In the era of mobile Internet, logistics industry, as an important link between digital economy and real economy, has become an important part of the national economy. At the same time, in 2020, due to the uncertainty of the whole environment, the logistics industry is about to face a more intense competitive environment, the last mile of the vast countryside, and people's higher requirements for logistics efficiency and service in the digital intelligent world. The deep digital reform of logistics industry is the general trend.
Since 20 13, although the proportion of total social logistics expenses to GDP in China has been declining for many years, the logistics industry has also made some achievements in reducing costs and increasing efficiency, but overall, the logistics industry is still in the initial stage of informationization. With the rapid development of cloud, artificial intelligence and 5G technology, traditional logistics has seen a bright prospect of using new technologies to promote the logistics industry to achieve safety, efficiency and national coverage.
Minstar, focusing on the logistics express management software industry for more than 20 years, is a leading enterprise in the logistics express management software industry and is committed to the innovation and upgrading of the logistics express management system information industry. Munstar's business covers the whole world, including well-known "four links and one access" in China, as well as head logistics enterprises in the industry, such as China Railway Express, COSCO Group and Toyota.
China's vast world includes not only first-tier cities such as Shenzhen and Hangzhou in the north, but also nearly 700,000 administrative villages. Only by extending the tentacles of logistics to the "last mile" of the vast rural areas can we truly realize the digitalization and intelligence of logistics.
In recent years, the state has vigorously promoted policies such as rural e-commerce and express delivery to the countryside, which has brought vigorous business opportunities to logistics enterprises. However, express delivery to the countryside is also facing a huge challenge of informationization-every village has formed an information island. After the express delivery of SF Express, "Four Links and One Reach" and other companies arrived in a county-level city, it could not be delivered directly to the countryside. Instead, the parcels are concentrated in a warehouse, and the local county-level express company helps deliver the parcels.
"Mainstream express delivery companies will not open data interfaces to county-level express delivery companies. Many county-level express delivery companies have entered a very primitive pure manual stage, and each single business needs manual operation to verify the whole process of entry, which is not only inefficient, but also prone to errors. " Jian Huang, Deputy General Manager of Shenzhen Minstar Information Technology Co., Ltd. Customer Service Center, shared.
The work pressure of county-level logistics companies can be imagined. With the explosive growth of logistics volume, if the bills generated by logistics cannot be handled in time, how much loss will the backlog of goods cause? However, if advanced IT technology is adopted to realize the automatic identification and entry of express orders and receipts, it will not only greatly improve work efficiency, but also improve user satisfaction.
From 20 15, Minster and Huawei Cloud reached a cooperation on the ecological strategy of smart logistics. The two sides combine big data, AI, loT and cloud technologies to build a distributed system, build a competitive software and hardware integration solution, open up the supply chain information flow, reduce the cost of each link, and hope to bring new changes to the logistics industry. Based on a deep understanding of the logistics industry, Minstar hopes to introduce a solution that can intelligently identify diversified orders and quickly input express orders and receipts to help logistics enterprises.
Among them, Huawei Cloud's powerful technical underlying capabilities have been highlighted. OCR intelligent identification technology based on Huawei Cloud has solved the problem of diversified express orders, and combined with Minster's software system, it has helped many small express companies in the county to identify various express orders. Let county-level companies not only undertake general express orders such as SF Express, Sitong Yida, but also undertake express orders from hundreds of small and medium-sized logistics enterprises.
Through Huawei cloud OCR, ID card, electronic face sheet, network screenshot, paper face sheet, etc. In the logistics industry, it can automatically identify and input a large number of express waybill information in real time, realize real-name identity authentication, fill in forms quickly and improve management efficiency.
Then through the summary and analysis of distribution information, it is introduced into the distribution path optimization algorithm model to realize the optimal management of courier distribution work. Through intelligent outbound call, the distribution information can be notified to users in time, and a lot of manual call work can be saved.
In addition to AI applications such as face-to-face and call, Minstar and Huawei Cloud are also identifying and optimizing transportation routes through AI. "The path is more complicated than the panel, and there are various transportation roads. How can it be the best? At this time, we need to rely on the ability of Huawei Cloud to best identify the path, and it must be absolutely real-time. Time and cost must be considered so that the transportation route can save time and reduce costs. " Jian Huang talked about the future direction of cooperation.
Huawei Cloud is committed to providing a "black land" of the intelligent world, which is quite recognized by Jian Huang. "At that time, we made a choice among three cloud vendors, Huawei Cloud, a foreign vendor and a domestic vendor. Huawei Cloud has a promise that touches us very much, that is, it will not touch our data. This piece is relatively rare compared with other manufacturers. " Jian Huang shared.
From the business point of view, Minstar has spread all over the world, and how to handle global business based on Shenzhen headquarters has become the most important demand of IT platform. In the early days, Minstar deployed the software to the computer rooms of different express delivery companies, which required professionals to go to the site for maintenance, and at the same time, it also solved the problems of system downtime and software virus. After cooperating with Huawei Cloud, Minstar can focus on its core business and solve worries based on its 24-hour online service.
Under the wave of "new infrastructure" in China, rural logistics e-commerce is an important part of construction. Getting through the "last mile" will enable industrial products to be quickly transported to rural areas and high-quality agricultural products to be transported to cities. After the speed of goods circulation is accelerated, the income of farmers will be greatly improved, thus promoting the coordinated development of rural cities.
In addition, Huawei has many years of global transportation management experience, and Munster has more than 20 years of logistics industry accumulation. The two sides look forward to in-depth exchanges and cooperation in this field, bringing more new changes to the industry.
Minstar has made great efforts in Huawei's cloud "black land" to make every kilometer smarter.