February 6, 2024

Shanghai, China - ZKH Group (NYSE: ZKH), China's leading MRO procurement service platform, today announced the integration of DeepSeekV3 model into its AI product - AI MRO Manager. This upgrade empowers enterprises with enhanced capabilities in managing massive material data, bringing revolutionary improvements to industrial supply chain management.

As the industry's first generative AI tool dedicated to enterprise material management, the AI MRO Manager now leverages DeepSeek V3's advanced reasoning capabilities to optimize its MoE Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. This integration significantly improves the system’s accuracy in material identification and data supplementation—boosting recognition rates from 60% to over 90%. Future updates will enable users to provide real-time feedback on analysis results and engage in AI-driven consultations via chat functionality for material and product inquiries.

The rapid evolution of generative AI is driving transformative changes in industrial supply chain intelligence. With years of experience in platform operations and a database of over 17 million SKUs, ZKH has developed a unique data advantage, building a generative large model tailored specifically to the industrial supply chain sector.

The Demo Of The AI MRO Manager

The Impact And Benefits Of Integrating DeepSeek Into Our Product And Service

1. Enhanced AI Capabilities

Following the integration with DeepSeek’s reasoning capabilities, the accuracy of material identification and analysis in the AI MRO Manager has increased dramatically, from 60% to over 90%. DeepSeek’s inference power further strengthens the AI tool’s abilities in data analysis, understanding customer needs, and matching supply and demand, ultimately providing our clients with higher quality and more efficient services.

2. Accelerated Client Acquisition

Many of our customers and suppliers lack the ability to build their own digital and AI platforms. After announcing the integration with DeepSeek, we received over 300 new client requests within a few days. Among these, over 40 were new clients. This demonstrates that our practical experience with foundational AI models helps us attract new clients on a larger scale.

3. Driving Internal System Transformation

In the future, reasoning-based foundational models, such as DeepSeek, will be deeply embedded within our internal digital systems. We are actively restructuring our IT systems, shifting from human-initiated processes to AI agents that autonomously complete tasks, notifying humans only when confirmation is required. This transition from “assisted driving” to “autonomous driving” is expected to significantly improve organizational efficiency. Work has already begun in several areas, and we anticipate substantial productivity gains.

The Bigger Picture

About ZKH

ZKH is a digital industrial service platform as well as a product company, providing customers with a one-stop solution of industrial products procurement and management, realizing transparency, efficiency and cost-reduction of industrial supply chain. ZKH provides a wide range of Spare Parts, General Consumables, Office Supplies, Manufacturing Assembly, Chemicals, including 32 dominant product lines with SKUs exceeding 17 million.