Summary: Lan-you Technology attended the 14th International Automotive Industry X.0 Summit 2025

On November 13-14, the 14th International Automotive Industry X.0 Summit 2025 themed “Eco-friendliness, Digitalization and Sustainability” held in Shanghai focused on frontier topics such as intelligent manufacturing, digital intelligence transformation, new processes, new materials, green manufacturing, and the global supply chain. Gathering over 300 global automotive manufacturing leaders, it aimed to integrate upstream, midstream and downstream innovation resources in the industry chain, and create a new future of automotive manufacturing together!

Xiao Yuan, Director of Product Forward Research Department, Lan-you Technology Industry Cloud R&D Center, delivered the keynote speech titled “Breakthroughs in Globalization: Lan-you’s G-LES + AI Empowering Automakers’ New Going Global Strategies”, analyzing the trends and challenges of going global of the Chinese automotive industry, and sharing Lan-you Technology’s digital intelligence empowerment solutions and practical achievements driven by the “G-LES international supply chain platform + AI intelligent manufacturing platform”.

Chinese automakers have entered the new stage of “capacity + industry chain going global”

With the expansion of exports, Chinese automakers have entered the new stage of “capacity going global” and “industry chain going global” from single-minded “product going global”. Xiao Yuan pointed out that building factories overseas has significant economic advantages: When the capacity utilization rate reaches 50%, overseas factories can achieve positive gross profit margins; when it exceeds 60%, their gross profit margins will exceeds those of domestic sales; when it reaches 80%, their gross profit margins will be far ahead of those of domestic sales, highlighting the long-term value of overseas localized production.

Depending on the scope and organizational form of supply chain management, automakers will have multiple trade modes when going global, where digital systems are required to support needs for multiple organizations, multiple trade modes, etc. The digital intelligence goal of international supply chains is to streamline global industry chain planning and execution through a unified foundation.

Lan-you G-LES international supply chain platform: Building a digital intelligence foundation for global operations

Based on the “intelligent, configurable, visualized and platform-based” system development strategy, Lan-you Technology has built the modular digitally intelligent supply chain platform G-LES, which supports the three major scenarios of product going global, capacity going global, and industry chain going global, and covers full-value-chain services from order submission, plan issuance, supply collaboration, material delivery, manufacturing collaboration, packaging, and transport to delivery and settlement, achieving goals such as global parts supply, global vehicle resource sharing, and the alignment of industry clusters across bases.

The Lan-you G-LES platform has made achievements in practical applications of multiple automakers:

  The international export spare parts management platform of an automaker: To address the existing problems of extensive parts management, the lack of supply chain transparency, and the lack of a unified platform for operational management of an automaker, Lan-you Technology has established a global spare parts management platform, achieving the global one-code tracing of spare parts, full-process transparency and visibility, support for multi-country, multi-trade-mode and multi-order collaboration, and improving the response efficiency and service capacity of the spare parts supply chain significantly.

  The KD-OTD management system of an automaker: An automaker requires full-process tracking and management from order submission to overseas delivery in the KD business to achieve the goals of on-time delivery, process transparency, efficiency improvement, and process driving. Lan-you Technology has established a KD-OTD management system to form a full-process business management architecture of material, information, capital and product flows from order submission to delivery, make key business nodes fully online, and achieve data transparency and visibility throughout the chain, supporting the rapid expansion of the KD business strongly.

  The LMS system of the Thailand factory of a domestic automaker: For the localization need of an automaker to build a factory in Thailand, Lan-you Technology has established a unified supply chain management platform covering customs management, container station management, local supply coordination, and the storage and distribution management of five major workshops based on local laws and regulations in Thailand. It achieves the alignment of Tier-1/2 parts enterprises with plans of overseas factories, providing a solid guarantee mechanism for capacity going global.

AI intelligent manufacturing platform: From local exploration to all-domain empowerment

Lan-you’s AI application is shifting from local exploration to in-depth penetration into all business fields of “research, production, supply, marketing and service”, and a collaborative model ecosystem of “self-research as the foundation, joint research for breakthroughs, and empowerment by co-creation” has been established. Xiao Yuan introduced Lan-you Technology’s innovative applications in the field of the AI intelligent manufacturing supply chain, including automatic inbound and outbound material transfers, automatic inventory taking, production-marketing coordination analysis, supply logistics management, spare parts prediction, business process intelligence, and supply chain risk warning, enabling automakers to achieve precise control, intelligent decision-making and efficiency improvement in all aspects of the supply chain.

The Chinese automotive industry is entering a critical period of globalization. Faced with the complex and changeful international environment, and the challenges of industry chain collaboration, Lan-you Technology will help Chinese automakers with the in-depth transformation to globalization from “going out” to “going in” through the dual empowerment of “platform building + intelligence”.