Can Electricity Providers Build Logistics Themselves?

Recently, there have been some circulated stories on the Internet.

Right? Jingdong discussion.

The reason is Ma Yun's passage: "Jingdong will become a tragedy in the future..."

Do you know how many people are in Jingdong now? 50 thousand people! Alibaba is growing up slowly, now only 23000 people.

The takeover adds up to 25000.

Do you know why I don't do express delivery? Now Jingdong has 50 thousand people, nearly thirty thousand or forty thousand warehouses, and 2 million parcels a day.

I now have an average of 27 million parcels per day. What is the concept? After ten years in China, there will be 300 million packages per day. You have to hire 1 million people, so these 1 million people are killing you. "

Editor's note: Liu Qiangdong said in January 17th that Jingdong had more than 70 thousand employees in January 2015.

Another electricity supplier company Amazon has also been entangled in the human resources cost of logistics and distribution.

A netizen said, "chat with Amazon's delivery uncle, saying that the free shipping standard rose to 99 yuan, and the order avalanche was reduced.

The basic salary of the distribution station is very low, and the courier relies on the Commission to earn income.

Now the freight free standard has doubled, and the delivery Commission has not been raised correspondingly.

I can't do it anymore.

Uncle said, Amazon distribution station from the basket to the battery car have to distribute their own money to buy, POS machine obsolete, the only advantage is to give social security.

Whether it is Ma Yun's inadvertent words or uncle Tucao Tucao, reflects a problem - the expansion of the electricity supplier, the courier to survive, the cost of self built logistics has become the bottleneck of the development of the scale of the electricity supplier.

In the era of low labor costs, coupled with the limited number of waybills, the demographic dividend has solved the key issue of distribution for the expansion of e-commerce.

With the disappearance of demographic dividend and the repeated increase of labor costs, the self built logistics mode will expose some new problems, which need new models or more advanced technologies to solve them.

In the current logistics system with express personnel as the core, Ma Yun's algorithm can be said to be unassailable.

But science and technology are changing with each passing day. Judging by the standards of today, the future is a bit of a thing.

In fact, Amazon has already begun developing unmanned delivery machines in the United States.

This logistics UAV uses GPS navigation. As long as the weight of the package is within 5 pounds (which covers 86% of Amazon's order) and the destination is no more than 10 km away from Amazon's logistics center, the items will be sent to the user's hands within half an hour after the order is placed.

In addition, as early as the end of 2013, EMS, UPS, DHL, FedEx and other well-known international express companies also expressed the need to join the UAV distribution package.

In August 2014, Google acquired the Titan Aerospace of the UAV, and said that the UAV project, which has been researched and developed for two years, has been tested in Queensland, Australia. The Google UAV will send the dog food and vaccine to the farm and help the Pizza Company to take the takeaway.

Besides, Jingdong, Jingdong has been successfully launched in 2014 after several years of rapid expansion.

But the huge cost of logistics has always been a burden that can hardly be described. When the family elder brother knows that he is expensive, he does not seem to need Ma Yun's advice.

So, in order to adapt to the expansion of the electricity supplier in the future, can we only give up the path of self built logistics?

UAVs may be another option.

I learned from UAV manufacturing enterprises that UAV technology has developed rapidly in recent years, and its application in logistics has matured.

For example, remote automatic control technology enables logistics enterprises to conduct remote scheduling of UAVs in the area on the large screen of the control center, allowing unmanned aircraft to deliver door-to-door as couriers.

Prior to Amazon revealed that its development of UAV's Prime Air project, UAV's security and related regulatory policy is considered to be the two major obstacles to UAV logistics technology landing.

Unlike many people's imagination, the safety of UAVs is also improving.

An intelligent control officer of an unmanned aircraft company in China said, "UAV can use dual redundancy safety flight controller, and two sets of control systems work simultaneously.

A set of system problems will automatically switch to another system to protect the safety of logistics UAVs, which is similar to that of a single fighter in a fighter plane.

In addition, UAVs are equipped with active safety umbrellas.

When the UAV accidentally falls, the umbrella opens automatically, minimizing the loss of UAVs and articles and possible damage to the third party.

The person in charge also said that through the key technology of anti inducement, the UAV can also avoid the interference of the UAV in flight to the greatest extent by hacker attacks and radio interference.

Of course, at present, policy regulation is still a problem, but who can decide whether the policy in this area will not be orderly open in the next few years?

In November 2014, the national low altitude airspace management reform conference confirmed that the airspace under the height of 1000 meters would be classified and managed in an orderly way. More than 10 cities in Guangzhou, Chongqing and Changchun will carry out the pilot reform of airspace management under the height of 1000 meters or less.

Just imagine, if Jingdong will also use UAVs to do logistics in the future, will those "head accounts" need to be entangled?

Take Microsoft and apple, which are well known, for example. If the two companies represent the two modes of opening and closing, then is the Jingdong self built logistics mode similar to that of Apple's self built ecosystem?

If the UAV logistics becomes a reality, the change may be the whole logistics format. This is not only a question of "Jingdong can not do". As for how Jingdong integrates the current warehousing layout with UAV logistics, it will be another problem to be solved after Jingdong's "adding wings".