In March this year, Jingdong logistics X business department "X storage brain" appeared in public. The system not only has many abilities, such as commodity prediction, data analysis, independent decision making, but also can self perceive, so as to realize the self adaptation of robot health, the cloud management of the system and the automatic adaptation of mass logistics scene. This year 618, Suning logistics in order to "make goods closer to consumers", opened 5 logistics centers in Nanchang, Changsha, Qingdao, Shijiazhuang and Nanning. The operation of the 5 logistics center bases will bring about a time frame improvement for more than 40 districts and counties in five districts. At present, only the self built logistics product express delivery company under the banner of the only product reaches 3 million square meters, and 6 intelligent storage centers in the world are put into use. In May 31st, the rookie Changchun origin warehouse was put into use, and the rookie was located in the localities in the original place. Only 1-2 days later, the newly produced agricultural products could be sent to the whole country. At the same time, sorting equipment such as "small yellow people" also greatly improved the sorting efficiency.

After all, there is a similar consideration for the enterprises. According to the data, why the transformation of intellectual warehousing is needed, the 50% answer is because of the lower transport cost, 41% for the sake of faster delivery time, and 33% for the inventory strategy change, 22% for the lack of people, and 21% for multi channel pressure. It can be seen that most of the enterprises' transformation depends on the factors of the industrial end and the consumer side. In fact, apart from that, the tilt of national policies is also a major reason. The Ministry of science and technology released the key national special research and development plan "intelligent robot" and so on last year to further support the development of robot enterprises, which has further made intelligent storage a new industry outlet.

At present, the development of logistics robots in China is on the rise due to the release of the industry itself and the release of policy dividends. According to preliminary understanding, by 2021, global shipments and logistics robot shipments will surge from 40 thousand units in 2016 to 620 thousand units, and the market revenue of the industry will also grow from US $1 billion 900 million in 2016 to US $22 billion 400 million.

Jingdong, Suning, vip.com and other electronic business platform and rookie logistics backbone network platform are vigorously layouts in intelligent warehousing, in order to "pre emptive" goods, and ultimately better meet the timeliness needs.

Jingdong: diversified warehousing layout

In December 2017, Jingdong logistics Fujian's first "cloud warehouse" project was completed, which also marked Jingdong logistics in the consumer goods warehousing and logistics in the field of subdivision took a solid first step. According to different commodity characteristics, cloud storehouse can be divided into home appliances (replenishment) cloud storage, fresh cloud storage, medical cloud storehouse and so on.

In January 2018, Jingdong's logistics benchmark warehouse has been operated in 7 cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Shenyang and Xi'an, covering the whole category. Benchmarking uses the 7S production management standard of the peers in the production industry as the benchmark. At the same time, in the acceptance check and order production, the automation equipment is put into use to ensure that the merchants enjoy more efficient warehouse service. In October of the same year, Jingdong logistics opened a new mode of warehousing service of "production association warehouse". It is understood that the "production association warehouse" mainly focused on the industrial clusters of three or four cities and below, and reached alliance with merchants with warehouse resources, so as to satisfy the one-stop service of the whole industry chain trustee of warehousing businesses, improve operational efficiency and reduce the operation cost of enterprises.

In March 2019, Jingdong logistics announced that 4 pharmaceutical warehouses and 1 equipment stores located in Beijing, Taizhou, Kunshan and Hefei have been certified by GSP (drug quality management standard), and the total storage area is more than 50 thousand square meters. During the last 618 years, Jingdong logistics launched the largest logistics warehouse in Asia, and the 23 Asian intelligent logistics park was put into operation. At present, the average daily processing capacity of all Asian single warehouse orders is over 100 thousand.

As can be seen from the above, Jingdong began to "on-line" all kinds of warehouses since 2017. Of course, there is no need for Jingdong logistics development plan. The following table is a cooperation project between Jingdong and warehouses in the first half of 2018.

Of course, in addition to complementary cooperation between enterprises and technology, equipment is also a "stepping stone" for enterprises to enter the office. In May 2018, Jingdong set up a logistics real estate fund, that is, through the use of third party funds, to bring more logistics warehousing for Jingdong.

Suning: the community network opens up the last mile.

It is understood that at present, Suning covers four major business forms: Warehousing resources, cold chain, cross-border, and community. The cold chain is closely related to the two major businesses of the community. Suining line stores such as Su Sheng Sheng, Suning Plaza, Suning shop and front warehouse have formed a synergy effect, some stores even "offline sales platform + warehouse" combination.

As early as last February, Suning logistics has completed the cold chain layout in 8 cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Wuhan, Chengdu, Shenyang and Xi'an. Sunning logistics's newly opened eight cold chain stores use B2B shop Distribution and B2C customer packaging delivery mode to meet the cold chain logistics demand of Suning fresh, Suning small store and Suzhou Sheng supermarket. Today, Suning cold chain has completed the cold chain layout of 46 cities, covering an area of more than 200 thousand square meters, covering 188 cities, reaching home to the user distribution age, reaching 100% of the day and the next day.

