Intelligent sorting can reduce the cost of single ticket sorting and improve the ceiling of sorting capacity. At the same time, the improvement of electronic surface single usage, the successful fundraising of express enterprises, and the rapid decline in the price of intelligent sorting equipment jointly provide external conditions for the popularization of intelligent sorting.

Logistics automation is inseparable from equipment upgrading

E-commerce business has further promoted the development of the logistics sorting industry

The development driving factors of intelligent sorting, the popularity of express intelligent sorting depends on multiple internal and external factors, internal demand superimposed external conditions, making intelligent sorting in the past two years ushered in development opportunities. On the one hand, the development of e-commerce has brought about a burst of express business. On the other hand, the improvement of the use rate of electronic sheet and the successful fundraising of express enterprises have jointly provided external conditions for the popularization of intelligent sorting. Comprehensive internal demand and external conditions, the number of intelligent sorting equipment installed in the field of express delivery in the past two years has exploded rapidly.

China's e-commerce industry saw rapid growth in 2020, according to industry-related reports. By December 2020, China's online shopping users had reached 782 million, an increase of 72.15 million compared with previous years. In 2020, China's online retail sales reached 11.76 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.9 percent over the previous year. The continuous penetration of e-commerce promotes the rapid development of the express industry. E-commerce is the engine for the development of Express delivery in China, and it also gives birth to the demand for automated operations.

According to data analysis, driven by online shopping and with the emergence of low-customer unit price e-commerce platforms represented by Pinduoduo, China's express delivery business volume reached 63.52 billion in 2019, among which e-commerce items accounted for more than 80%, and most of them were standard small items. Therefore, from the perspective of external factors, the huge business volume of e-commerce, consumers' requirements for logistics efficiency and merchants' high sensitivity to logistics costs have stimulated the demand for cost reduction and efficiency improvement in the express industry, so that intelligent sorting comes into view.

According to the Report of The Boston Consulting Group, as the competition between logistics operation and production enterprises intensifies and labor costs rise, logistics automation equipment is conducive to logistics operation and production enterprises to reduce costs and improve competitiveness, which promotes its accelerated development. In addition, with the gradual follow-up of domestic manufacturers' technology, low-cost domestic equipment is slowly becoming the mainstream of logistics enterprises. The price of a single set of foreign-funded intelligent sorting equipment is as high as 20-30 million yuan, which is difficult for most private express enterprises to easily afford. Beginning in 2010, represented by anhui a 1 information technology co., LTD. Master the technology and the upstream supply chain of Chinese private enterprises, to break the blockade to enter the market, the cost advantage and a more aggressive pricing push prices fell rapidly, quickly won the market competitive power, it also become intelligent sorting in express delivery industry one of the large-scale popularization of external conditions.

At the same time, domestic enterprises in the field of intelligent logistics sorting, such as Etown, with a keen sense of market conditions and the intelligent logistics industry, enter the early market layout when the demand for automatic sorting of express enterprises begins to sprout, and constantly cultivate long-term and stable customer relations and reputation; At the same time, deep cultivation of intelligent sorting professional technology, and constantly improve the sorting efficiency, error rate, recognition rate, stability and batch implementation ability of cross band and other sorting equipment; "Different from traditional manual sorting, the barcode recognition rate of intelligent cross belt and other sorting equipment is more than 99%, and the sorting accuracy is as high as 99.99%. Compared with manual sorting, it can effectively save more than 30% of manpower, which is very conducive to improving the operation efficiency of logistics enterprises, and is the development trend of the industry." Related professionals said.

Finally, in the view of the relevant industry, with the continuous development and application of new infrastructure and the Internet of things, transportation sorting technology will continue to develop in the direction of more intelligent and flexible, and can effectively solve the pain points in the past development of logistics, medicine, shoes and clothing and other industries. At the same time, the business model of "intelligent sorting" has been recognized by the market and affirmed by customers, and the future development and industrial scale will be considerable.