Smart Logistics Upgrade Needs To Break Two Barriers To Equipment And Finance

In the past eleven years, China's logistics industry has created a new record. According to the monitoring data of the State Post Office of China, on November 11th, all postal and express enterprises handled 535 million Express items. It is estimated that the volume of postal express business will reach 2 billion 800 million during the peak period of double eleven peak season from 11 to 18.

In November 18th, at the 2019 annual conference of China intelligent manufacturing industry held in Guangzhou, on the basis of intelligent logistics, we further explored the pain points of intelligent logistics and how 5G can solve intellectual logistics problems.

Zhang Jielong, chief financial officer of IOT technology company G7, believes that after years of innovation in management mode, the logistics industry has already created a huge growth bonus. Now management innovation is hard to bring back the high growth in the past. The new breakthrough is upgrading equipment and enhancing efficiency through smart equipment.

Chen Yi, senior director of science and Technology Information Center of China Express Express Group, said that China Unicom has been able to handle more than 10 billion packages in the first year in the world, with more than 100 million daily processing capacity. "How to automate and intelligently reduce the number of users, and at the same time let the package be sent to everyone's hands faster, is very important." Chen Yi revealed that the focus of the China Science and technology sector is to help transshipment and transportation links reduce the cost of 8%-9%.

The express company that pays attention to the intellectualization and automation of the equipment is not only in communication, but also widely used in the Jingdong and Suning.

Zhao Dan, general manager of the sunning logistics R & D center intelligent innovation center, said that Suning has already laid out products such as unmanned warehouses, unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned vehicles. Suning's unmanned storehouse has been iterative for third generations since 2006, and no heavy truck has been used in Suning's own field. However, Zhao Dan believes that the complete pilotless driving is still early in China. "When we consider logistics operations, every link needs artificial intelligence and the application of the Internet of things to enhance efficiency. In fact, every intelligent technology introduced by Suning logistics, or AI, IoT technology, the ultimate goal is to reduce costs and increase efficiency. Zhao Dan said that in 2017, the second generation of sunning Yun warehouse was equipped with unmanned storage construction, picking robots, unmanned forklifts and packaging robots. The operation of the whole warehouse was integrated by unmanned intelligent equipment.

In addition to the express industry, smart equipment has also been armed with larger cargo throughput ports. "The world's first port artificial intelligence tally system, the world's first self driving unmanned cross vehicle co operated with Zhenhua heavy industries, the world's first port Unmanned Container Truck first box operation, and the world's first real all time driverless electric heavy truck Q-Truck to achieve mass production......" West well technology CEO Tan Limin said, so far, 38 ports at home and abroad have used the AI intelligent port products of Xijing technology. China's artificial intelligence technology has stepped out of the laboratory and gradually integrated with the industry to achieve commercial landing in the international arena.

"From the whole industry, we still face policy barriers." Wang Yu, deputy general manager of Southern China logistics and deputy director of logistics planning department of Jingdong, frankly pointed out that intelligent logistics equipment is still in the stage of further exploration and landing. Although in warehouse robots, forklifts, electronic tags and other technologies have matured to the domestic mainstream logistics companies large-scale application stage, but in terms of wearable equipment technology maturity, can not be achieved so that picking members through AR, VR glasses scanning, easy to know where each item placed. Wang Yu said that Jingdong logistics has carried out the distribution of unmanned vehicles in 11 cities across the country, but it also faces equipment immaturity and obstacles in policies and regulations. The highest cost of logistics industry is the last 100 meters. Wang Yu said that the sending terminal already had the intelligent express cabinet solution mode and entered the large-scale application stage, but in the collection link, the courier faced with hundreds of millions of parcel couriers how to weigh and calculate the volume, and there was no domestic cheap and cheap equipment landing.

Zhang Jielong pointed out that the bigger predicament of the logistics industry is that the financial difference of the whole logistics industry is large. "The worst risk people in the industry currently bear the highest cost of capital." Zhang Jielong believes that smart equipment will bring changes, "when equipment can be remotely managed, transactions can also be seen remotely, it can change the configuration of the financial itself." Therefore, Zhang Jielong appealed to intelligent logistics that what is most needed is adequate market competition, so that the technology upgrading can be handed over to the market and enterprises, and the government will support financial innovation.