Chapter 1606 Capacity and Efficiency Are More Important than Money

Since the rapid development of Taobao and Taobao Logistics in Brand Day and SARS, Li Mu has not found a suitable opportunity to promote the hard power behind Taobao and Taobao Logistics.

Traditional self-bragging is fine, but the effect is not so good after all, and it is not so explosive. The best way is to pretend to be invisible.

The highest level of invisible pretending is not that I say I am awesome, but that I show my awesome side and make others stunned and say I am awesome.

Therefore, Li Mu deliberately brought William to visit, in fact, to show the outside world the development of Taobao and Taobao logistics through him.

Especially in the western world, they have a very good understanding of Muye Technology, but they have basically only heard of Taobao and Taobao Logistics, and they know that this company is also owned by Li Mu, but they have no idea how this company is doing.

Li Mu also wants to show the western world his Taobao and Taobao logistics through William's perspective. The height and scale they have reached at this stage will help Western people to understand Taobao and Taobao logistics.

Taobao and Taobao Logistics are very different from Muye Technology's business. Muye Technology's business is completely online, so it can expand its business to any corner of the world along the network line, but Taobao and Taobao Logistics still no.

E-commerce is almost an industry that combines online and offline. It is easy to expand to overseas markets, but the offline part is very difficult, and the logistics is even more difficult. After so many years of development, it has not really made much overseas. Great Hall of Fame.

Even at this stage, with the rapid development of Muye Technology, Li Mu has no plans to let Taobao and Taobao Logistics go overseas for the time being.

However, the fact that they are not ready to go overseas for the time being does not mean that they are not ready to develop overseas in the future.

Li Mu still understands the rapid rise of Amazon in the next ten years. Once Taobao and Taobao Logistics have accumulated enough strength in China, he will inevitably pour in a huge amount of money, so that these two products will be bundled together and go overseas.

It is not yet time to go out to sea, but it is still necessary to prepare the propaganda in advance. What's more, advertising to the Western world through William is more effective than other means.

After the news of William's visit to Taobao Logistics was released, Li Mu's plan received excellent feedback. Most people in Western countries have an impression of Huaxia, which is still in a backward and unopened prejudice. The success of Muye Technology is in their eyes. , is an example of overtaking on an Internet curve, but it does not mean that the private enterprises in this country have entered a stage of rapid development.

but,

Taobao logistics, from warehousing to sorting, to the entire informatization process of transportation, has fooled the people of the entire Western countries.

Li Mu can confidently say that the logistics of small items in any country in the world is far less advanced than Taobao logistics!

The reason is very simple. In any country, e-commerce is far from developing as fast and mature as Huaxia. Therefore, small logistics has not yet ushered in the peak of demand in any other country. In this case, getting involved in small logistics Logistics companies simply have no motivation to innovate.

However, Taobao is different. Li Mu faces a huge market with a population of 1.3 billion. He has a large set of guiding ideology that matured more than ten years later, and has sufficient financial and technical strength to quickly expand the 2C-end e-commerce. powerful.

And 2C, that is, e-commerce for ordinary consumers, most of the orders belong to small logistics, so Li Mu naturally has enough motivation to quickly promote the strength of Taobao logistics in small logistics.

Because of this, Taobao Logistics has shown the innovative side of Huaxia's private enterprises to the whole world.

In the early 21st century, there are not many companies in the world that can be fully informatized and automated, especially in the traditional entity industry. However, a logistics company in China is deliberately and racking its brains to do informatization and automation. , This almost sci-fi operation process is enough to shock people all over the world.

For a time, the entire Western media almost as agreed, praised Taobao Logistics. Many media even believed that Taobao Logistics is a model for the development of global private enterprises. Its awareness is ahead of its time, almost an era ahead of traditional industries.

Even the German media said sourly in their own reports: "Li Mu took our automatic sorting system and our heavy-duty trucks, and then like magic, he came up with such a grand and advanced system. The logistics system, they even installed chips, radio frequency systems and GPS positioning systems in every truck made in Germany. We were thinking about how to make the trucks run farther and faster, but Li Mu connected our trucks. The Internet, making them part of the Internet system..."

