On September 4, Shanghai Laiyifen Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "Laiyifen") and Fourth Paradigm (Beijing) Technology Co., LTD. (hereinafter referred to as "Fourth Paradigm") held a strategic cooperation signing ceremony at Laiyifen headquarters in Shanghai. Both parties will rely on comprehensive AI capabilities such as AIOS, an enterprise-class AI operating system released by the fourth paradigm, Tianshu, an online intelligent operation system, and SageOne, an AI computing platform, to realize intelligent upgrading of multiple business scenarios such as supply chain management, online operation, and store location. Lai Yifan Chairman Shi Yonglei, Vice President Zhou Chenjun, Vice President Lu Shungang, chairman special assistant and Vice President Xiang Minghui, Fourth Paradigm founder and CEO Dai Wenyuan, President Pei Yousi, co-founder and chief architect Hu Shiwei, sales Vice President He Ning and other relevant leaders attended the signing ceremony.
The picture shows the signing ceremony
Lai Yifen is a pioneer in China's snack food chain industry, with more than 2,800 stores and 30 million members across the country. Since 2017, Laiyshare has fully accelerated its online and offline all-channel transformation layout. At present, it has got through the cooperation of Laiyshare APP, Tmall, Jingdong, Suning and other platforms, covering multiple consumption scenes such as in-store, in-home, one-hour express and community group, and has spawned the characteristic business model such as community complex. Comply with the development trend of new retail and meet the personalized needs of customer groups.
At the beginning of the meeting, Shi Yonglei, chairman of Laiyifan, gave a speech. Shi Dong said: In the past few years, Laiyifan has taken the lead in completing the informationization layout. In the face of today's multi-scene, diversified and personalized consumer demand, we believe that the future of retail will definitely change from flow thinking to precise thinking, from how many people enter the store today to who enters the store today. Behind this, artificial intelligence is the key to realize the precision operation of consumers, so we need a more powerful technology platform to support the intelligent transformation strategy of online and offline scenes. The fourth paradigm AI platform is highly in line with our strategic goals. Today's paradigm enables all of our algorithms, computing power and other AI technologies. In the future, both of us will create new business scenarios and business models, and jointly create a benchmark for a new form of smart retail.
The picture shows Shi Yonglei, chairman of Lai Yifen, delivering a speech at the scene
Speaking about the cooperation between the two parties, Dai Wenyuan, founder and CEO of Fourth Paradigm, said: Lai Yifan is a very technologically forward-looking retail company. On the road of intelligent transformation, they insist on being the creator of overall value rather than the exporter of fragment value, which means that their understanding of intelligence is not just an attempt of one or two scenes, but a process of rebuilding enterprise value -- including upgrading from commodity operation to consumer operation. The supply chain system developed in the market for more than 20 years will be reinvigorated into an efficient and agile intelligent supply chain. It is a great honor for the Fourth Paradigm to become an important partner in the overall intelligent transformation of Laiyifan, to carry out comprehensive cooperation from top-level design to the implementation of business scenarios, and to witness the commercial innovation of China's retail giants in the AI era.
The picture shows Dai Wenyuan, founder and CEO of the Fourth Paradigm, delivering a speech
It is reported that the cooperation between the two parties will help Lai Yifen do a good job in the whole area of data connection and online operation, and realize the precision of service through the fourth paradigm enterprise AI platform and computing power, as well as the accumulated experience in the Internet field. At the same time, the supply chain system is reconstructed to realize the efficiency. Taking online operation as an example, the fourth normal form Tianshu platform will be used to realize intelligent recommendation of "thousands of faces" and precise identification of high-value users, so as to improve online user retention and transformation. In terms of supply chain, the smart supply chain system can realize the fine management of goods, improve the timeliness and accuracy of store replenishment and purchase orders, reduce inventory pressure and revitalize enterprise cash flow. In addition, the two sides also cooperate in store location, and the AI-based multidimensional data is refined into the intelligent location of stores in each community, greatly improving the success rate of store opening.
Laiyifen is the earliest brand to launch information management in the snack industry. Twenty years of deep cultivation in the industry has made Laiyifen a company that stands tall and sees far. On the occasion of its 20th birthday, Lai Yifen has chosen to join hands with the fourth paradigm and set sail on the intelligent retail platform with artificial intelligence as the core engine. In the future, the two sides will continue to deepen exploration on the construction of an omni-channel integrated AI platform, jointly promote the effective integration of artificial intelligence and retail business, and jointly create a model of a new form of smart retail.
