Beijing Automobile News: A Good Start for China Capital Logistics- Ensuring Cars Delivery with Intelligent Means

In 2018, China’s automobile market experienced negative growth for the first time in 28 years, and the traditional vehicle logistics industry underwent tremendous changes due to the full implementation of GB1589.

“In 2019, both the automobile industry and the logistics industry will continue to face various challenges, and operating pressures will continuously exist.” On February 1, at the work deployment meeting for BAIC Group’s “good start ” in the first quarter of “good start” in 2019, Zhu Liguang, the General Manager of China Capital Logistics Co., Ltd. Owned by BAIC ROCAR made a prediction on the logistics market environment. 

How to deal with it? "Under pressure and challenges, the best way to turn hope into reality is to work hard." In his view, hard work is the only way to stand out.

Giving up Vacation to Guarantee Forwarding

At the midnight on January 1, the vehicle logistics office of China Capital (Guangzhou) Co., Ltd. was still busy.

"The plan is established. Distribute the tasks as soon as possible". “Can the cars be delivered to Northwest China and Northeast China?” “The transport capacity for tomorrow must be in place!”.... Since the New Year's Day, this office has been busy all the time.

Since the launch of BAIC Guangzhou's new product- SENDVA, numerous orders have been received. China Capital (Guangzhou) has received the shipment task of 1077 sets during the three-day holiday of New Year's Day.

In order to ensure that the cars are delivered on time, the Vehicle Logistics Department works overtime to guarantee the delivery, even if the employees on vacation are in a “standby” state in 24 hours a day. At the end of the holiday, on the way back to the company, when the computer power was about to run out, Zhou Weijie took out the paper and pen to allocate the tasks of shipping plan on the high-speed rail to ensure that the plan could be allocated to the carrier in the shortest time and that the commercial vehicles could be shipped within 24 hours.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, a call from Beijing made Gao Yunfei, the Director of the Intermodal Transport Department of China Capital Logistics Vehicle Center, end the Spring Festival holiday ahead of schedule.

"The shipping plan is established today. Can you arrange it?" Don't worry, I will do it right away!" After hanging up, Gao Yunfei immediately coordinated with the transport capacity, contacted the carrier, and made the plan and followed up the shipment through his mobile phone at home.

"Although the Spring Festival holiday is the time for family reunion, it is also an ordinary day in our construction period." Gao Yunfei said.

In order to ensure the normal operation of the multimodal transportation business of "highway, railway and waterway" before the Spring Festival, Gao Yun flew to many key railway stations and seaports across the country: Guangzhou, Shanghai, Wuhan, Xi'an, Jinan, Tianjin...In just half a month, he left his footprints throughout the country.

Through multi-round communication with 6 branches of China Railway Special Cargo Service Co., Ltd. and COSCO Shipping Specialized Carriers Co., Ltd., the delivery deployment of multimodal transportation business was completed before the Spring Festival, and the transportation capacity of railway carriages and ro-ro ships before the festival was reserved. After the plan is issued, the commercial vehicles were shipped out of the warehouse in time, loaded and shipped on time. After the train arrived at the station, the vehicles were unloaded and timely distributed on the same day.

In January, China Capital Logistics transported more than 100,000 commercial vehicles through the "road, railway and waterway" multimodal transport. In February, the planned volume also reached nearly 90,000, achieving a steady year-on-year growth.

Intelligent logistics, driving the development

In order to fully respond to the policy call of GB1589 and help the intelligent transformation and development of China Capital Logistics, the logistics transport capacity intelligent control system jointly developed by China Capital Logistics’ vehicle team and information center team comprehensively controls and performs data analysis for the car carriers carrying the resources of China Capital Logistics.

The system files all compliant vehicles from the source, and connects with the company’s TMS and the national road freight vehicle location service platform to monitor each car carrier in real time, achieving strict network access, strict supervision, and strict assessment; realizing the comprehensive mastery of transport capacity, and achieving the maximum integration of transport capacity resource scheduling. In combination with business characteristics and advanced technology, China Capital Xinghui has innovatively implemented the intelligent warehousing project of fuel tank exhaust pipes.

