Chapter 1604

Although William didn't have any official Beijing in China, people's attention was no less than that of the state visit led by foreign countries.

The next day, Li Mu and William visited taobao.com and the storage center and distribution center of Taobao logistics in Yanjing.

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

Elder martial brother Liu devoted all his energy to the optimization and improvement of the logistics system in this period. Now, the fleet scale, belly warehouse resources and automatic sorting system of Taobao logistics are in a rapid growth period.

In addition, with the rapid development of Taobao business, there are more and more domestic online shopping users, so the whole Taobao logistics has a huge order volume, one third of which is self-supporting or using Taobao warehouse for shipment, and the remaining two thirds are C2C sellers for shipment.

The huge order support has provided strong support for the development of the whole Taobao logistics. Therefore, senior brother Liu's storage center and distribution center have been continuously expanded. A few days ago, he added three stages of orders for a total of 15 automatic sorting systems to Germany. In the future, the whole system will be put into the cities of Guangdong, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

When William came to the sorting center of Yanjing distribution center, he was completely shocked by the modern logistics scene in front of him.

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

William saw countless parcels quickly shuttling on the belt conveyor, and said to Li Mu in amazement, "I feel like I've arrived for more than ten years at once, and I always feel that such an advanced and efficient logistics mode is not the product of this era at all..."

Li Mu said with a smile: "most of the equipment you see are made in Germany. Germany has had this set of equipment before 2000, but it's not a great thing. The main reason why it hasn't been popularized in the world very quickly is that most countries don't have such a large demand for the transportation capacity of small parts logistics at present, and they don't have that demand for efficiency What's more, the most critical reason why we need such equipment and want to develop automation to the extreme is that we need too much capacity and efficiency for small parts logistics, which is bigger than any other country in the world. "

Li Mu's remark is not a blatant one. Taobao logistics now carries the daily online shopping and transportation of tens of millions of Chinese online shopping users. The order quantity is basically close to that of Taobao in 2008-2010. This data is very terrible. It means that the growth rate of demand has been advanced five or six years, which forces the way to solve the demand to be advanced five or six years.

In terms of the current global e-commerce retail market, no country can match Taobao. Apart from Huaxia, the largest online retail market is the United States, but the order volume is less than a quarter of Huaxia.

Moreover, one of the most wonderful things about e-commerce in the United States is that no matter the platform side, the seller or the buyer, the requirements for logistics efficiency are very Buddhist.

Even more than ten years later, the logistics efficiency of Huaxia e-commerce is still far ahead of the world. Logistics enterprises like Shunfeng have been able to achieve 24-hour delivery between most cities in the country. If this efficiency is put in the United States, it is unimaginable and even more incomprehensible to Europeans.

As expected, William didn't quite understand Li Mu's explanation. He asked: "Mr. Li, is the efficiency of this small logistics so important? China is so big. I don't think there is much difference between two-day delivery and four-day delivery. However, in order to achieve two-day delivery, we need to invest a lot of money, manpower and material resources, which will cause a great waste of resources, right? "

Li Mu said with a smile, "China is a country with high-speed development. Do you know what a country with high-speed development is most afraid of wasting?"

William asked tentatively, "resources? Money? Or labor? "

"Not at all." Li Mu shook his head and said with a smile, "it's time."

After all, Li Mu said: "you see, Japan, Germany and France all have their own high-speed railway technology. The average train speed is about 100 kilometers per hour, but the high-speed railway can reach more than 200 or even 300 kilometers per hour. When the train reaches more than 200 kilometers, the air resistance will increase huge energy consumption. For example, it is also 500 kilometers The distance, the ordinary railway needs five hours, but the energy consumption is only one third of that of the high-speed railway, but the high-speed railway only needs one hour and 40 minutes, and the energy consumption is three times that of the ordinary railway. However, I believe that the latter is obviously more suitable for the future of China, because we need to seize the time. "

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

The pace of life in Europe is far less fast than that in Yanjing, China. Europe's requirements for many infrastructures or services are far less abnormal than that of Li Mu. Li Mu's starting point for building Taobao logistics is not to say that it leads the world in terms of scale, but at least it leads the world in terms of efficiency. There is no logistics company in the world that can compete with Taobao logistics in terms of efficiency 。

Li Mu said to William, "William, do you know why the United States has created the Internet, but only China can compete with them, while Europe, Japan and South Korea, with the same developed economy, have not made any achievements 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 understand what you said."

