Freight forwarding logistics enterprise exploration mode transformation

"In the past, the rapid development of the international freight forwarding industry mainly solved the problem of 'can do', and with the change of the competitive environment and the upgrading of customer demand, the focus of high-quality development is to solve the problem of 'doing well'. This is the industry innovation. The basic path of development.” On August 2nd, at the China International Freight Forwarding Industry Development Forum hosted by China International Freight Forwarders Association, International Business Newspapers and Zhejiang Jinhua Municipal People's Government, Zhao Huxiang, President of China International Freight Forwarders Association Make the above statement.

The China International Freight Forwarding Industry Development Forum is held once a year. The Forum insists on highlighting the characteristics of the times, constantly discovering the value of the industry and guiding the company to keep pace with the times. The theme of this forum focuses on high-quality development, in-depth discussion of the difficulties faced by the current freight forwarding enterprises, and is committed to promoting the quality transformation, efficiency transformation and dynamic transformation of the freight forwarding logistics industry.

China International Freight Forwarders Association released the "2017 China International Freight Forwarding Industry Development Report" at the forum. The report believes that last year, the Ministry of Commerce strengthened its research and made clear for the first time foreign trade, domestic circulation, foreign investment attraction, foreign economic cooperation and foreign aid. Five basic businesses, and proposed eight major action plans. The international freight forwarding is the product of the development of foreign trade. There are many types of logistics services. The five basic businesses clarify the important responsibilities of the business sector under the new situation, providing a new space for international freight forwarding enterprises to expand their business and expand the market.

In recent years, the international freight forwarding enterprises have grasped the bonus brought by the construction of the Belt and Road, and accelerated the development of new professional logistics business. It is complying with and guaranteeing the prosperity of China's foreign engineering contracting, foreign aid, cross-border e-commerce, trade and commerce. The need for upgrading upstream customer demand brought by development. For example, the joint development of major projects such as interconnection, capacity cooperation, and overseas industrial parks has directly promoted the development of engineering logistics, China-European trains, cross-border e-commerce and other emerging professional logistics. With the explosion of growth, as more and more freight forwarding companies become the mainstay of the operation and market sales of China-European trains, the rapid development of China-Europe trains provides a rare opportunity to enhance the profitability of traditional international rail transport and intensively operate overseas territories. Opportunity. The 2017 China International Freight Forwarding Top 100 ranking data shows that the rapid recovery of China's foreign trade has driven the growth of international freight forwarding related services such as shipping, air and land transportation, coupled with the gradual optimization of the business environment and the acceleration of supply side by large enterprises. Structural reform, focus on high quality development and bring about competition With the enhancement of factors and the increase of market concentration in the industry, the operating income of China's international freight forwarding companies in 2017 has achieved steady growth compared with the previous year, providing a basis for the growth of freight forwarding enterprises.

The report also analyzes the challenges faced by the freight forwarding industry. It believes that with the increasing trend of de-intermediation, integrated logistics and supply chain management brought by the Internet, international freight forwarding companies rely on information asymmetry and simple resource integration to survive. Development will become increasingly difficult, which is an unstoppable trend. The report proposes that in order to achieve high-quality development, international freight forwarding logistics companies need to focus on high-end customers, return to the attributes of logistics professional services, build a service supply chain from the operational level, improve the efficiency and quality of logistics services, and promote enterprise efficiency changes. And quality change; the second is to adapt to the changes of the dynamic environment, develop and enhance the dynamic ability based on the integration and reconstruction of resources such as knowledge and skills from the strategic level, continuously expand and update the basic operational capabilities of the enterprise, and continue to cultivate traditional freight forwarding with new kinetic energy. The competitive advantage of the company.

Li Guanpeng, President of Sinotrans Co., Ltd., in the keynote speech of the forum, combined with the practice of Sinotrans shares to explain the transformation and development of freight forwarding enterprises in detail. He believes that freight forwarding enterprises must abandon the traditional business model of relying on information asymmetry, relying on sitting on the market, relying on funds to pay and relying on operations to make money, grasp the current digitalization becomes the decisive factor of world economic development, technological progress has become a new engine to drive development, cross-border competition. These four key characteristics are intensified and the platform development pattern is strengthened. He said that the transformation and development of large freight forwarding logistics enterprises has four directions, namely, speeding up the platform transformation, transforming from the freight intermediary model to the logistics public e-commerce platform model; accelerating the digital transformation, from relying on information asymmetry to making money to relying on information big data. Make money transformation; accelerate the ecological transformation, break through the traditional flat profit model and upgrade to the three-dimensional ecological profit model; accelerate the intelligent transformation, from the channel experience design route to the algorithm data for supply chain optimization and integration.

In the speech on the innovation of international freight forwarding logistics enterprises, Mei Zanbin, deputy secretary general of China International Freight Forwarders Association, said that compared with a single professional logistics enterprise, freight forwarding enterprises can build logistics service supply by strengthening supply chain capability integration and member relationship coordination. Chain, the limitations of breakthrough capability improvement, quickly respond to the compound needs of customers, and fundamentally build strategic partnerships with customers to enhance customer stickiness and improve the overall performance of services.

Article source: International Business Daily

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