Intelligent logistics is the use of integrated intelligent technology to enable the logistics system to imitate human intelligence, with the ability to think, perceive, learn, reason and judge and solve certain problems in logistics by itself.
Through the use of automated equipment and information systems, intelligent logistics can independently complete logistics operations including order, transportation, warehousing, and distribution, and achieve economical, efficient, reliable, and environmentally friendly development goals. The following is a detailed introduction to the analysis of the intelligent logistics industry.
With the development of science and technology, it has become an irreversible trend to replace traditional manpower by high technology. If my country wants to seize the development opportunities, it must pay attention to the deep potential of intelligent logistics. Today, the core technology of logistics intelligence, the Internet of Things, is one of the emerging industries that my country focuses on cultivating, and it is also the future backbone of our transportation industry. Under the catalysis of national policy support and key technology public relations, only the logistics industry will usher in an explosion. style development.
1. The historical development trend of my country's logistics industry
Since 2010, my country's logistics industry has maintained rapid growth. By 2013, the total cost of social logistics was 10.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.3%; the total social logistics revenue was 7.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.2%, and the added value of the logistics industry was 3.9 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.5%.
At present, most provinces and cities across the country have established a relatively complete intelligent transportation system, which has realized the network detection of expressways and the dynamic supervision of vehicles. All aspects of China's RFID industry chain have shown a momentum of rapid growth. In 2012, the scale of my country's RFID market reached 23.66 billion yuan, ranking third in the world. In May 2013, Alibaba Group launched the China Smart Logistics Network (ChinasmartLogisticNetwork for short: CSN) project. In July 2014, China Post Group Corporation and Alibaba Group signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to jointly build China's intelligent backbone Internet of Things.
The State Council recently issued the "Long-term Plan for the Development of the Logistics Industry (2014-2020)" (referred to as the "Plan") to deploy and accelerate the development of the modern logistics industry. Orderly modern logistics service system. The "Planning" clearly proposes to "accelerate the development of the public information platform for transportation and logistics", which shows the importance attached to the informatization and intelligent development of the logistics industry.
Logistics is inseparable from transportation, transportation is inseparable from informatization, and transportation information must be interconnected to generate benefits. How to actively promote the sharing of transportation and logistics information and strengthen the development and promotion of interconnected applications is a new work being carried out by the Ministry of Transportation, provincial and municipal transportation departments, and then to enterprises engaged in transportation and logistics.
However, from the perspective of informatization construction, Chinese logistics enterprises are still in a relatively primitive and low-level stage. According to statistics, only 21% of enterprises have implemented or partially implemented informatization, and only 10% of enterprises have fully implemented informatization.
2. Problems faced by the development of the logistics industry
(1) "Social logistics costs are too high" and "logistics enterprise profits are low" coexist. Although the total social logistics in my country has grown rapidly, the total social logistics revenue has grown steadily, and the added value of the logistics industry has grown steadily, but we must see that the price of my country's logistics services is still low and fluctuating, and the profitability of enterprises is weak. In China's logistics industry prosperity index, the main business profit index in December was 50.3%, and the index was 50.6% on average throughout the year, maintaining a low level. According to the survey of key logistics enterprises, from January to November, the main business income of key logistics enterprises increased by 5.3% year-on-year, and the profit margin of main business income was 4.1%, a decrease of 0.9 percentage points compared with the same period of the previous year, and was lower than the scale of the same period. The profit margin of the main business of the above industrial enterprises is 1.4 percentage points. Both sets of data reflect that the profitability of my country's key logistics enterprises is relatively weak.
(2) The problems of "logistics siege" and "last mile" are still prominent. With the acceleration of urbanization, the shortage of logistics infrastructure resources such as warehousing is becoming more and more obvious. At the same time, due to the traffic control of freight vehicles in the city, "road difficulties" The problem of difficult to drive, difficult to park, difficult to unload, and difficult to obtain” has existed for a long time.
(3) The financing of logistics enterprises is difficult, and the competition in the logistics market is becoming increasingly fierce. Most logistics enterprises are asset-light enterprises, and it is difficult to obtain mortgage loans and insufficient funds have restricted the rapid development of the logistics industry. Most of my country's logistics enterprises are small in scale, weak in strength and low in ability, and are in a disadvantageous position in the market competition with large international logistics companies.
(4) The level of technology is low. On the one hand, the e-commerce of Chinese distribution enterprises still belongs to the closed-run e-commerce information of "single households", and has not formed a network platform for information resource sharing and industry, and the gap with world-class distribution enterprises is still very large; on the other hand, , my country lacks an information integration platform connecting manufacturers, retailers, and customers, resulting in a long industrial chain, and multinational companies cannot communicate directly with customers on the information platform, resulting in very low logistics efficiency.
3. The development trend of the logistics industry in the future
At present, the vigorous development of a new generation of information technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and mobile Internet is driving the transformation of China's intelligent logistics. It can be said that intelligent logistics will be the next stop of information logistics. Logistics informatization includes two major points: the collection of basic information, the sharing and exchange of information. For more related content, please refer to the 2015 Logistics Industry Development Trends released by the China Report Hall.
First, in terms of basic information collection, a large amount of our information still relies on manual input, so there are problems such as low efficiency, high error rate, and untimely update, which affect the entire transmission and application in the later stage, which is the basis of informatization. At present, most of the solutions we take are to use RFID in logistics equipment, and indirectly grasp the information of commodities through dynamic tracking and identification, instead of applying RFID technology to every commodity at once.
In the national medium and long-term scientific and technological planning research, informatization and standardization are listed as the two most important key technologies of logistics technology. The government and management departments at all levels should also strengthen the construction of the basic environment, including formulating logistics informatization plans and corresponding laws, regulations, systems, standards, and norms, and carrying out research and development of key logistics technologies and exploration of application models, as well as infrastructure such as communications and networks. facility construction.
Second, build a logistics public information platform, form a platform-based information exchange and sharing system, create a logistics information "highway", break information islands, and promote information exchange and sharing between different departments, different regions, and upstream and downstream of the supply chain. The establishment of a public platform has become a consensus, and everyone is calling for information integration. At present, in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Transport, many provinces and cities across the country have built public information platforms for transportation and logistics, established relevant standards and norms for information interconnection, and built a basic exchange network for logistics information. However, people sometimes understand the public information platform as a tangible organization, a centralized information storage and management organization, or a centralized management database. I think this understanding is biased. For a system, there are many levels of work to be done. It may be necessary to establish some necessary centralized management databases, but it is more of a mechanism and a model for information exchange and information sharing. Therefore, the platform is actually to create a way and environment for information exchange and information sharing.
The logistics industry is gradually forming seven development trends, which are informatization, intelligence, environmental protection, enterprise globalization and internationalization, service quality, industrial collaboration and third-party logistics. With the in-depth development of global integration and the in-depth application of Internet and Internet of Things technologies, intelligent logistics will usher in a new historical development opportunity.
