Clothing company Person Morale's storehouse.[Photo by Xia Shengquan]

ERP, also known as "Enterprise Resource Planning," is an enterprise information management system developed for the integrated management of material, capital, and information resources of the manufacturing industry. It is one of the crucial parts of industrial internet applications. With an ERP system, an enterprise can monitor its production, inventory, sales and manage other useful information.

Liang Jiekai, head of the Xinshunyi Printing and Embroidery Factory, said the ERP system can save at least 1.5 million yuan worth of management costs per year for the company while improving its operational efficiency.

Like Xinshunyi, many other companies, such as Person Morale and Huilipu, are undergoing transformations and upgrades to their leveraging industrial internet technologies.

In recent years, Zhongshan has seen a preliminary development in the industrial internet. In 2018, the city was selected to be a pilot zone for industrial internet innovative applications in Guangdong Province.

At the same time, Zhongshan has rolled out a series of action plans to promote "industrial internet plus advanced manufacturing" development and with cloud computing applications. The city has even introduced a national key public service platform for industrial internet construction to push enterprises to use cloud platforms.

Last year, 55 Zhongshan companies applied for service coupons to use the provincial industrial internet cloud platform. Additionally, 220 enterprises completed digital upgrades after starting to use cloud platforms. The city also pushed 6 enterprises to be included into the provincial ecological supply pool of the industrial internet.