After the release of the opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on accelerating the construction of a national unified market (hereinafter referred to as the opinions), the reporter of Beijing business daily noted that on April 11, some logistics stocks such as Guangzhou Jiacheng International Logistics Co.Ltd(603535) , Transfar Zhilian Co.Ltd(002010) , Guangdong Jushen Logistics Company Limited(001202) , etc. ushered in gains. It is understood that the opinion proposes to establish a unified market system and rules, break local protection and market segmentation, open up the key blocking points of economic cycle, promote the smooth flow of commodity factor resources, and build a national unified market with high efficiency, standardization, fair competition and full opening. However, some practitioners believe that in the multi-point outbreak environment of the national epidemic, the current logistics supply chain blocking points still need to be dredged urgently.
logistics blocking point is severe
“Local epidemic prevention policies are different and cannot be interconnected, resulting in many freight vehicles unable to go out or blocked on the road.” A senior logistics practitioner described the current situation of the logistics industry to the reporter of Beijing business daily, “Once the epidemic breaks out in a certain area, it will bring a series of effects, such as high-speed traffic jam, park closure and soaring car prices, which will eventually lead to the soaring price of people’s livelihood commodities such as vegetables. For example, in Shanghai, the car price of hundreds of yuan in the urban area has risen to thousands of yuan, and the car price of trunk logistics is even more expensive. There is almost no standard price, which is asking for price casually, because once the driver is on the road, he may be isolated.”
Nowadays, Shanghai, Changchun and other cities are still under the pressure of epidemic outbreak, and the challenges at the logistics end are also more severe. According to a courier practitioner, affected by the epidemic, Shanghai Express has been suspended on a large scale. After April 7, Shanghai began to gradually allow enterprises to be sealed and controlled outlets and couriers to return to their posts, and the problem of material distribution is expected to be alleviated.
The reporter of Beijing business daily noted that after April 8, a large number of enterprises, such as Shunfeng, Zhongtong, rookie and Jingdong Logistics, deployed many employees to participate in the “last mile” material distribution support in Shanghai. For example, Jingdong Logistics has deployed more than 2000 Jingdong couriers to participate in the first-line guarantee, while RT mart, HEMA, rookie and other enterprises have added a total of 3000 guarantee personnel.
At the same time, the Ministry of transport stressed at a recent meeting on the working mechanism of logistics support coordination that it is strictly prohibited to set up epidemic prevention detection points in the main line and service area of the expressway, and it is strictly prohibited to shut down the expressway service area without authorization, so as to ensure the continuous highway traffic network, the continuous green channels for emergency transportation and the continuous transportation channels for necessary people’s production and living materials.
strengthen information symmetry
The smooth business flow is inseparable from the connection of logistics. In the requirements of “building a modern circulation network”, the reporter of Beijing business daily learned that the opinions clearly need to optimize the layout of commercial circulation infrastructure, speed up the digital construction, promote the development of Wuxi Online Offline Communication Information Technology Co.Ltd(300959) integration, and form more new platforms, new business forms and new models of commercial circulation. Vigorously develop third-party logistics, support the construction of digital third-party logistics delivery platform, promote the innovation of technology and business model of third-party logistics industry, cultivate a number of digital platform enterprises and supply chain enterprises with global influence, and promote the cost reduction and efficiency increase of logistics in the whole society.
In short, in order to make all links of production, distribution, circulation and consumption more unblocked, in addition to opening up all transportation links of logistics, it is also necessary to realize digital and efficient matching and sharing on the information side, so as to improve the flexibility and adaptability of the supply chain in the outbreak environment.
Under the test of the epidemic, some online freight platforms such as manbang and luge have been launched recently to help truck drivers understand epidemic prevention policies, find sources of goods and other related functions. It is understood that since the end of March, manbang has launched the functions of “epidemic prevention reference”, “one key communication” and “one key cargo sweeping”. Drivers can not only check the epidemic prevention policies of various places at any time, but also match the goods sources around the departure place, destination and along the way by relying on the platform numbers, so as to reduce the empty running of trucks.
get through depends on the group
“At present, the front-line operation is under great pressure, and the order volume is about to catch up with the ‘double 11’, but at present, there are many emergencies in the process of epidemic control, which can not be controlled by the platform.” An e-commerce practitioner said that the card points need to be unblocked in the warehouse, vehicle license and even the streets. Once the key points on the supply chain are broken, the consequences are that the goods are in the warehouse and the vegetables are in the ground. But on the whole, it is much more optimistic now than before, because many card points and blocking points are being dredged or have been dredged.
From the production end to the consumption end, if the business flow is compared to the “blood” that nourishes the lives of urban residents across the country, the logistics network constitutes an important artery and capillary for transporting “nutrition”. Chen Yanyan, a special researcher of China logistics society, believes that clearing the logistics blocking points involves information symmetry and regional segmentation. The implementation of their own epidemic prevention policies by various governments will cause some problems. In the face of epidemic prevention, we should ensure the smooth flow of logistics without discrimination. In addition, it is difficult to get through the logistics industry only by the top-level designers.
In addition to the logistics dimension, the Opinions also put forward requirements on the unification of the commodity and service market, that is, to improve the commodity quality system, improve the standard and measurement system, and comprehensively improve the quality of consumer services. For example, deepen the reform of quality certification system, support social forces to carry out inspection and testing business, explore and promote the construction of measurement regional center and national product quality inspection and testing center, and promote the cross industry and cross regional mutual recognition of certification results.
On the consumer side, the opinion proposes to speed up the improvement and strict implementation of the defective product recall system, promote the market players operating across countries and regions to provide consumers with unified and convenient after-sales services, further unblock the return and exchange channels of goods in different places and different stores, and improve consumers’ post-sale experience.
