recently, local supply chains have been greatly affected by the difficult situation. in particular, the personnel allocation, logistics scheduling, and capital chain of enterprises have become particularly tense. the animal husbandry industry, closely related to people's livelihood, is facing the risk of supply interruption. as a key link in the food industry, animal nutrition enterprises are of great significance to whether downstream enterprises can stabilize production and whether consumers can get food supplements in time. adisseo, a leading company in the field of feed additives in the world, has taken a series of health and safety measures to better ensure efficient operation inside and outside the enterprise. during the outbreak of the epidemic, it paid attention to local epidemic prevention policies and quickly started targeted measures to strictly prevent the epidemic and stabilize production, guarding the development of the whole value chain of the food industry.
comprehensive care for employees by giving priority to safety
safety has always been the top priority for adisseo to achieve sustainable development. the health and safety of employees is the solid cornerstone for the stable development and long-term growth of adisseo. moreover, adisseo's most firm and important principle is to ensure the safety of employees, production equipment, products, logistics, and the environment.
since the outbreak of this round of epidemic, adisseo's management has held epidemic prevention and control guidance meetings many times to timely formulate and adjust the latest prevention and control measures according to the epidemic development trend and local epidemic prevention requirements. the health and safety of employees and their families, as well as the stable development of production and sales, are ensured through timely disinfection and sterilization of the office and production environment, regular distribution of protective articles, and publicity of safety protection knowledge.
to reduce employees' worries, adisseo china responded quickly and brought good hope to employees with the care mode of "spiritual food" "material food". after the start of lockdown management, adisseo shanghai labor union actively communicated the source of goods and contacted the transportation. with the assistance of the administrative department, the financial department, the logistics department and the human resources department, three batches of "living material gift bags" were sent to the colleagues in shanghai on april 2, april 7 and april 16, ensuring that the employees can receive the most scarce grain, oil, vegetables and other materials.
on april 2, adisseo held the course on mental health care for all employees and organized professional lecturers to share knowledge and skills related to maintaining mental health with employees online. in the opening speech, mr. wang hao, executive vice president of adisseo great china, cheered for everyone. he thanked everyone for maintaining high work efficiency when working from home and reminded colleagues to strengthen safety protection. employees learning online also actively interacted and shared epidemic prevention experiences after the live broadcast classes, forming a good atmosphere of mutual assistance. at the same time, to maintain communication with each employee and timely understand the status of employees, the company also actively established communication channels, which facilitated employees who encounter difficulties to submit demands internally and relevant departments to organize resources for help, creating a caring and warm working environment for employees.
promoting the healthy and orderly operation with internal and external guarantees
with long-term adherence to work safety and continuous improvement of production and marketing network, adisseo has always been providing a stable and orderly supply of animal nutritional additives to many upstream and downstream customers across the country and even around the world. this persistence has not been interrupted even under the covid-19 pandemic.
in the early stage of the outbreak in shanghai, adisseo's supply chain team quickly took measures to accurately identify and assess potential risks. before the lockdown of major warehouses, the team enabled the supply chain system's normal operation through inventory optimization, protecting the fundamental interests of adisseo and customers. the party members of the adisseo nanjing plant took the initiative to set an example and achieved a distribution rate of 94.4% through sincere cooperation with the sales team, procurement team, and transportation suppliers. to ensure orderly production, operation, and business supply during the epidemic, adisseo's plant in nantong, facing the fierce epidemic, also made efficient arrangements for personnel stationed in the plant and goods moved to the warehouse.
furthermore, with importance attached to the development of company informatization and digitization, adisseo has formed a digital platform with wide coverage, rapid renewal and iteration, and professional demand response by increasing relevant investment. during the epidemic period, the digital platform played a significant role in helping employees' remote office and online cooperation, making it possible for office and plant employees to flexibly switch work modes and ensuring the healthy and orderly operation of all departments.
by strictly abiding by local epidemic prevention policies and reasonably arranging the personnel resident plan of each production base during the lockdown management, adisseo made every effort in the logistics support for the resident staff by rapidly formulating the epidemic prevention plan and actively reserving food and necessities for daily use. moreover, it took the health and safety of employees as the criterion to reasonably arrange the production and marketing work.
ensuring customers' production needs in the form of innovative online services
while dealing with the uncertainty caused by the epidemic situation all over the country, adisseo also kept in mind the mission and responsibilities of the enterprise to actively responded to the national call and made great efforts to maintain the basis of the normal production and marketing order of animal husbandry. in the emergency notice on coordinating the prevention and control of covid-19 pandemic and maintaining the normal production and marketing order of animal husbandry issued recently, the general office of the ministry of agriculture and rural affairs emphasized that "livestock and poultry, meat, eggs and milk products should be included in the protection scope of daily necessities during the epidemic prevention and control period". adisseo, who has an advantageous business layout and profound state-owned assets background in animal nutrition, is duty-bound at this time.
animal nutritional additives play an important role in advancing food quality and safety, reducing environmental impact, and improving animal health and performance. animal nutrition additives currently introduced by adisseo can not only help meet the needs of animals for essential nutrients, but also help animals improve their digestive ability and stabilize the beneficial bacteria in their intestines, thus helping to improve their health. with continuous exploration in these fields, adisseo has played an active role in animal nutrition supplements and feed alternatives. moreover, adisseo, with the hope of driving the overall development of the upstream and downstream of the value chain, is not only committed to developing high-quality products and solutions, but also focuses on the exchange and sharing of advanced technologies in the industry.
during the epidemic period, adisseo launched an innovative online service form. through this service form, it remotely communicated with customers about nutrition-allocated proportion needs, customized nutrient formulas online, and provided complete animal nutrition solutions. in addition, adisseo also held an online technical exchange meeting with large enterprise customers to discuss and jointly explore the future development of the industry. for the public and small and medium-sized business owners, adisseo invited industry experts to provide 6 live broadcast series of breeding technology sharing. this series of online sharing activities have attracted 38,000 people since its first broadcast. the next five live broadcasts will be broadcast successively in the next two weeks. it is expected to attract more attention and participation, thus creating value for more people and realizing the profit vision.
contributing to epidemic prevention by assuming social responsibility
in addition to focusing on the health and safety of employees and creating long-term value for customers in the industry, adisseo undertakes the mission of a leader in key links of the food industry. therefore, adisseo's focus is to promote regional epidemic prevention and undertake social responsibility. helping and supporting each other, adisseo not only prepared protective materials for employees but also prepared a large number of epidemic prevention packages for customers to fight the covid-19 pandemic together. many employees of adisseo also went to the community to help their neighbors and contribute to community epidemic prevention coordination.
focusing on epidemic prevention and stable production in a long-term, safe and flexible way, adisseo still sticks to its duty under the severe epidemic situation and guards the key link of nutrition supply in the food industry. guided by the "holistic view of food", it helps the meat, egg and milk industry to stabilize production, thus ensuring national food supply. the impact of the epidemic is bound to dissipate eventually. by keeping the mission firmly in mind, adisseo will meet the global food demand in a high-quality, economic, safe and sustainable way, and continue to ensure food security to constantly create value for customers, employees and shareholders.