This project has broken through the traditional logistics and warehousing model, realized automated warehouse input and output, saved manpower input, greatly improved the operation accuracy and efficiency, realized the separation of personnel and equipment operations, and guaranteed production safety; the intelligent equipment and systems are closely interconnected. The one-to-one correspondence between physical objects and system data and real-time feedback have guaranteed the consistence of “accounts and objects”. In addition, during stocktaking and goods receiving and dispatch, the labor and material cost wastes are avoided due to the large variety of materials, large quantities and large volume. It has played a positive and important role in promoting the costs reduction and automated, intelligent development in the logistics industry.

The introduction of new technologies such as intelligent equipment and systems has enabled the enterprise to improve business stability and achieve the goal of "reducing costs and increasing efficiency", thereby enhancing the core competitiveness of China Capital Xinghui and helping China Capital Logistics transform into intelligent integrated logistics service provider.

Giving priority to transport chain alliance to develop the market

On January 25, in the office of Finance Center of China Capital Logistics, Xu Lei, the Finance Center of China Capital Logistics, was staring at the operation interface on the computer screen.

"Good news! The first financing waybill of ‘Transport chain alliance’ was successfully completed, with the first order amount up to RMB 2 million." Xu Lei excitedly told Wang Xingmin, the Director of Information Management Center of China Capital Logistics, the good news promptly.

After three months of hard work, the Finance Center and Information Management Center of China Capital Logistics finally promoted the formal completion of the first financing waybill on the "Transport chain alliance"-the automobile supply chain service platform.Meanwhile, they took the lead to occupy a position for China Capital Logistics in the supply chain finance service field.

When discussing the current challenges faced by vehicle logistics enterprise, China Capital Logistics innovatively proposed to use the “Transport chain alliance”, which is based on the blockchain technology and the actual business scenes of complete vehicle logistics and integrates logistics, settlement and supply chain finance in the industry to resolve the current difficulties faced at present. The “Transport chain alliance” was finally successfully launched to overcome the disadvantages of traditional paper waybill such as long circulation period, high cost, slow reconciliation and high possibility of loss, contamination and damage; under the multimodal transportation mode, the cooperation and operation difficulties between carriers have been increased; the upstream and downstream accounting and reconciliation cycle is long, and the payment period for average receivables of carriers are long; carriers are mostly small and medium-sized enterprises, facing difficulties:lack of credit accumulation and data, financing difficulty and high financing costs.

Wang Xingmin gave an reply to the “Transport chain alliance” from the technical level: "The alliance platform digitizes traditional paper documents and realizes the blockchain evidence storage of the electronic document signing process. The data is encrypted through the blockchain technology to ensure the data sovereignty and privacy of each business party. The asymmetric encryption is applied to ensure that the business data cannot be tampered with, to achieve a trusted account book for all parties in the supply chain, and bring significant efficiency improvement and costs reduction to all participants of supply chain based on the electronic document-based shipment new mode and online reconciliation and settlement new mode.”

On November 30 last year, China Capital Logistics, Shanghai Wanxiang and DBS jointly announced in Shanghai that the "Transport Chain Alliance-Automobile Supply Chain Service Platform" was officially launched. By cooperating with DBS, the innovation of supply chain financing services is realized. The carriers can apply for financing online through online reconciliation to provide carriers with more efficient and low-cost financial support. As the co-initiator of the "Transport Chain Alliance" platform, China Logistics will work with Wanxiang Blockchain and DBS to carry forward the "Transport Chain Alliance" plan and promote more industry companies to participate in cooperation in the future.

In 2019, China Capital Logistics will continue to improve the multimodal transport network and expedite its development at the direction of “marketization, intelligence, digitization and internationalization”. On the basis of ensuring the logistics of BAIC Group and consolidating its existing business, the company will intensify the development of market-oriented business and international business, expedite the deployment of logistics network nodes, improve the application capacity of intelligent technology and equipment, enhance the application capacity of digital technology and will continue to seek joint venture cooperation with other companies to ensure the achievement of operational guarantee targets in the first quarter and even throughout the year.

(Source: Beijing Automobile News)