Li Mu said with a smile: "it doesn't matter. I'll tell you. Since the one hundred or two hundred years of modern times, Chinese people have been used to catching up in doing things because of the backwardness of the country. Western countries have used hundreds of years to pave the way for the industrial revolution. It has only taken decades for China. Although the overall process of modernization construction still lags behind the west, we have used forty or fifty years We have caught up with the gap of the West for more than 100 years, and the gap is still narrowing, which is just because of our national characteristics of "catching up"

Speaking of this, Li Mu sighed: "look at our Internet, it started at the end of last century, but we have a lot of young people who have been to the West and choose to go back to China to start their own business, and draw inferences from others in the business model created in the West. Take myself for example, if I have no extreme pursuit of efficiency, then Muye technology now Maybe there's only one YY, and it's still being hit by Microsoft's MSN. Taobao may also be hit by Amazon and eBay. So we have to think about how to change and quickly find a breakthrough. That's why we can step on the international stage of Internet industry after the United States. "

In the last life, China was the only country that really followed the rise of the Internet in the United States.

The whole Europe, Japan and South Korea have missed the great opportunity of the rise of the Internet perfectly. On the one hand, it is due to their obedience and acceptance of the Internet market in the United States, on the other hand, it is also due to their own neglect of efficiency.

The first generation of Internet people in China are really amazing. They are just like being beaten up on the first day of contacting the Internet. They are desperately starting their own business. In a few years, they have completed the road that other countries have only completed in more than ten years. Even without Li Mu, there will still be a large number of new product models, a large number of cattle people, and a large number of new product models Large companies listed in the United States and Hong Kong.

Just like the high-speed railway in China, from the first high-speed railway to the total mileage of the high-speed railway surpassing the sum of other countries in the world, the total time spent in China is less than ten years, which is the peak of the national "catch-up" skills.

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

At present, Taobao warehouse can only achieve information technology and automation, but even so, William was stunned to pick up a combined shelf that is more than 10 meters high and is easy to rise from seven or eight floors.

At present, Taobao warehouse adopts the operation mode of modular shelf management in combination with in and out software.

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 grids horizontally. Each shelf has the same volume and size, and each shelf stores products of the same type or brand.

In this way, the goods have clear coordinate information in the shelf. For example, when cooking oil is in a515, a stands for row a shelf, 5 stands for five layers, and 15 stands for the 15th grid.

The information of a515 is recorded in the warehouse in / out software. When there is edible oil warehouse in, the system will instruct the warehouse keeper to warehouse the product into a515, and when there is an order to warehouse out edible oil, the system will also instruct the warehouse keeper to pick up the goods in a515.

If it is fully automated warehousing, goods can be automatically finished when entering a515 or picking up goods from a515, but at this stage, there is no automation equipment that can fully meet the needs of Taobao logistics in the world, and the German side is also in the trial production stage, so at present, semi-automatic warehousing is still used.

The so-called semi-automatic means that there is a track in the middle of each two shelves, and the track is equipped with two elevators before and after. For example, there is a track in row a and row B shelves, and there is one elevator at both ends, one is responsible for 1-10 grids, and the other is responsible for 11-20 grids. Each elevator can realize the lifting from the first floor to the eighth floor.

The elevator is controlled manually. When the a515 is picking up the goods, the driver of the second rear elevator directly input the position of a515, and the elevator will rise to the height of the fifth floor and come to the front of the 15th grid. After accurate positioning, the goods will be picked up manually.

However, even if it has not been fully automated, the efficiency is amazing. A large number of elevators run back and forth on the track, ups and downs, take out all kinds of goods, then transport them to the conveyor belt at both ends of the shelf, and then other staff carry out order packaging and sorting. The efficiency is much higher than pure labor.

William stood under the huge elevator and watched the operator keep busy. He exclaimed: "the scene in front of him is like watching science fiction movies. It's incredible..."

Li Mu said with a smile, "believe me, if you come back in two years, the changes here will be more than you think!"