecustomer service. Thesolution provided is highlysignificative from overallsupply chain perspective.

CASE STUDY

Today the complexity of production logistics can be

modeled, analyzed, visualized and optimized by plant simulation

software, but is constantly changing. S-Council recognizes the practice

work are basically similar but unique in the detailed process.

Fortunately, we are supported by hundreds of membership coming from

various industries and corporate, which naturally build a case database

for reference and insights exchange. S-Council make the best use of

these solution as logistics management example that can be shared by

experienced consultants and executives. Undoubtedly, S-Council

concentrates on the authorized report introducing

benchmarking, trend, and industrial analysis to make

dramatic, rapid, and sustainable improvements in supply chain

performance .

现代物流要求更高，需求更多。在快速变革的同时，全面信息化将是物流不久将

来的发展趋势。S-council认识到走在行业前段，需要创新，独到的洞察力和切实

可行的方案。聚集了大量的行业物流经典案例，我们的服务使企业客户从中受益，

更希望抛砖引玉，一同探索供应链物流发展的新标杆。

Logistics solutionAs opportunity

28%

15%11%

11%7%

6%5%

3%14%

Manufacturing

Auto & Space Parts

Chemical

Electronics

Pharmacautical & Medical Device

FMCG

Machinery

Food & Beverage

Others

Our membershipand clients

34%

27%

24%

9% 6%

Sourcing & PurchasingLogisticsSupply ChainTrade ComplianceOperation

Portion

61%

38%

1%

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