As the main responsible unit for the procurement of imported mines, Shandong Iron and Steel International Trade has fully implemented the requirements of "achieving new breakthroughs in reducing procurement costs, strengthening the coordination between the two bases, and focusing on reducing procurement costs and process costs" put forward by the third quarter working meeting of Shandong Iron and Steel Group. It has continuously strengthened the "accounting" operation, and has taken the initiative to ensure the orientation and courageously strive to calculate the coordinated cost reduction and structural cost reduction, make every effort to reduce the procurement cost of imported ore. From January to November, the main business of Shansteel International Trade purchased 16.39 million dry tons of imported ore, of which 9.1 million dry tons were guaranteed for Laiwu Base and 7.29 million dry tons for Rizhao Base, with an average purchase price of US $110.66/dry ton, outperforming the general index of US $6.30/dry ton, better than the target of US $0.3/dry ton, down US $1.2/dry ton year on year.
Integrate into the integrated operation, calculate the coordinated cost-down account.
"Effectively enhance the sense of responsibility of' Shan Gang is steel, steel is Shan Gang ', take the promotion of business plan management as the overall starting point, strengthen the extreme thinking and struggle spirit, actively integrate into the integrated operation of the main steel industry, and go all out to strive for the upper reaches and take the lead." Li Shian, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and General Manager of Shangang International Trade, said that the "five modernizations" management construction of "key work projects, project management list, list control grid, promotion of implementation mechanism and specialization of team operation" will be continuously implemented. The SBU project team for guaranteed supply and cost reduction of imported mines will be jointly established with Shangang to provide strong support for cost reduction and efficiency increase of the main steel industry through professional management, institutionalized communication and team operation.
Since the beginning of this year, Shandong Iron and Steel International Trade and Shandong Iron and Steel Co., Ltd. have communicated with each other, coordinated with each other and reduced costs. They have successively established a "3212" model for imported ore procurement, a pre-judgment model for imported ore market analysis, a furnace charge structure optimization model, and an inventory management model. They have implemented professional management of pre-plans for imported ore procurement and have continuously refined and corrected deviations in terms of procurement structure, rhythm, spot nodes, spot and ratio; the full cost of imported ore procurement into the integrated operation and control, to achieve the whole process of imported ore procurement can be traced, checked, controllable, to ensure that the market indicators.
"In the context of the downward trend of the steel market, the integrated and coordinated cost reduction jointly carried out with Shansteel International Trade has played an important role in reducing the procurement cost of imported mines and provided a strong guarantee for stable and smooth production and operation." The relevant person in charge of the production management department of Shansteel said.
To play the best "combination fist", calculate the structure to reduce the account.
Since the beginning of this year, in the face of the rising price of imported ore, Shansteel International Trade has fully cooperated with Shansteel to optimize the structure of the furnace charge, playing the best "combination fist", with the advantage of structural cost reduction to hedge the price of imported ore, to achieve a continuous reduction in procurement costs.
In view of the fact that the purchase discount of Sekore has changed from "minimum 14% and maximum 21.5" to "minimum 20.5 and maximum 24%", Shansteel International Trade System analyzes the price change trend of various materials of imported ore, adjusts the purchase strategy in time, and minimizes the cost of imported ore without affecting the quality of production and operation. In Laiwu base, increase the proportion of discount materials such as plug ore, add two economic materials such as mocha powder and printing powder, and purchase 5.7446 million tons of economic materials and discount materials from January to November, accounting for 53.64, up 4% from 2022; In Rizhao Base, gradually reduce the proportion of Malay BRBF and develop new varieties such as FMG mixed powder, low aluminum printing powder, Minas refined powder and kouli powder/block, from January to November, cost reduction and efficiency increase were over 3000 million yuan.
On the basis of structural cost reduction, according to the later demand of production mines, the procurement plan is formulated to form a situation in which long-term association resources, dollar trade mines and port spot trade mines support and complement each other, thus improving the resource guarantee capacity of production mines in the main iron and steel industry. In the third quarter, Shansteel International Trade purchased 1.9195 million tons of long-term/US dollar futures resources, accounting for 61.87 percent, down 0.84 percent from the first half of the year; purchased 92 batches of port spot 1.183 million tons, accounting for 38.13 percent, up 0.84 percent from the first half of the year.