Intelligent logistics is the use of integrated intelligent technology, so that the logistics system can imitate human intelligence, with thinking, perception, learning, reasoning and judgment and the ability to solve some problems in logistics.

Intelligent logistics can independently complete logistics operations including order, transportation, warehousing and distribution by using automation equipment and information system, and achieve economic, efficient, reliable and environment-friendly development goals. The following is a detailed introduction to the analysis of intelligent logistics industry.

With the development of science and technology, it has become an irreversible trend to replace traditional manpower with high technology. In order to seize the opportunity of development, China must attach importance to the deep potential of intelligent logistics. Nowadays, the core technology of intelligent logistics, the Internet of Things, is one of the emerging industries that China focuses on cultivating, and it is also the backbone of our transportation industry in the future. Under the catalysis of national policy support and key technology public relations, only the logistics industry will usher in explosive development.

First, the historical development trend of China's logistics industry

Since 2010, China's logistics industry has maintained rapid growth. By 2013, the total cost of social logistics was 10.2 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9.3%; The total revenue of social logistics was 7.2 trillion yuan, up 9.2% year-on-year. The added value of logistics industry was 3.9 trillion yuan, up 8.5% year-on-year.

At present, most provinces and cities in China have established a relatively perfect intelligent transportation system, which has realized the online detection of expressways and the dynamic supervision of vehicles. Every link in China's RFID industry chain has shown a momentum of rapid growth. In 2012, China's RFID market reached 23.66 billion yuan, ranking third in the world. In May 2013, Alibaba Group launched the China Intelligent ChinasmartLogisticNetwork (CSN) project. In July 2014, China Post Group Corporation and Alibaba Group jointly signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement to jointly build the intelligent backbone Internet of Things in China.

The State Council recently issued the Medium-and Long-Term Planning for the Development of Logistics Industry (2014-2020) (referred to as "Planning") to deploy and accelerate the development of modern logistics industry, and proposed to basically establish a modern logistics service system with reasonable layout, advanced technology, convenience, high efficiency, environmental protection, safety and order by 2020. "Planning" clearly puts forward "accelerating the development of public information platform for transportation logistics", which shows the importance attached to the informationization and intelligent development of logistics industry.

Logistics is inseparable from transportation, transportation is inseparable from informationization, and transportation information must be interconnected to produce benefits. How to actively promote the sharing of transportation logistics information and strengthen the development and popularization of interconnected applications is a new work that is being carried out by the Ministry of Transport, provincial and municipal transportation departments and enterprises engaged in transportation logistics.

However, from the perspective of information construction, China logistics enterprises are still in a relatively primitive and low-level stage. According to statistics, only 21% of enterprises have implemented or partially implemented informatization, and only 10% have fully implemented informatization.

Second, the problems faced by the development of logistics industry

(A) "High social logistics costs" and "low profitability of logistics enterprises" coexist. Although the total amount of social logistics in China has increased rapidly, the total income of social logistics has increased steadily, and the added value of logistics industry has increased steadily, we must see that the price of logistics services in China is still low and the profitability of enterprises is weak. In the prosperity index of logistics industry in China, the profit index of main business in December was 50.3%, and the annual average was 50.6%, which remained at a low level. According to the survey of key logistics enterprises, from January to November, the main business income of key logistics enterprises increased by 5.3% year-on-year, and the profit rate of main business income was 4.1%, which was 0.9 percentage points lower than that of the same period of last year and 1.4 percentage points lower than that of industrial enterprises above designated size. Both sets of data reflect that the profitability of key logistics enterprises in China is weak.

(B) The problems of "logistics besieged city" and "last mile" are still outstanding. With the acceleration of urbanization, the shortage of logistics infrastructure resources such as warehousing has become increasingly obvious. At the same time, due to the traffic control of freight vehicles in the city, the problems of "difficult roads, difficult cars to stop, difficult goods to unload and hard to find certificates" have long existed.

(C) Financing difficulties of logistics enterprises and increasingly fierce competition in the logistics market. Logistics enterprises are mostly light assets enterprises, and the difficulty in obtaining mortgage loans and lack of funds have restricted the rapid development of logistics industry. Most of China's logistics enterprises are small in scale, weak in strength and low in ability, and are at a disadvantage in market competition with large international logistics companies.

(D) Low level of science and technology. On the one hand, the e-commerce of China's circulation enterprises still belongs to the "single-family" closed operation of e-commerce information, which fails to form a network platform for information resource sharing and industry, and the gap with world-class circulation enterprises is still very large; On the other hand, China lacks an information integration platform to connect manufacturers, retailers and customers, resulting in a long industrial chain, and multinational companies cannot communicate directly with customers on the information platform, resulting in very low logistics efficiency.

Third, the future development trend of logistics industry

At present, the vigorous development of next-generation information technologies, such as Internet of Things, cloud computing and mobile Internet, is promoting the transformation of intelligent logistics in China. It can be said that intelligent logistics will be the next stop of information logistics. Logistics informatization includes two major points: the collection of basic information and the sharing and exchange of information. For more related contents, please refer to the development trend of logistics industry in 2015 released by China Report Hall.

First, in the collection of basic information, we still have to rely on manual input of a large amount of information, so there are problems such as low efficiency, high error rate and untimely update, which affect the whole transmission and application in the later period, and this is the basis of informationization. At present, most of the solutions we adopt are to use RFID in logistics equipment, and indirectly grasp the information of commodities through dynamic tracking and identification, instead of applying RFID technology to every commodity at once.

In the national long-term science and technology planning research, informatization and standardization are listed as the two most important key technologies of logistics technology. The government and management departments at all levels should also strengthen the construction of basic environment, including the formulation of logistics information planning and corresponding laws, regulations, systems, standards and norms, the research and development of key logistics technologies and the exploration of application models, as well as the construction of infrastructure such as communications and networks.

Second, build a logistics public information platform, form a platform-based information exchange and sharing system, create a logistics information "highway", break the information island, and promote information exchange and sharing between different departments, different regions and upstream and downstream of the supply chain. Establishing a public platform has become a consensus, and everyone is calling for information integration. At present, according to the requirements of the Ministry of Transport, many provinces and cities in China have built a public information platform for transportation logistics, established relevant standards and norms for information interconnection, and built a basic exchange network for logistics information. However, people sometimes understand the public information platform as a tangible institution, a centralized information storage and management institution, or a centralized management database. I think this understanding is biased. There are many levels of work to be done in a system, and it may be necessary to establish some necessary centralized management databases, but it is more a mechanism and a model for information exchange and information sharing. Therefore, the platform is actually to create a way and environment for information exchange and information sharing.

The logistics industry is gradually forming seven development trends, which are informatization, intelligence, environmental protection, enterprise globalization and internationalization, service quality, industrial synergy and third-party logistics. With the in-depth development of global integration and the in-depth application of Internet and Internet of Things technologies, intelligent logistics will usher in a brand-new historical development opportunity.