Guangzhou Sie Consulting Co.Ltd(300687) 4 the annual report of 2021 was released on the evening of April 27. Last year, the company's main business related to the digital transformation of manufacturing industry and intelligent manufacturing upgrading developed well. The annual operating revenue was RMB 1.935 billion, with a year-on-year increase of 39.68%, and the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies was RMB 225 million, with a year-on-year increase of 27.53%. If the impact of about 36.84 million yuan of share based payment expenses is deducted, the profit growth rate will reach 45.6%, Business development continued to maintain a rapid upward trend.
On the market operation side, the company actively implements the regional expansion strategy, actively arranges economically active regions such as Wuhan, Xiamen and Chongqing, and constructs a regional local sales team to expand the sales coverage covering central, Southeast and southwest China. The scale of order signing has increased well compared with previous years. By the end of the year, the company had signed more than 2.5 billion new orders, with a year-on-year increase of about 39%, serving more than 800 customers.
The business development of the company's intelligent manufacturing sector maintained a good growth rate throughout the year. In 2021, the operating revenue increased by 43.23% year-on-year, and the proportion of revenue increased to 30.59% from 29.83% in the same period last year; Thanks to the continuous improvement of product modularity and industry suite standardization, as well as the continuous optimization of relevant prototype implementation methodology, the gross profit margin of the sector has increased steadily, from 41.03% in the same period last year to 42.12%, and its contribution to the profitability of the company's main business is being reflected step by step. The company continued to consolidate its industrial advantages in the field of electronic high-tech and mechanical equipment, and continued to cut into industries with hard science and technology background and high landscape. During the year, the company's mature products entered new industry value customers for the first time, and continuously obtained intelligent manufacturing orders from industry leading customers in the field of semiconductor sealing and testing and medical devices, making a breakthrough, The company will provide high-quality services through the saturated input of resources in the implementation of benchmarking projects to establish lighthouse factories, so as to lay a good foundation for the subsequent replication and expansion of plans in the same industry and commercial success.
The pan ERP business grew faster than the annual plan, benefiting from the improvement of industry concentration caused by the reduction of core ERP industry participants and the continuous optimization of operation ability by the management team. The company has abundant orders in this field, achieved high business growth, and the operating revenue increased by 37.07% year-on-year, significantly higher than the growth rate of the previous year. The growth rate of the business in the sector exceeded the management's planning expectation at the beginning of the year. During the reporting period, the company actively improved the product layout in the application field of digital middle platform, continued to increase the investment in product R & D in the field of middle platform, strengthened the efforts to create digital operation middle platform with head customers, and constantly met the business operation innovation needs of customers that need to be flexible and agile in the complex and rapidly changing business environment.
The company further increased its R & D investment. During the reporting period, the company invested 296 million yuan in R & D, accounting for 15.32% of the operating revenue, with a year-on-year increase of 76.49%. In 2021, the company added 106 software copyrights, and 296 software copyrights as of December 31, 2021; Two new invention patents were added in 2021, and a total of 13 invention patents were added as of December 31, 2021.
