Rebirth in a Perfect Era

Although William came to China without any official Beijing, the public's attention was not inferior to the state visits of foreign leaders.

The next day, Li Mu took William to visit Taobao.com, as well as Taobao Logistics' storage center and logistics distribution center in Yanjing.

Although William was shocked, it was Taobao's warehouse center and logistics distribution center.

Brother Liu devoted all his energies to the optimization and improvement of the logistics system during this time. Now, the fleet size of Taobao Logistics, the resources of the warehouse belly and the automatic sorting system all over the country are in a period of rapid growth.

Coupled with the rapid development of Taobao's business, there are more and more domestic online shopping users, so the entire Taobao logistics has a huge order volume, of which one-third is self-operated by Taobao or shipped using Taobao warehouse, the remaining three Two-thirds are shipped by C2C sellers.

The huge order support gave strong support to the development of the entire Taobao logistics, so Brother Liu's warehousing center was continuously expanded, and the distribution center was also continuously expanded. Some three stages were added to Germany a total of 15 automatic sorting a while ago. The system's orders will be placed in the cities of Guangdong, Zhejiang and Shanghai in the future.

When William arrived at the Yanjing Distribution Center Sorting Center, he was completely stunned by the modern logistics scene.

A large number of packages are unpacked, sorted and repacked here. Then, with the logistics management system developed by Makino for Taobao Logistics, the status of each included is recorded and updated in real time.

William watched countless packages quickly shuttle on the belt conveyor, and said to Li Mu in amazement: "I feel like I have been here for more than ten years, and I always feel that such an advanced and efficient logistics method is not a product of this era at all. ... "

Li Mu laughed: "Most of the equipment you see are made in Germany. This equipment was already available in Germany before 2000. In fact, it is not a great thing. The reason is that it has not been promoted very quickly worldwide. The main reason is that in most countries, the current demand for small-capacity logistics capacity is not so great, and the requirements for efficiency are not so high. The reason why we want to use such equipment and to develop automation to the extreme is the most critical The reason is that we have too much demand for small-capacity logistics capacity and high efficiency requirements, which is larger than any country in the world. "

Li Mu's remarks are not a word of mouth. Taobao Logistics now carries the daily online shopping and transportation of tens of millions of online shopping users of China. Fifty-six years, this means that the way to solve demand must be five or six years in advance.

Judging from the current global e-commerce retail market, no country can match the current Taobao. In addition to Huaxia, the largest online retail market is the United States, but the order volume is not as good as a quarter of Huaxia.

Moreover, the US e-commerce has a very strange point, that is, no matter the platform, seller, or buyer, the requirements for logistics efficiency are very religious.

Even after more than ten years, the logistics efficiency of Huaxia e-commerce is still far ahead of the world. Logistics companies like Shunfeng can already achieve 24-hour delivery between most cities in the country. If this efficiency is placed in the United States, it is fundamentally It is unimaginable that Europeans are even more incomprehensible.

Sure enough, William didn't understand Li Mu's explanation a bit, and asked: "Mr. Li, is the efficiency of such a small piece of logistics so important? Huaxia is so big. I think it takes two days to deliver and four days to deliver, but there is actually nothing. It ’s a big difference, but in order to achieve two-day delivery, you need to invest a lot of money and human and material resources, which will cause a great waste of resources? "

Li Mu laughed: "Hua Xia is a country that is developing rapidly. Do you know what the fastest developing countries are most afraid of waste?"

William asked tentatively: "Resources? Money? Labor?"

"None." Li Mu shook his head and smiled. "It's time."

After all, Li Mu said, "You see, Japan, Germany, and France all have their own high-speed railway technology. Ordinary trains can reach speeds of about 100 kilometers per hour, but high-speed railways can reach more than 200 or even 300 kilometers per hour. When the train runs more than 200 kilometers, air resistance will add huge energy consumption. For example, the distance is 500 kilometers. The ordinary railway takes five hours, but the energy consumption is only one-third of the high-speed railway. One, but the high-speed railway only takes one hour and forty minutes, and the energy consumption is three times that of ordinary railways. However, I believe that the latter is obviously more applicable to the future of China, because we have to hurry. "

William nodded, seemingly understandable, but in fact, he could not understand Li Mu's extreme pursuit of efficiency.

The pace of life of Europeans is far less fast than that of Huaxia Yanjing. The pace of many infrastructures or services in Europe is far from the pervert of Li Mu. Li Mu's starting point for creating Taobao logistics is not to say that he is leading the world in scale, but at least It is a global leader in efficiency, and no logistics company in the world can compete with Taobao Logistics.

