Chapter 1604 (1/2)
Although William didn't have any official Beijing in China, people's attention was no less than that of the state visit led by foreign countries.
The next day, Li Mu and William visited taobao.com and the storage center and distribution center of Taobao logistics in Yanjing.
Although William was shocked, it was Taobao's warehousing center and logistics distribution center.
Elder martial brother Liu devoted all his energy to the optimization and improvement of the logistics system in this period. Now, the fleet scale, belly warehouse resources and automatic sorting system of Taobao logistics are in a rapid growth period.
In addition, with the rapid development of Taobao business, there are more and more domestic online shopping users, so the whole Taobao logistics has a huge order volume, one third of which is self-supporting or using Taobao warehouse for shipment, and the remaining two thirds are C2C sellers for shipment.
The huge order support has provided strong support for the development of the whole Taobao logistics. Therefore, senior brother Liu's storage center and distribution center have been continuously expanded. A few days ago, he added three stages of orders for a total of 15 automatic sorting systems to Germany. In the future, the whole system will be put into the cities of Guangdong, Zhejiang and Shanghai.
When William came to the sorting center of Yanjing distribution center, he was completely shocked by the modern logistics scene in front of him.
A large number of packages are unpacked, sorted and repackaged here. Then, with the help of the logistics management system developed by Muye technology for Taobao logistics, each included status is recorded and updated in real time.
William saw countless parcels quickly shuttling on the belt conveyor, and said to Li Mu in amazement, ”I feel like I've arrived for more than ten years at once, and I always feel that such an advanced and efficient logistics mode is not the product of this era at all...”
Li Mu said with a smile: ”most of the equipment you see are made in Germany. Germany has had this set of equipment before 2000, but it's not a great thing. The main reason why it hasn't been popularized in the world very quickly is that most countries don't have such a large demand for the transportation capacity of small parts logistics at present, and they don't have that demand for efficiency What's more, the most critical reason why we need such equipment and want to develop automation to the extreme is that we need too much capacity and efficiency for small parts logistics, which is bigger than any other country in the world. ”
Li Mu's remark is not a blatant one. Taobao logistics now carries the daily online shopping and transportation of tens of millions of Chinese online shopping users. The order quantity is basically close to that of Taobao in 2008-2010. This data is very terrible. It means that the growth rate of demand has been advanced five or six years, which forces the way to solve the demand to be advanced five or six years.
In terms of the current global e-commerce retail market, no country can match Taobao. Apart from Huaxia, the largest online retail market is the United States, but the order volume is less than a quarter of Huaxia.
Moreover, one of the most wonderful things about e-commerce in the United States is that no matter the platform side, the seller or the buyer, the requirements for logistics efficiency are very Buddhist.
Even more than ten years later, the logistics efficiency of Huaxia e-commerce is still far ahead of the world. Logistics enterprises like Shunfeng have been able to achieve 24-hour delivery between most cities in the country. If this efficiency is put in the United States, it is unimaginable and even more incomprehensible to Europeans.
As expected, William didn't quite understand Li Mu's explanation. He asked: ”Mr. Li, is the efficiency of this small logistics so important? China is so big. I don't think there is much difference between two-day delivery and four-day delivery. However, in order to achieve two-day delivery, we need to invest a lot of money, manpower and material resources, which will cause a great waste of resources, right? ”
Li Mu said with a smile, ”China is a country with high-speed development. Do you know what a country with high-speed development is most afraid of wasting?”
William asked tentatively, ”resources? Money? Or labor? ”
”Not at all.” Li Mu shook his head and said with a smile, ”it's time.”
After all, Li Mu said: ”you see, Japan, Germany and France all have their own high-speed railway technology. The average train speed is about 100 kilometers per hour, but the high-speed railway can reach more than 200 or even 300 kilometers per hour. When the train reaches more than 200 kilometers, the air resistance will increase huge energy consumption. For example, it is also 500 kilometers The distance, the ordinary railway needs five hours, but the energy consumption is only one third of that of the high-speed railway, but the high-speed railway only needs one hour and 40 minutes, and the energy consumption is three times that of the ordinary railway. However, I believe that the latter is obviously more suitable for the future of China, because we need to seize the time. ”
William nodded knowingly, but in fact, he could not understand Li Mu's extreme pursuit of efficiency.