Lin Tao, General Manager, introduced: KSM Mall (www.casmart.com.cn) is a vertical B2B+020 third-party e-commerce platform in the field of scientific research, which is the first one in China to be established by CAS to solve the problem of the "three difficulties" of scientific research materials (difficult procurement, difficult supervision, difficult accounting). The business of the platform covers reagents, consumables, scientific research instruments, experimental technical services, office supplies, electronic components, gases, etc. Through the Internet means, combined with online and offline services, it provides standardized and informatized scientific research transactions, management, information, warehousing, distribution, settlement, financial services, etc. Currently, there are about 19,000 suppliers on the platform. Currently, there are about 19,000 suppliers on the platform, with about 67 million kinds of commodities on the line. In 2014, the price of commodities on the platform was included as the reference standard for national audit. At present, many domestic universities and medical and scientific research institutions are purchasing scientific research materials through Kasma Mall, such as Jinan University, Southern Medical University, Zhujiang Hospital, Guangzhou Health Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Studies and other more than 1,200 purchasing units, which have been praised by the audit authorities, and at the same time, the majority of scientific research workers have also been responded to.
During the discussion, General Manager Lin Tao carefully answered the questions of the participants, and our participants put forward the opinions and suggestions that the platform should be further extended to the medical field, enrich the varieties and strengthen the supervision. (Photo, text / Lin Fengqiang, Cao Xiuli edited / Wang Lijun review / Cai Dingbin)