China's express delivery industry received more than 6.59 billion express items, with a maximum daily handling capacity of more than 400 million items. This year's "618" Shopping Festival has once again set off a wave of consumer upsurge. Many consumers were pleasantly surprised to find that the phenomenon of express delivery "bursting warehouse" caused by the previous surge in order volume basically disappeared, usually "just placed an order last night, arrived this morning"!

The amount of work handled by express delivery can be called "massive". How can goods be delivered quickly? Behind this, the wisdom of logistics is indispensable.

Multiple links are gradually realizing intelligence

Smart logistics not only improves efficiency, but also significantly reduces costs and enhances security

The so-called intelligent logistics refers to the use of a series of intelligent technologies to enable the logistics system to imitate human intelligence, have the ability of thinking, perception, learning, reasoning and judgment, and can solve some problems in the logistics by themselves.

In recent years, with the development of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, Internet of Things and other technologies, the logistics industry is gradually realizing intelligence in many links.

In the sorting process of express delivery, the only way in the past was to pick up the parcel one by one, scan the QR code, and then place the parcel in the area representing the corresponding delivery location according to the information of the surface list on the parcel. This is not only inefficient, but also error-prone. Nowadays, multi-type technical equipment with intelligent sorting equipment as the core is widely used, which greatly improves the efficiency of express sorting and solves the problem of "bursting warehouse" that has plagued the industry for many years.

According to Li, the high-speed image recognition technology of the intelligent sorting system can recognize hundreds of bar codes per second. Combined with a series of advanced intelligent technologies such as sensing, processing and control, the package can be delivered to the designated area, thus achieving accurate sorting of items.

He told reporters that his research team's newly developed intelligent logistics transportation and sorting system can handle more than 100,000 packages per hour on average, saving more than 70 percent of manpower for a single system.

The intelligent development of logistics industry can not only improve consumers' online shopping experience, but also provide various conveniences for production and life.

At the Bull Intelligent Ware, located in the coastal economic development zone of Cixi, Zhejiang province, it takes four people and one shift to pick 12,000 boxes, while the traditional method requires 20 people to complete the same amount of work.
Bull wisdom logistics related responsible person said: "Originally, daily operation delivery capacity is only 3000-4000 boxes, once more than will be postponed to the next day, the error rate is 20-30 times a month; After the intelligent logistics system is put into operation, the maximum number of cases is 60,000 per day, and the error rate is only 1-2 times per year."

In the civil aviation airport, the intelligent baggage sorting machine can autonomously complete the unmanned series of links from baggage checking, transportation, sorting to baggage claim, greatly improving the efficiency of the airport.
Smart logistics not only improves efficiency, but also significantly reduces costs and enhances security. For example, the application of autonomous driving technology in the field of logistics can help companies increase profitability in terms of efficiency, cost and safety.
"In the past few years, the labor cost of logistics has increased two or three times," said Wu Gansha, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Uisei Technology. Another point is security. In addition to traffic accidents, there are many aspects such as employee personal safety. Our self-developed autonomous driving technology can solve all these problems."

Smart logistics is not only applied to all links such as warehousing, transportation and distribution of hardware, but also to scenarios at the software level such as logistics supply chain planning, intelligent decision-making and logistics cloud.
Wenming, the innovation director of JD Logistics Intelligent Park, introduced that JD Logistics has independently developed warehousing, transportation and order management systems to support the comprehensive digitalization of customer supply chains. Through proprietary algorithms, it makes better decisions for sales forecasting, commodity distribution planning and supply chain network optimization.

Deeper application of n-generation information technology

Intelligent logistics has brought unprecedented changes to the logistics industry and people's production and life

The latest generation of intelligent control system of JD Asia No.1 Wuhan Logistics Park is the intelligent brain of this huge logistics center. It can calculate the 68 billion possible paths of more than 300 robots and make the best choice within 0.2 seconds. Sorting intelligent handling robot system "little red" in the intelligent brain scheduling, no matter how busy, will not crash, fight; If you get stuck in a traffic jam, it will automatically replan its route. If it runs out of power, it will automatically return to the charging station to recharge.

This kind of scene appears more and more in domestic various kinds of logistics industry. With the support of sensors and identification, big data, artificial intelligence, geographic information system and other advanced technologies, intelligent logistics has brought unprecedented changes to the logistics industry and people's production and life.
The application of smart logistics to strategic emerging technologies, especially the new generation of information technology, has exceeded many people's imagination in breadth and depth.

In traditional warehousing, goods need to be scanned, sorted and stored manually, and then manually entered into the system. In a smart warehouse, sensors and recognition technology make everything simple and efficient.
By tagging assets such as goods, pallets and operating hardware with RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, and transmitting information about the content and location of the order, staff can easily obtain the location of each item, monitor the delivery of goods in and out of storage in real time, and take inventory in a timely manner.
Similarly, in the express delivery industry, the fine-grained sorting code automatic generation engine technology based on deep neural network realizes the self-learning and self-analysis of the goods address, and can automatically generate sorting and delivery codes, which directly replaces the traditional postal codes and realizes the rapid sorting and delivery of massive parcels.

In recent years, big data, Internet of Things, cloud computing, robotics, blockchain and other new technologies drive logistics, which continues to change rapidly in the direction of modularization, automation and informatization.
According to the civilization, the results of these new technologies driving the change of logistics are mainly reflected in three aspects: one is induction, digitizing the whole scene of logistics; The second is interconnection, so that all elements in the whole supply chain are interconnected; The third is intelligence. Supply chain related decisions will be more autonomous and intelligent.
Experts say that automation and intelligent technology make logistics operations more efficient and low-cost, which is the main factor for the larger application of intelligent logistics. In addition, how to fully integrate the emerging technologies with the logistics scene to make logistics the best application scene of cutting-edge technologies is also the direction of China's logistics industry to make continuous efforts.

With the continuous emergence of new technologies, new models and new forms of business, smart logistics will gradually become the main driving force and path to promote the development of the industry
Although China's smart logistics started late, it has developed rapidly. In recent years, the market size of smart logistics in China has shown a step-by-step growth, exceeding 500 billion yuan in 2020. At the same time, relying on artificial intelligence, big data and other new generation of information technology, logistics technology and equipment in China has a great possibility of surpassing the late development.
Especially in the aspects of intelligent sorting, intelligent handling robots, automated three-dimensional warehouse and so on, the gap between China's logistics equipment technology and foreign countries is narrowing, and some even achieve surpassing
Thanks to supply chain advantages and large-scale investment in domestic logistics infrastructure, China's smart logistics technology and equipment have obvious competitive advantages in cost control and research and development efficiency, but the originality of technology needs to be further strengthened and improved, experts said.
The development of smart logistics can help the whole society improve logistics efficiency and save logistics costs. Smart logistics is expected to save more than one trillion yuan of logistics costs every year by 2025, according to a data report released by the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing.
As far as integration technology is concerned, China's smart logistics technology and equipment have initially acquired the ability to serve the global logistics infrastructure. In the future, China will make significant progress in assisted driving, unmanned handling, automated intensive storage, whole-process unmanned transportation and sorting, assisted automated loading and unloading and other technologies."
"With the continuous emergence of new technologies, new models and new forms of business, and the deep integration of the logistics industry and the Internet, smart logistics will gradually become the main driving force and path for the development of the logistics industry, and will also inject strong impetus into the optimization and upgrading of the economic structure and the improvement of quality and efficiency." The civilization said.