To further deepen the integration of industry and education and promote the close combination of theory and practice, on the afternoon of March 13, all the students in the intensive class of the 24th cohort in Hefei, under the leadership of Professor Du Jingjing, the deputy dean of the School of Business Administration and the executive director of the MBA/MTA Education Center respectively, Professor Chen Hanhui, the instructor of the course “Data Models and Methods“ respectively, and class adviser Wang Xin respectively, visited the well-known baking enterprise - Anhui Bali Sweet Food Co., Ltd. and carried out a unique enterprise visit and exchange activity. Deng Xiaoming, the deputy general manager of Anhui Caidiexuan Group and the MBA practice tutor of our school, warmly received the teachers and students.

Guided by the person in charge of the Bali Sweet factory, the teachers and students visited the enterprise“s automated production line and warehousing and logistics workshop on the spot, and comprehensively understood the whole process of Bali Sweet products from the precise ratio of raw materials to product forming, from intelligent warehousing to refined logistics distribution.

At the subsequent symposium, the management of Bali Sweet shared valuable experience around core topics that the enterprise is currently facing, including supply chain optimization, digital transformation, and private domain traffic operation. They also carried out in-depth discussions with the teachers and students on issues like store location selection, product innovation, and the application of AI technology. The MBA students all said that this visit to the Caidiexuan brand, which holds the memories of Hefei people, made them feel extremely cordial. Through in-depth exchanges with the enterprise side, they not only gained a further understanding of the development status and competitive landscape of the baking industry, but also deeply felt the important role played by informatization and digitalization in improving the quality and efficiency of enterprises, which benefited them a lot.

This visit activity is a further extension of the “mobile classroom“ (a teaching model that involves on-site learning and interaction outside the traditional classroom setting). Through on-site visits and close exchanges with entrepreneurs, it helps students combine the theories of courses such as enterprise digital transformation, data models and applications with the actual operation scenarios of enterprises, and at the same time builds a sustainable development platform for school-enterprise cooperation.