Li Mu said to William, "William, do you know why the United States created the Internet, but only China that can compete with them on the same stage, while Europe, which has the same economic development, and Japan and South Korea, have failed to make a difference on the Internet stage?"

William shook his head gently: "To be honest Mr. Li, I don't know the Internet very well, so I can't quite understand what you say."

Li Mu laughed: "It doesn't matter, let me tell you. For the past 200 years in modern times, Chinese people have become accustomed to catching up with things because of the backwardness of the country. Western countries spend hundreds of years to pave the way for industry. It only took decades for the revolution and Huaxia. Although the overall process of modernization is still different from the West, it took us 40 to 50 years to catch up with the gap of more than 100 years in the West, and this gap is still narrowing. This is precisely because of our national characteristics of 'chasing.' "

Speaking of this, Li Mu lamented: "You look at our Internet. It only started at the end of the last century, but all the steps are full of flowers. We have a lot of young people who have been to the West to choose to go back to China and start business. Take the example for example. If I do n’t have extreme pursuit of efficiency, then Makino Technology may only have one YY, and it is being beaten by Microsoft ’s MSN. Taobao may also be pinched by Amazon and eBay. So we have to think about change and quickly find a breakthrough and slam. This is why we can enter the international stage of the Internet industry after the United States. "

In the last life, only the country that really followed the United States to seize the tide of the rise of the Internet was Huaxia.

The entire Europe, Japan, and South Korea have missed the huge opportunity for the rise of the Internet perfectly. This is due to their obedience and acceptance of the US Internet market, and also from their own neglect of efficiency.

And the first generation of Internet people in Huaxia is really amazing. From the first day of contact with the Internet, they are like being beaten up, and they are desperate to start a business. In a few years, they have walked in other countries for more than ten years. Even if there is no Li Mu, there will still be a large number of cattle in Huaxia Internet, a large number of new product models, and a large number of large companies listed in the United States and Hong Kong.

Just like the Huaxia high-speed rail, from the completion of the first high-speed rail to the total mileage of high-speed rail surpassing the sum of other countries in the world, it has not been more than ten years since China ’s high-speed rails were shared.

Later, Li Mu took William to visit the storage center next to the distribution center. The huge storage center gave William a strong shock again.

Nowadays, Taobao warehousing can only be informatized and cannot be automated, but even so, the combination of shelves that are more than ten meters high and seven or eight floors still makes William look stunned.

The operating mode adopted by Taobao warehousing at this stage is the storage and retrieval software with modular shelf management.

For example, a single warehouse has a total of 20 shelves from A to T. Each shelf is divided into 8 layers vertically and 20 cells horizontally. Each cell has the same volume and size, and each cell stores products of the same type or brand.

In this way, the goods have clear coordinate information on the shelves. For example, edible oil is in A515, A represents A row of shelves, 5 represents five layers, and 15 represents 15th grid.

The information of A515 is recorded in the warehousing software. When edible oil is stored in the system, the system will instruct the warehousing person to store the product in A515, and when there is an order for the edible oil to be stored in the system, the system The warehouseman will also be instructed to pick up the goods at A515.

If it is fully automated warehousing, goods storage to A515, or picking up from A515, it can be done automatically, but at this stage, the world does not have automatic equipment that can fully meet the needs of Taobao logistics, and the German side is also in the trial production stage. Therefore, at present, semi-automatic method is used for storage in and out of the warehouse ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ The so-called semi-automation is that there is a track in the middle of every two shelves, and the track is equipped with two lifts one after the other. There is a lift at each end of the track, one is responsible for 1-10 grids, and the other is responsible for 11-20 grids. Each lift can lift from one to eight floors.

The lift is manually controlled. When the A515 picks up the goods, the driver of the second lift at the back end directly enters the position of the A515, and the lift will rise to a height of five floors and come to the front of the 15th block. Pick up manually.

But even if full automation has not yet been achieved, this efficiency has been astonishingly high. A large number of elevators ran back and forth on the track, undulated up and down, took out various goods, and then transported them to the conveyor at both ends of the rack, and then carried out other tasks. Staff packing and sorting orders is much more efficient than manual labor.

William stood under the huge lift, watching the operator constantly busy, exclaiming: "The scene in front of me is like watching a science fiction movie, it is incredible ..."

Li Mu laughed: "Trust me, if you come back two years later, the changes here will exceed your imagination!"