/PRZWT/On November 23rd, the "Digital and Intelligent Flavors Come - Guangxi Catering Supply Chain Innovation Matching Conference", hosted by the Guangxi Culinary and Catering Industry Association, was successfully held in Baise City.
This event, as an important part of the 2025 Guangxi Catering Culture Week, with the theme of "Exploring the Flavors of Zhuang Autonomous Region ·AI Brings Flavors", focused on the innovative application of AI technology in the catering supply chain field, attracting numerous industry representatives from both within and outside the region, including catering enterprises, food ingredient suppliers, and technology service providers.
As a specially invited opening speaker at the conference, Quanlai Store was officially invited by the Guangxi Culinary and Catering Industry Association to deliver a keynote speech titled "Digital Intelligence Empowerment · Linking the Future - AI Applications in the Catering Supply Chain". The speech delved deeply into three aspects: industry trends, supply chain transformation, and AI application scenarios. It has brought forward-looking thinking and practical experience to the intelligent upgrade of the catering industry in Guangxi.
01 Focus on Industry Trends: The wave of chain operation is accelerating, and the supply chain has become a decisive force
Zhao Yun, a senior industry expert from Quanlaidian, pointed out in his keynote speech that Quanlaidian first conducted an in-depth analysis of the landscape of China's catering industry from 2024 to 2025 based on data from authoritative institutions:
The rate of chain operation in the catering industry has risen from 12% in 2018 to 22% in 2024, and there is still huge room for improvement.
The proportion of catering stores in third-tier and lower cities across the country exceeds 52%, and the growth of the lower-tier market is rapid.
Low average transaction value and ultimate cost performance have become the mainstream of consumption. Enterprises need to support sustainable price range competition with supply chain efficiency.
A large number of brands still face the challenge of cross-city expansion. Only the "10,000-store brands" that truly possess the capacity for supply chain scale can weather the cycle.
Against this backdrop, Quanlaidian pointed out that supply chain capabilities have become the core competitiveness of chain brands, and AI-driven digital and intelligent supply chains will become the key engine for industrial upgrading in the next five years.
02 From Digitalization to Intelligence: The catering supply chain enters a new stage driven by AI
Combining a large number of enterprise cases and system practices, Quanlaidian systematically presented the five development stages of digital and intelligent transformation of the catering supply chain at the conference - from basic digitalization, process transparency to intelligent prediction, full-chain collaboration and ecological connection.
Centering on "AI Empowering Industrial Upgrading", Quanlaidian focused on sharing several typical application scenarios:
Intelligent ordering and demand forecasting
The AI prediction model has reduced the raw material loss rate from 8% to 5%
Inventory turnover has been shortened from 7 days to 4 days
Store orders are more precise, reducing shortages and slow-moving items
Intelligent warehousing and expiration date management
Realized through technologies such as RFID, image recognition, and voice recognition:
"Real-time inventory"
· Expiration date countdown management
The verification accuracy rate reached 99%, significantly enhancing the efficiency of stores and warehouses
Intelligent cost analysis and business decision-making
· Automated cost accounting
· Price fluctuation analysis
Gross profit sensitivity monitoring helps the headquarters management to drive business strategies with data
Full-chain data visualization and collaboration
The entire chain of planning management, procurement management, warehouse management and logistics distribution is fully integrated
· Multi-role real-time visualization of inventory
The order center uniformly manages multi-channel traffic, providing a standardized and replicable system foundation for chain expansion
Quanlai Store emphasizes: "Future catering managers will shift from experience-driven to intelligent decision-making." The resilience and efficiency of the supply chain will be determined by AI capabilities.
03 Building an Ecological SaaS: Facilitating high-quality Growth for Guangxi's Catering Enterprises
In the speech, Quanlaidian, based on its own SaaS system, shared how it collaborates with ecosystem partners to jointly build full-chain capabilities, including:
·ERP ecosystem collaboration
· Interconnection of supply chain service ecosystems
· Cold chain and warehousing distribution collaboration
Deep integration of operational capabilities such as marketing, membership, and store operations
Ecological SaaS represented by Quanlaidian is evolving from a tool provider to a "digital builder and ecological linker for catering enterprises".
04 Empower Guangxi's catering industry and move towards a new stage of intelligence
The Guangxi Catering Culture Week showcased the regional charm and future potential of Guangxi's catering industry through an integrated model of "culture + cuisine + technology + tourism". At this supply chain innovation matchmaking event, Quanlaidian's sharing received high attention from the participating enterprises. Several Guangxi catering brands engaged in matchmaking and negotiation on the digital upgrade of the supply chain during the free exchange session.
In the future, Quanlaidian will continue to leverage its product and technological advantages in the field of digital and intelligent catering. Together with the Guangxi Culinary and Catering Industry Association and industrial partners, it will promote Guangxi's catering enterprises to move towards a more efficient, intelligent and sustainable supply chain management model, and contribute digital power to the construction of Guangxi as a "strong catering region".
