China's biggest AI conference kicks off this week

China kicks off its annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai this week in a showcase of Beijing's AI ambitions amid a deepening technological rivalry with the US.

The annual event, which is hosted by several government ministries, has attracted China's top AI firms and institutions. The published agenda that runs from Thursday to Saturday is dominated by local firms and speakers, with some big international names conspicuously missing. Most notably, Microsoft-backed OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, will not be in attendance.

With domestic regulators flagging risks about generative AI, ChatGPT and similar services such as Google's Bard are unlikely to be allowed into the Chinese market, making AI another closed garden inside the Great Firewall that could benefit local tech giants.

Apple supply chain in China hit by lockdowns as key partner suspends production in Shanghai, Kunshan

 Apple's supply chain is facing extended disruptions caused by China's strict Covid-19 control measures, after the US giant's second-largest Chinese assembly plant suspended production at key factories in Shanghai and nearby Kunshan.

Pegatron Corporation, a major electronics manufacturing service provider for Apple, has stopped making computers, communication devices and consumer electronics for branded vendors in Kunshan, a manufacturing base in the coastal Chinese province of Jiangsu, since the city entered a lockdown a week ago.

Shanghai lockdown snarls world's busiest port and China supply chains

 Shanghai's grinding coronavirus lockdown is slowly clogging China's supply chains, as delays hit the world's busiest container port where staff are tangled in a morass of Covid controls.

Beijing has refused to tack away from its strict zero-Covid strategy that has protected its public health system through the pandemic but at a mounting economic cost.

China's financial hub Shanghai -- home to multinational firms and its busiest port -- has been sealed off almost entirely for a week following an outbreak fuelled by the Omicron virus variant.

That has forced many companies to halt production and slow new projects, factories told AFP, while those still operating are struggling with a shortage of truck drivers on top of onerous permit and Covid testing requirements.

At Shanghai's port, the lack of drivers and other workers means getting goods in and out is increasingly hard.

The docks are working normally with a "single-digit" number of vessels waiting to berth, Shanghai International Port Group said this week.

Covid outbreak at Shanghai Shenzhen Hong Kong China. How to mange the logistics delay during the lockdown for on-time delivery and on-demand inspection

Rising Covid cases and lockdowns in Shanghai. Shenzhen, Hong Kong in China have caused logitics cargo delays in coming weeks.

Purchase Order (PO) ordered from United Kingdom, United State, New Zealand and world and delivery in March/April is facing significant delay. Cargo Vessel congestion keep build up in past few weeks.

With the latest ERP system's features, the integration with logistics cargo provider provided On-Time scheduling and container loading CBM calculator. And On-Time-On-Demand inspection scheduling provided quick response to the both buyer and seller of the products ordered.

Integration means acting fast. Want to now more? Schedule demo meeting now.

Managing your order from Shanghai China During the COVID 19 Coronavirus Outbreak with Order Management System and online Inspection booking system from Singapore and London

Sales Order (SO) from London, UK, Purchase Order (PO) to our vendors' factories all these are running smooth. The orders keep increasing in past months (yes. UK really need order the un-stock products).

Inspectors sent over to vendors' factories via online inspection booking is running smooth since our vendor access the online inspection booking module on the order management system.

The SO management module/ PO management module and Packing list modules integrated with forwarders' system via API.

The next step is the mobile inspection API integration with the 3rd party inspector system. Will complete by end of summer. Good luck.

Inspection Booking and Management case study in Shanghai and London in 2020 affecting world wide by COVID 19

Inspection Booking and Management case study in Shanghai and London in 2020. Starting from beginning 2020, COVID 19 has been spread world wild whatever you are in asia, america or europe region.

Before containers loading in our commonly used forwarders, the resumed factories in China (shenzhen , guangzhou, suzhou, etc) has completed most of the order line production before end of May. Then for QA/QC in-house policy, oversea inspectors will sent to the local factories by May before the packing list shipment finish. The inline inspection / 1st inspection / 2nd re-inspection / final inspection and in-batch inspection need to be completed ASAP base on the merchandiser purchase order in order to meet the inspection deadline. Factories are still preparing the test report, seal sample and QC tech file as soon as the inspectors come.

Please contact us for the latest updates / ask for quotation for inspection booking with order management system or schedule a demo at http://www.ic.com.hk/contact-us/

Online Booking Forwarders / Containers after factories resumed. Shipping from Shanghai to London under COVID 19 working remotely from home

After Shanghai and factories locked down in very short period of time, the order from UK is now ready to ship. Meanwhile, most companies in UK, Hong Kong and Shanghai are serving only limited time weekly. Same as other companies in Hong Kong, UK and China, the ERP product life-cycle order management system is control most of the trouble tasks remotely.

From the initial stage customer purchase order from UK, to suppliers manufacturing in factories and completed the production. Then online inspection booking and product inspection completed. Then shipment forwarder online booking. All these steps can be finished at home working days under COVID 19 working remotely from home.

How inspectors in Shanghai, Hong Kong HK travel to factory with instant PO (Factory Order/Purchase Order) under wuhan coronavirus

Under the wuhan coronavirus attack, our in-house inspectors / third party inspectors have difficulties to visit factories in Shenzhen and suzhou for product inspection jobs before shipment/packing list to UK even scheduled job inspection in ERP system. Factories are supposed to resume after Chinese new year and the manufacturing process will be completed in coming months.

Work from home WFH under Coronavirus in Hong Kong HK, Shanghai, Beijing and UK

Due to the coronavirus outbreak in wuhan city, after Chinese New Year in Shanghai, the people of buying office of UK-based huge online retailer in Shanghai started their "working from home" (WFH) for a week with the Order Management System and ERP System. They are all working from home and communicate with resumed factories and UK head office and Hong Kong/Beijing local office. While there is new order requested from UK day-to-day with variety of products, the data-powered "Vendor / Customer / Inspector Companies" modules and  "Merchandising Products Master Database" modules save their workload tracking the back-order.

More information from http://www.pro-quali.com/features/general-feature-list/

Shanghai car emissions

According to the new VI B standard, the carbon monoxide emission of cars should not exceed 500 mg/km, and the oxynitride emission should not exceed 35 mg/km.

Source: https://news.metal.com/newscontent/100925008/shanghai-to-intensify-car-emissions-standards-in-jul/

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