During the 618 period last year, Suning logistics launched the ice cream index service, taking ice melting time as a reference system to evaluate the timeliness of instant distribution business. This year 618, Suning called out the slogan of "3 kilometers and 1 hours". Behind the harsh standards, the bottom line came from Suning's 6000 super stores, and the layout of the 2000 leading warehouses. It is estimated that by the end of this year, Suning logistics will have 1100 pre positions in the whole country. The widely distributed front-end warehouse covers over 40 thousand communities in 100 cities, and has greatly reduced the "last mile" to consumers.

2018 Suning logistics 818 press conference, Yao Kai, vice president of Suning logistics, released the product -- the 1000+ project, which completed the layout of the professional logistics center in 2020, and the storage area increased by 10 million square meters. We will speed up the construction of the two storehouse network of backbone storage network and community warehouse network, and build a basic network to serve multi field partners through the coordination of science and technology and socialization. The following table is a cooperative project between Suning logistics and enterprises.

Vip.com: Transformation Road of self built storage

Vip.com was founded in 2008, the main sale mode is to promote sales of branded goods with large discount. Its self built logistics brand, pin Chun express, is a large integrated logistics service provider integrating express, trunk transportation, air cargo, warehousing and integration, COD (cash on delivery) and other businesses, with a registered capital of 1 billion yuan.

As early as 2016, vip.com reached a strategic cooperation intention with the government and Yichang Sanxia Airport of Yichang, Hubei, to set up a regional cargo distribution center and an air cargo hub. Yichang Sanxia Airport will be built into a "double hub" which integrates express delivery hub and cargo hub, and will become the hub of vip.com's domestic air express.

In 2017, vip.com announced the separation of Internet financial business and restructuring logistics business, which means that vip.com will create a strategic matrix consisting of three major plates, namely, electricity supplier, finance and logistics. Logistics has become an important part of vip.com, adding two leading warehouses in Guiyang and Kunming, increasing the number of pre positions to 7. In the same year, we have set up five warehouses in Southern China, North China, Southwest China, central China and East China, with a total area exceeding 2 million square meters.

At present, the use of warehouses is 3 million square meters, with 15 leading warehouses at home and abroad, 9 self operated overseas warehouses and 4 overseas third party operation warehouses. At present, 6 intelligent storage centers have been set up in Guangdong, Tianjin, Sichuan, Hubei, Jiangsu and Liaoning. The following table is the content of vip.com intelligent warehousing cooperation.

Rookie: warehouse intelligent equipment helps rookie go to sea

Unlike the above electricity supplier platform, rookie has also been paying attention to intelligent transformation of warehousing as intelligent logistics backbone network. In 2014, rookie on-line WMS warehouse management system, from then on the road of warehousing automation.

In October 2018, rookie announced that IoT's future park will officially serve Tmall double 11. Nearly 700 robots in the future park are also officially launched and become the largest robot intelligent warehouse in China. In the same year, Shentong also launched the automatic sorting equipment of "little yellow people" in Zhejiang, Shandong and Henan. Yuantong invested nearly 40 sets of automatic sorting equipment to transform the transshipment center, and the sorting efficiency was greatly improved.

In January 2019, in order to build an unmanned warehouse, rookie has developed a flexible automation technology. In the robot distribution center, the whole package can be controlled, intelligently identified and quickly allocated throughout the distribution center. It is understood that the robot allocation system can handle more than 90% super class packages, 1.6 times higher than the traditional manpower allocation efficiency.

It is worth mentioning that the rookie intelligent storage in overseas layout is also quite brilliant. In November 2017, the intelligent warehouse robot first appeared in Southeast Asia. This activity belongs to the eWTP super hub project, which aims to boost the "global 72 hours" with technology. In February 2019 and March, rookies collaborate with Russian post and Spanish post in areas including warehousing to promote cross-border logistics development.

China's warehousing boom has been strong since 2018. According to the statistics of China Federation of logistics and purchasing, the comprehensive index and the new order index of China's warehousing industry have remained high since 2018. Today, although the warehousing industry is facing the problems of different standards of warehousing informatization, high equipment prices, and shortage of warehousing talents, it is also facing the following problems.

The popularity of 5G business plus the release of demand for outsourcing in manufacturing, business and circulation industry and the strengthening of strategic position in warehousing industry are increasing the overall market of China's warehousing industry.

As Zhang Yong, chief executive of Alibaba group and rookie chairman, said, "today we have realized the digitalization of packages, and all logistics elements such as warehouses will also be digitalized gradually. This is a necessary condition for the industry to finally become" intellectualized "in the future. This shows that the intelligent transformation of warehouses is imperative.