Research On Digital Maturity Evaluation Of Supply Chain Of Automobile Manufacturing Enterprises

Driven by internal and external factors such as the country’s vigorous promotion of the development of the digital economy,the continuous development and maturity of digital technology,the overall overcapacity of the automotive industry,and the increase in personalized consumer demand in the market,the implementation of digital transformation in the automotive industry is a "must" and the "optimal solution" to deal with a series of problems.The automobile manufacturing industry is a discrete manufacturing industry,known as the "industrial pearl" because of the large number of supply chain related enterprises,which has a high influence on China’s national livelihood economy.The digital transformation of the automotive supply chain is facing challenges such as duplicate construction,unclear improvement direction,and poor evaluation of comprehensive level,which has attracted widespread attention from enterprises and society.In the process of digitalization,in order to avoid the shortcoming effect and seek more appropriate methods and paths to achieve collaborative transformation and upgrading,it is necessary to scientifically analyze and evaluate its digital level.How to scientifically and accurately judge the current status of the comprehensive level of digitalization of their supply chain,identify the key factors affecting their improvement,and formulate targeted improvement path plans has become the key to the digital transformation of the supply chain of automobile manufacturing enterprises.Based on the existing research,the evaluation research on digitalization mainly focuses on the evaluation of enterprises’ own level such as the measurement of digital maturity of enterprises and the evaluation of the integration of industrialization and industrialization,and few scholars have carried out research on the digital maturity of the supply chain.Secondly,the construction methods of the evaluation index system for digitization mostly focus on text analysis or subjective description,and the rigor is debatable.In addition,most of the selection of evaluation methods only uses analytic hierarchy,does not take into account the correlation between index factors,and has certain limitations.Based on the analysis of the connotation and essence of digitalization and digital transformation of the supply chain,this paper first uses Vivo to screen and refine the index elements at all levels based on the grounded theory through literature research and expert interviews,and establishes an index system for the digital maturity evaluation of the automotive supply chain after multiple rounds of discussion and revision.Secondly,the steps of AHP-DEMATEL method to determine the comprehensive weight of various indicators and the influence relationship between indicators are introduced.Third,clarify the digital maturity level,characteristics and determination methods of the automotive supply chain;Finally,the above four steps are used to create a digital maturity evaluation model for the automotive supply chain.The results of the evaluation and evaluation of the supply chain of the case enterprises show that the digital maturity evaluation model of the automotive supply chain constructed in this study is feasible,and the evaluation results can better reflect the actual digital maturity of the supply chain of the automotive enterprises.Finally,on the basis of the analysis of the evaluation results,several suggestions are put forward to improve the digital maturity of the supply chain to better promote the digital construction of the supply chain.Compared with the current relevant evaluation models at home and abroad,the evaluation model proposed in this study can better reflect the digital changes in the operation mode of the automotive supply chain scenario and the comprehensive integration and systematic application of digital technology under the background of digital economy,which provides researchers with insights on the emerging phenomenon of digitalization in the automotive industry,and also provides methods and tools for manufacturing enterprises and other enterprises to evaluate the comprehensive level of supply chain digitalization,which is helpful to understand the shortcomings in their own digital supply chain construction and further effectively plan the construction path of digital supply chain.