In 2019, "Double 11", an Internet festival, entered the "seven-year itch", and the e-commerce industry continued to fight again. After last year's "overseas online shopping clan", this year, brick-and-mortar retailers organized a new army of "cross-border shopping" to prepare for "Double 11". Traditional e-commerce platforms pay more attention to improving service quality besides promotion; In the warehousing and logistics industry, intelligent warehousing systems and sorting robots are emerging.
Facing the increasingly powerful "buy, buy, buy" of consumers, local warehousing and logistics, online platforms, entity supermarkets are using their own brand new attitude, to meet this crazy online shopping "system war".
The average daily handling capacity of some companies has reached 50 tons
During this year's Singles' Day, an e-commerce operation center will adopt an intelligent picking system, increasing efficiency by about 30%. The picking time for each order has been reduced from almost half an hour to three minutes.
Logistics and warehousing: intelligent system improves efficiency by 30% "Recently I have been on night shift, almost all of me have been busy all night, and there are a lot of goods in the mail express category." Baiyun logistics receivers Zhang said, behind him, all kinds of express package shelves, has been full. However, in the process of receiving, transporting and loading, the sorting staff can still try to be as light as possible, large and small, and heavy and light.
Guangzhou Baiyun International Logistics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Baiyun Logistics) related person in charge revealed that the "Double 11" is not coming, mail, express goods have begun to increase, the daily average handling capacity reached 50 tons, more than 1 times of the usual.
At present, the new warehouse transformation of Baiyun Logistics International Freight Terminal has been completed, and the receiving channels have been increased from 9 to 15. In "Double 11", a 24-hour non-stop receiving window has also been added. On November 2nd, the new warehouse was put into use before the "Double 11". The new warehouse covers an area of 9,600 square meters, and the open space outside the warehouse is nearly 10,000 square meters, which greatly alleviates the storage pressure during the peak freight season.
In order to cope with the arrival of the peak ahead of time, Baiyun Logistics and the freight department of China Southern Airlines, express company communication transportation plan, timely release of the new winter and spring flight schedule, remind customers to reasonably arrange the shipping space, do a good job of flight plan. The company also gives priority to guarantee the "Double 11" express cargo transport flights, and does a good job in dealing with abnormal flights to improve the timeliness of goods.
In the warehouse of Guangdong Xinyi Technology Logistics Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Xinyi Logistics"), the largest third-party e-commerce warehousing service provider in China, engineers are rushing to complete the installation and single machine debugging of the compound packaging area and A area before the "Double 11".
In Guangzhou, Xinyi Logistics in Huangpu District, Zengcheng District has a warehouse center. But in order to adapt to the ever-accelerating development of online shopping and warehousing demand, this year, Xinyi Logistics moved its South China operation center, which was originally located in Dongting Logistics Park, to Cainiao Network Zengcheng Logistics Park, and built an automated logistics center, which fully expanded its warehousing area by three times
Approaching "Double 11", Zhang Tete,CEO of Xinyi Logistics, also remained cautious of excitement. In his opinion, supermarket warehouse management is a great test of the overall warehouse management level, "in the warehouse base of more than ten thousand kinds of goods, tens of thousands of orders every day, the goods from the shelves, picking, replenishing, inventory to warehouse transfer, every step of the operation is accurately calculated.
Since the first day of Xinyi Logistics' connection with Tmall supermarket, its order volume has increased by more than 750 times. It is delivered by Xinyi's five warehouses in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Tianjin, Suzhou and Chengdu respectively, and the South China warehouse is an important part of them.
During this year's Singles' Day, the E-business operation center located in Xinyi Logistics South China Operation Center will adopt the intelligent picking system, which will increase the efficiency by about 30%. The picking time for each order has been reduced from almost half an hour to three minutes.
During this 3 minutes, Xinyi's WMS warehouse management system will analyze and process the orders pushed by Tmall supermarket at the system level, and combine the similar orders within a period of time. Then, the system will calculate the optimal picking path, the order collection, as far as possible in the processing of a batch of orders, the shortest picking path. Depending on the size of the item, a single pick order can consist of up to 15 orders, enough to fill a pick truck.
During "Double 11", a number of self-developed intelligent robots will be deployed in Tianjin warehouse, and the accuracy of picking can reach 99.99%. In addition, the voice picking system is enabled, the WMS cloud child mother warehouse system and the intelligent storage center are opened for synchronous operation, so as to improve the picking efficiency and accuracy, and solve the massive orders during the "Double 11" period. We are more confident." Zhang Tete said.