The Japanese media have the most sour taste, they said: "Our GDP is higher than Huaxia, but there is no Internet company comparable to Makino Technology in our country. Oh no, there seems to be no Internet company in our country. As for small logistics , I feel that the package volume of Taobao Logistics in one day is close to the whole year of Japan..."

The proud British media said: "Thanks to Prince William for helping us open our eyes and shattering our usual self-confidence and arrogance. Taobao Logistics is a sci-fi operation process that is enough for every British company to study hard for a period of time. We need The reflection is why we have never tried our best to make a system run more perfectly like Taobao Logistics."

The American media, which has always regarded itself as a technology pioneer, also expressed the same view: "It's just an ordinary small piece of logistics. In the eyes of Americans, it is to mail a postcard from one city to another. It doesn't need to be fast, as long as It is enough to arrive before Christmas or New Year's, even if the postcard is only sent in October, but Li Mu, who is far away in China, is trying his best to shorten the logistics time between most cities in this country to less than 24 hours. , is also a postcard. In the United States, you have to prepare a month or two in advance, otherwise you will miss the festival, but in China, as long as you remember the day before the festival, you can send the postcard to your friends on time Here, it’s the gap in doing things, but at the end of the day, it’s the gap in entrepreneurial thinking.”

In the face of the world's praise, Li Mu was extremely satisfied, but at the same time, he was not worried about leaking secrets.

Brother Liu and Mr. Lei are still a little worried, whether Li Mu has disclosed too much, and even announced his own algorithm, logic, and processing plan, whether it will benefit potential competitors in the future.

Li Mu didn't care at all. Instead, in Taobao's high-level meeting room, he confidently said to the two of them: "Small logistics is so insanely informatized and automated that only we in the world can do it, and only we have the ability to do it. need."

"Look at UPS, the family has a big business, and its business is all over the world, where is their money? The fleet, constantly expanding the fleet, owns hundreds of aircraft, and leases hundreds of them, such a heavy asset model Let’s try it out by letting them realize full automation and informatization on a global scale in a short period of time, and update all the logistics hubs around the world with automated equipment and all warehousing equipment, and it won’t take long for them to be dragged down!”

"The bigger the scale, the more difficult it is to make a comprehensive innovation. The cost is too high. The CEO does not have the courage, and the board of directors does not have it. They can only upgrade and innovate little by little, and take a long time to complete the whole system. Iterate."

"On the other hand, small and medium-sized logistics enterprises are struggling to survive under the blow of large enterprises, and they do not have enough capital to support them. How can they imitate us? Not to mention, as for the logistics management system we are using now, only large Internet R&D companies can It is possible to do it, such as architecture design, software support, hardware design, software and hardware linkage debugging, combination optimization, and leak detection. With so much work sitting down, the comprehensive R&D cost of a system must be more than 10 million US dollars. The maintenance cost is also staggeringly high, who can afford it?”

Senior Brother Liu was stunned for a while, then scratched his head and said, "So, not many people can really afford to play..."

Cult Master Lei also smiled and said, "Listening to Mr. Li's analysis, I feel much more at ease."

Li Mu said with a smile: "Not every logistics company has a Taobao.com and Muye Technology behind it. When the hardware laboratory of Muye Technology continues to develop in the field of software and hardware development of smart devices in the future, our informatization level can be further improved. In the next step, we will further increase the construction of domestic distribution centers, use more distribution centers to disperse the pressure on core hubs, and at the same time use more advanced technology and equipment to improve our overall turnover efficiency."

Brother Liu said: "Our next step is to continue to build warehousing and sorting centers to increase the density, especially in the southeastern region."

Li Mu nodded and said, "Storage capacity and operational efficiency are one aspect, and transportation capacity is another aspect. Our fleet will continue to expand. At the same time, we will continue to increase cooperation with civil aviation and strive to sign long-term strategies with several major airlines. A cooperation agreement to win most of their belly warehouse resources."

