Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications

The overall goal of transformations at Huawei is 
to “grow the harvest and increase soil fertility”. In 
the face of new internal and external pressures, 
including the pandemic, Huawei has leveraged 
digital technologies to safeguard its business 
continuity and developed new operations systems 
and digital platforms to continue supporting 
business operations.
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Ensuring business continuity with 
digitalization:
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Through a unified foundational data platform, 
Huawei has built more than 550 logical 
data entities, established over 11 billion 
instance-level graphical model nodes and 
relations, and modularized over 100 public data 
services.
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Huawei ensures orderly supply operations 
and controls supply risks through responsive 
supply based on orders and risk management 
for 24 business continuity scenarios. Among 
these scenarios, breakdown of bills of materials 
(BOMs) and determination of country of 
origin are rated as premium services and can 
effectively address requirements from multiple 
domains, including R&D, supply chain, and 
consumer products.
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Referencing dynamic changes to various factors 
of supply restrictions and stricter compliance 
rules within the company, Huawei has 
developed multi-version integrated planning 
and full-set delivery capabilities, performed 
online management and review for component 
and board version switches, and created a 
system that issues early warnings for risks in 
any production links that might lag behind.

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2020 Annual Report
 
       
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Huawei has developed a de minimis calculation 
tool for its orders as well as a tool for 
intercompany transactions that can re-configure 
to changes to de minimis rules within 30 
minutes. The tools are then able to provide 
automated, real-time calculations for new 
orders placed after a change, and initialize data 
of historical orders within eight hours. This 
ensures all orders are compliant regardless of 
potential rule changes.
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Huawei has improved its ability to assess 
resilience of its global supply network and 
leverage simulations to recommend adjustment 
solutions, significantly improving supply network 
resilience.
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Where resource availability was previously only 
updated every few days, Huawei has created 
better transportation resource simulations that 
can now update resource availability within 
hours, enabling faster recommendations of 
optimal resource solutions.
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New pressures in 2020, including the 
pandemic, prompted Huawei to develop new 
operations systems and digital platforms to 
support continuous business operations.
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