Summary of Digital Transformation of Logistics Industry (I)

@ Jia Shaohua

Master of Computer College of Inner Mongolia University;

Former data mining engineer of an IT company;

At present, he is the High Commissioner of a dairy resource planning;

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Member of the Data Creators Alliance.

0 1? background

Logistics is a pillar industry of a country, which provides great support for China's economic development, but there is still a big gap between China's logistics development and the international leading level. Especially when the COVID-19 epidemic came, the logistics industry suffered heavy losses. What should the logistics industry do in response to such a large-scale emergency?

The digital transformation of logistics industry is urgent. The supporting role and orientation of logistics and modern logistics in long-term planning have been mentioned 19 times in the 14th Five-year Plan Outline and the long-term goal in 2035. In particular, the third section of the fifth article "Accelerating Digital Development and Building Digitalization" points out that it is necessary to further promote the digital transformation of the service industry and cultivate new growth points such as smart logistics. Based on this, in February of 2002165438, China Logistics Group Co., Ltd., a new central enterprise with integrated logistics as its main business, was officially unveiled.

Three indicators of digital transformation of logistics;

Time: mainly including transit transportation time, loading and unloading time, product processing time, etc. The static time of logistics mainly includes inventory time, waiting time and car pressing time. Different information will be produced every time. The function of logistics process visualization is to integrate and process all kinds of information, and improve the overall operation efficiency by filtering invalid information.

Performance: Logistics performance reflects the smooth operation of each link and the success of cooperation. Logistics performance indicators can be roughly divided into three categories: the first category is operational indicators, such as inventory turnover; The second category is service level indicators, such as customer complaint rate; The third category is financial indicators, such as profit rate. Through dynamic visualization, logistics performance can measure and optimize the whole business process.

Cost: Logistics cost includes transportation cost, inventory cost, holding cost and management cost. Through visual display, we can intuitively understand the cost composition in the whole logistics process and deeply analyze the composition of logistics costs. It can effectively reduce unreasonable costs and improve the efficiency of the entire supply chain.

02? main problem

At present, the development of China's logistics industry still has a long way to go, mainly in the following aspects:

1. Existing logistics resources, such as logistics talents, warehouses, factories, transport vehicles, etc. Lack of high-level, refined, specialized and compound talents, low utilization rate of warehouses and factories, and low vehicle loading rate.

2. From raw material receiving to factory processing to customer receiving, the logistics industry chain is long and the business is complex, which leads to the digital transformation often focusing on a certain node, ignoring the support of overall logistics process control and visualization.

3. The informationization, low degree of automation and high degree of manual participation in the logistics industry make the foundation of digital transformation weak, unable to form a cluster effect, complicated interpersonal involvement and difficult to promote digitalization.

03? solution

Visualization, traceability, standardization and intelligence are the key to solve the above problems. Visualization mainly involves three aspects: demand visualization, traffic visualization, business process visualization and indicator visualization. Traceability mainly includes demand node traceability, business process node traceability and transportation node traceability. Standardization mainly involves two discussion points: transportation mode and business process standardization. Intelligentization mainly includes the prediction and analysis of potential demand, the optimal matching of transportation routes and zero points.

Visualization:

A. demand visualization: demand visualization includes customer demand visualization and customer visualization. Visualization of customer needs means that enterprises should actively listen to customers' voices and grasp their needs, whether they are existing customers or potential customers. For customers, visualization means that enterprises should always send customers the commodity information they want to know.

B visualization of transportation: visualization of transportation includes visualization of drivers seeing orders, visualization of manufacturers seeing drivers' capacity pool, visualization of in-transit and visualization of business processes. The visualization of driver's order means that the driver or carrier can see the loading information released by the factory from their own PC or mobile phone. Seeing the visualization of the driver's capacity pool means that manufacturers can inquire about the capacity, location, transportation experience, freight and other information of drivers or carriers, and then they can contact the corresponding drivers or carriers according to their own needs, which reduces the cost and assessment process. In-transit visualization means that when the driver inquires about the loading information, he chooses to queue up to enter the factory, then load the goods out of the factory, then upload the in-transit documents, and then unload the goods, thus realizing the whole process of in-transit visualization.

C visualization of business processing flow: visualization of business processing nodes within the company, such as visualization of process nodes for creating issue documents and delivery documents, visualization of dispatching vehicles at the factory end, visualization of loading vehicles, etc.

D. Indicator visualization: display the overall operation of operators in time, and fully understand the overall operation of operators in cities across the country. For the regional level, pay attention to the horizontal comparison of key indicators such as operation, service, efficiency, safety, complaints and satisfaction of factory transportation offices in various regions and cities, as well as the statistical comparative analysis of cost indicators. , and the digital transformation of logistics into headquarters, regional management, providing a variety of key indicators query statistical analysis functions.

Standardization: Standardization mainly includes transportation standardization and business process standardization.

Transport standardization mainly includes the selection of transport modes and the standardization of drivers, vehicles and carriers. Is the choice of transportation mode rail transit? Automobile transportation? Or by sea? Air transport? How to choose the appropriate transportation mode according to the location needs, business needs and national policies to achieve the purpose of increasing efficiency. For drivers, vehicles and carriers, it is necessary to require the qualified rate and compliance rate of vehicles, the qualified rate and compliance rate of drivers and carriers, and comprehensive scores.

The standardization of business process means that at present, various industries in China, taking the logistics industry as an example, artificially promote business progress under the condition of low informatization, which makes it difficult to avoid irregular operation and non-compliant operation in the process of business process processing, which is understandable. Therefore, through the standardization of business processes, on the one hand, business operations can be made more transparent, reasonable, legal and compliant, on the other hand, it also provides support for digital transformation.

Regarding traceability, we will discuss in detail the demand proposal business, the traceability of business process nodes and transportation nodes, the prediction and analysis of potential demand, the best matching of transportation routes, the best matching of spare parts and complete containers, and the best sequencing of unloading manufacturers in intelligence in the second stage.