New Ideas of Smart Logistics under Sharing Economy

In the process of building smart logistics, enterprises have encountered some common problems, such as high development cost, long construction period, having to invest in the operation and maintenance team in the later stage, negotiating platform value-added service providers without the right to speak on price, data supervision compliance, tax increase policy and platform management integration, etc. Based on the above problems, China Federation of Things has built a private cloud of logistics.

In fact, sharing economy and smart logistics are nothing new. Everyone has talked a lot, but we have gained some new knowledge through practice and share it with you here, hoping to bring you some help. Next, it is mainly divided into three parts: the first part, the new trend of logistics industry under the sharing economy; The second part, the necessary conditions to realize smart logistics; The third part, how to build your own new smart logistics ecology.

The new trend of logistics industry under the sharing economy

Internet plus, Big Data and AI are rapidly applied in the industry. The internetization of enterprises has become the main theme.

Internet has changed the organization, business model and efficiency level of traditional logistics in many aspects.

The platformization of resources, the socialization of transportation capacity, the cooperation between upstream and downstream industries, and the reconstruction of logistics ecology are all typical changes brought about by the Internet.

Nowadays, the market needs more accurate and efficient logistics. Under the sharing economy, resources are more fully utilized and marginal costs are lower and lower. The rise of logistics platform makes logistics enterprises face cross-border competition, and traditional logistics enterprises may face the situation of neither technical advantage nor cost advantage; Coupled with the favorable value-added tax policy of car-free carriers, the platform trend has been enhanced, and the platform of logistics enterprises has become a new trend!

Necessary conditions for realizing smart logistics

Now everyone is talking about demand-orientation. Demand has changed from centralized and single to today's personality, diversity and rapid change, and the logistics industry is also changing to demand-orientation.

In order to realize the demand-oriented operation mode, firstly, there must be an interconnected structural organization, which can realize resource sharing and process coordination; Second, the company should have an innovative business model, which is different from what we used to do only in traditional logistics and cross-border integration, such as crossing into finance, insurance, after-market service, etc refueling and so on; Third, the smart technology based on data depends on big data, which can help us make quick decisions and optimize our products, thus improving our service level and better meeting the diverse, fast and personalized needs of customers. These points are inseparable from internet plus, big data and sharing.

Data sharing and resource sharing have brought today's sharing economy.

What the sharing economy says is: the separation of right of use and ownership, and the resources with separated right of use will create higher value. Let's take a look at the changes in the cost of enterprises under the sharing economy. Let's first look at the cost of production factors. For most logistics companies, resources are their primary production factors. After making full use of resources, the marginal contribution will rise. Economically speaking, the marginal cost will drop indefinitely, close to zero, and the cost will be transparent, which will bring obvious advantages.

The second part is transaction cost, which is divided into enterprise management cost and system cost. Now, logistics enterprises adopt platform mode, no longer buy cars, light assets, and use platforms to manage your resources, including upstream and downstream resources, which greatly reduces management costs. The institutional cost is familiar to everyone. Recently, the State Administration of Taxation issued a favorable tax for car-free carriers. Under the sharing economy, the tax cost of the logistics industry and the car-free carrier model is the best. Therefore, the platformization of logistics enterprises and the branding of platform enterprises will become more and more a trend.

If an enterprise wants to become a platform quickly, it also needs to have the following abilities: first, it must have the ability to collect goods and integrate vehicles (often most enterprises only have partial ability to collect goods but not the ability to integrate vehicles); Then there must be the support of logistics platform and the ability of vehicle control, which most enterprises do not have; Finally, there are management and risk compensation capabilities, which most enterprises already have. As mentioned earlier, platformization is the trend, and platform is the core tool to support the ability of resource integration, data exchange and vehicle monitoring of car-free carriers.

At present, after the platformization of enterprises, the following modes of practice have emerged. The first mode is B2B mode, which we are familiar with. Enterprises rely on downstream small and micro enterprises, do not deal with individual drivers without VAT qualification, and use SAAS system to link and manage small and micro enterprises, transfer management responsibilities, share profits, obtain VAT invoices and complete compliance deduction; The difficulty is small and the depth is insufficient, and it depends on many enterprises. In fact, it is a multi-pole car-free carrier model and a general division of labor and cooperation model. This model has simple system design and low management difficulty, but the profit is diluted and the scale growth is weak.

Another is the B2C model, which integrates the management of individual drivers and establishes a management platform for tracking people or cars. Through centralized procurement (such as oil, ETC, etc.), the input deduction invoice is obtained according to the order distribution, corresponding freight and centralized purchase ratio. This model has abundant data and strong expansibility of centralized purchasing service, and a large number of credit economic products are derived. There are also active explorations in the field of commercial supervision.

This model platform has exquisite design, needs refined management, has new profit growth points and strong scale growth. Of course, there is a mixed mode of B2B and B2C, and platform enterprises are not only for carrier enterprises, but also for individual drivers.

How can we create a new ecology of our own intelligent logistics?

First of all, we should upgrade to a platform-based logistics enterprise, cultivate ecological resources, establish a multilateral dialogue mechanism and extensive interconnection, expand transportation capacity, build a network, organize freight transportation and take responsibility. Apply big data to quickly realize the new ecology of smart logistics.

New Ideas of Smart Logistics under Sharing Economy

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