Chapter 730 (1/2)
For a vast country, the problem that more than 20 trucks can solve seems to be very small, but if these 20 trucks are really used well, it can play a very big role.
Each truck is given the responsibility to achieve rapid turnover between the six storage bases and the provincial capital cities within the coverage area.
This is a battle of trunk transportation. Taobao's own team is responsible for the 24-hour non-stop trunk transportation. The rest of the branch transportation and terminal distribution are distributed to the postal system of each province. That is to say, although Shenzhen's shipment accounts for half of the total pre-sale volume, all the pressure is left to Shenzhen, which has been divided into all parts of the country by Taobao.
This greatly avoids the congestion of the distribution center, and shares the pressure of transportation capacity to the greatest extent. Li Mu feels that if he puts this out, boss Ma will have nothing to do.
Generally speaking, the choice of storage base is the city with relatively central effect in geographical location, and the land traffic conditions are excellent. For example, Yanjing, Shanghai stock market and Yangcheng are the cities with all kinds of land traffic. Moreover, these 20 trucks do not need to run down to the market counties and towns. They only run the provincial capital cities. The best land traffic conditions are from the first tier cities to the first tier cities and the second tier cities The route between cities, so more than 20 vehicles are almost all high-speed in the whole process, and the turnover efficiency is very high.
In Yangcheng and Shanghai, two distribution centers that cover more than half of online shopping consumers, a large number of part-time temporarily recruited personnel, under the leadership of a professional team, are constantly packing, delivering and sorting. Within three to five hours, no matter whether the truck is full or not, they should start as soon as possible and send the sorted goods out first. When they rush to transport, a large number of packages are Continue to sort it out, get ready and wait for them to take it away next time.
There are a large number of postal employees and vehicles in the postal distribution center of each province. Generally, the postal service does not have such high efficiency and professionalism. However, due to the very good public relations work of Taobao, the relationship with the postal service has been quite close. In a word, leaders of each Province require employees to give priority to the package transportation of taobao.com as for taobao.com The parcels should be sorted quickly, transported preferentially and dispatched in advance.
For example, in Zhejiang Province where boss Ma is located, the large trucks from Shanghai stock market are loaded with packages from Zhejiang Province and quickly rush to the outskirts of Hangzhou city. After all packages are handed over to the post, employees of Zhejiang post work overtime in the morning to sort the packages sent by Taobao. After sorting them out according to the major cities under the jurisdiction of Zhejiang Province, they load dozens of waiting vans, and then Set out against the stars.
The Shanghai market in Hangzhou is very close. The first batch of goods arrived at Hangzhou post sorting center just before 5 a.m. and the rapid sorting lasted until 7:30. Dozens of box light trucks of post started to go to every prefecture level city under Zhejiang Province. The farthest one was only five or six hours' drive, that is to say, by about 12 noon, the first The parcels of Zhejiang Province will be delivered to the prefecture level cities where the consumers are located. Basically, the parcels will be delivered in the afternoon of the same day and in the morning of the next day in remote areas.
Because of the continuous improvement of social efficiency, people's thinking in 2016 is more efficient than that in 2002, and the requirements for efficiency are far higher than that in 2002. Therefore, Li Mucai will do everything to ensure the rapid and efficient logistics turnover of Taobao. His high requirements and goals even exceed users' psychological expectations.
Faster than the user wants, which is also one of Li Mu's core requirements for its own logistics system.
Li Mu, on taobao.com, and Liu Qidong, as well as Taobao employees working overtime, saw two things together. After the turnover exceeded 800 million yuan, he beckoned Liu Qidong to return to his office. Now, the daily progress of the brand doesn't need to be watched at all times. Everything in its front and back office is running well, destined to create a miracle. He doesn't need to witness how the miracle works Step by step, waiting patiently for the result is the best choice. Besides, Li Mu has more important things to discuss with Liu Qidong.
When the money arrives, the self built logistics system will be launched quickly. At present, nothing is more important than it.
After they sat down in the office, Li Mu said to Liu Qidong, ”senior brother, Wan Ying has already printed out the money. The self built logistics system needs to enter the official stage immediately. Have you planned how to spend the five billion yuan?”
Liu Wudong knew that the money was coming, so he was excited for two days to think about how to carry out the work after the money arrived. Now that the money has finally arrived, Liu Wudong's brain filled plan can finally be realized. He simply combed it out and said: ”the first thing after the money arrived is to expand and upgrade our six major storage bases in an all-round way, and upgrade them into all The second thing is to make use of the middle and high-level logistics companies we have dug, invest in the establishment of logistics outlets all over the country, set up local teams, and take full responsibility for delivery and receipt; the third thing is to establish a logistics transportation network, in addition to the aviation resources to be obtained as soon as possible, the most important thing is that we should Immediately expand the scale of our own fleet. The land transportation conditions of the whole third step are very good. The bulk logistics needs a strong point-to-point transportation capacity by land. In addition, our local point-to-surface transportation also needs a large number of trucks. ”
Li Mu nodded and interrupted Liu Kaidong for a while, saying, ”I'll put in a word first, these three things you said are important and urgent, and the order is naturally the first thing, but I have another important but not urgent thing. Recently, you sent a competent person abroad to investigate the solution of the automatic sorting equipment of the logistics company. Now we have this system It may not be able to play, but this facility is a must in the near future. The automatic sorting equipment with our full information logistics management system can create a real sense of high-speed and efficient logistics. ”Liu immediately said: ”I have known this before. Now the most advanced solution comes from German Berman machinery. The solution cost of a logistics distribution center is about 60 to 80 million yuan. If it is a super large distribution center, the cost will be higher. However, this system is not available in China yet. The old sorting system used by the postal boss is not very efficient High. ”
When Li Mu heard Liu Kaidong's saying, he knew that he had been paying attention to this situation for a long time. He nodded his head with great satisfaction and said: ”then send an individual to Germany Berman to investigate. We need to know the operation mode and efficiency of the whole system, as well as its unit cost. If we can sort 50000 parcels every day, how much is needed for 100000 parcels , make a systematic investigation, and then we can judge when the system is more suitable according to our actual situation. ”
Liu Qiangdong nodded, saying: ”this system is really important, but I think we should not consider getting on the horse in the last two years. The cost is too high. If the sorting center of our logistics distribution centers around the country is set up, the sorting with human resources and conveyor belt can last for at least a few years, and the domestic logistics will not develop to such a high demand in two or three years.”
Li Mu smiled: ”whether this system is needed depends not only on the development of Taobao in the future, the demand of market transportation capacity, but also on our capital operation. If there is sufficient capital, the cost that must be invested sooner or later, or the sooner the better.”