After speaking, Li Mu said again: "Senior Brother Liu, I heard that the country is planning the fifth major railway speed increase. Do you understand this?"

Brother Liu immediately said: "I understand, the speed increase this time is different from the past, the action is very big."

Li Mu asked him, "What are the specific performances?"

Brother Liu said: "I have a high school classmate who is studying mechanics. He works as an engineer at Qishuyan Locomotive Factory. I heard that he was going to have a big speed increase and talked to him specifically. He gave me some hardware-level information."

Li Mu was interested, and hurriedly said, "Tell me."

Brother Liu said: "Qishuyan Locomotive Factory has developed a new set of two-engine reconnected passenger locomotives, the model is DF11G. The biggest difference between this locomotive and other Dongfeng locomotives is that it runs fast, with a designed maximum speed of 170 kilometers per hour, which is very remarkable. "

Lei Cult Master asked curiously: "Mr. Liu, let me interrupt, what is dual-machine reconnection?"

Brother Liu said: "It's just two locomotives that run together. DF11G is a fixed two locomotives that are connected together, so the traction power will be higher, the acceleration will be high, and it is suitable for fast running."

Li Mu asked him, "Brother Liu, what are these new locomotives mainly used for?"

Brother Liu said: "Of course it is passenger transport. In terms of railway transport, freight transport is more jogging, while passenger transport is less dragging and fast running. The locomotive with a design speed of 170 kilometers per hour is born for passenger transport. I heard that the railway department plans to use this locomotive for driving. The direct train between first- and second-tier cities in the country, which is the prefix of Z, generally speaking, the distance between Yanjing and the Shanghai Stock Exchange can be achieved in the evening."

Li Mu asked again, "What good news is there for us?"

Brother Liu said: "We do small logistics, in fact, it is more like passenger transportation, and it is most suitable for express trains. In the future, if such direct trains are opened from provincial capitals to first-tier cities across the country, the speed will be much faster than our automobile transportation. , The load and cost are much lower than air transportation. It is right in the middle of land transportation and air transportation. The cost performance is very high. The easiest thing is that we can directly cooperate with the railway department. , and even apply for the opening of a point-to-point express package train."

Speaking of this, Brother Liu got a little excited and said, "Mr. Li, think about it, a container truck has a 40-foot cabinet and a volume of over 50 cubic meters. However, the XL25T car bottom produced by the railway department is constructed at a speed according to It is designed at 180 kilometers per hour, which completely matches the DF11G, and its effective volume of a single vehicle exceeds 160 cubic meters. One wagon can fit three container trucks. One special train is 20 wagons. This time, the top of the train is 60. A container truck!"

When Li Mu heard this data, he was immediately excited.

Brother Liu continued: "Look, the design speed is 170 kilometers per hour, and it will arrive in the evening. That is to say, the truck will be loaded from Yanjing at 8 o'clock tonight and will arrive at the Shanghai market at 8 o'clock in the morning. The same distance, the container truck will run. It’s almost 24 hours, how big is the gap? If the railway department is willing to open a special train for us, one train a day, two trains depart from Shanghai and Yanjing, and within 12 hours, we can travel between the two cities. Exchange of 120 containers of goods! This efficiency is not much slower than that of an airplane! The key is that the capacity is large and the price is higher!"

Li Mu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he blurted out: "This is reliable! If we can open a special train between major hubs, our entire turnover speed and transportation capacity will be greatly improved. The increase in speed and capacity will also affect Taobao's business development. A huge boost, that's so important to us!"

After that, Li Mu said to Brother Liu, "Brother, hurry up and find a way to establish in-depth cooperation with the railway department. We firmly support the speed increase of the railway, and are willing to be the first batch of cooperative enterprises for the speed increase of the railway. In any case, we must ask the railway department for help. We have opened several special express trains, and even if it costs more, we must find a way to win it! At this stage, capacity and efficiency are far more important to us than money!”