JD.com, Sinopec Anhui tie up for supply chain services

Sinopec’s 1,400 Easy Joy stores will be turned into JD’s pick-up stations.

The Anhui province branch of China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) has partnered with JD.com to cooperate on a series of supply chain services and promote omni-channel business, the e-commerce platform said in a news release.

The two companies plan to turn Sinopec’s 1,400 Easy Joy convenience stores into JD.com’s pick-up stations. JD will leverage its supply chain services and technology to help Sinopec Anhui  raise efficiency and lower cost, the company said.

At the same time, JD and Sinopec will explore retail store operation, business-to-business (B2B) and business procurement, joint marketing and auto-market product supply, so on and so forth, based on the Easy Joy convenience store.

“Business opportunities in the area of digital membership, digital transformation and digital operations will also be explored,” JD said.

In the future, JD and Sinopec are expected to deal with more consumption scenarios and models to realise the digital transformation of gas stations.