International integrated logistics is the ultimate goal of many logistics companies. Its value is mainly reflected in providing customers with full-link logistics services based on the global trade supply chain by integrating its own or external logistics resources. 3PL is the most important operating entity in the domestic and foreign logistics industry. It is a logistics solution provider and organizer for various manufacturing and commercial circulation industries. By mobilizing its own transportation tools and warehousing facilities, as well as purchasing and integrating social transportation capacity and warehousing, 3PL resources to promote the socialization of intra-enterprise logistics.
However, tight customer relationships and high degree of customization will become a bottleneck for the development of 3PL. Even if each project is operated as an independent business, the management complexity and requirements for corporate resources will also increase. Exponentially rising, non-standard logistics services and accounts receivable will lead to operational limits. In contrast, in the express delivery and online less-than-truckload industries, due to service standardization, there are already many tens of billions of products.
Including the three major express delivery companies, 3PL is still an important part of their business, because 3PL is the earliest and most mature market group in the logistics industry. It is good at controlling large-scale customers and service quality, and can control other businesses. produce spillover effects. Agility in the Middle East, Geodis/SDV/Gefco in France, Dachser/Hellmann in Germany, Wincanton in the UK, Seino/KWE/Yusen in Japan, Damco under Maersk, YAF and Kerry Chase are all third-party logistics providers with international characteristics.
The demand for international logistics and localized services by transnational manufacturing industries, as well as the changes in flow caused by trade routes and globalization, are the keys to the growth of these transnational logistics. In the early years, the internationalization process of Japanese logistics companies was a process of following domestic brands and investment industries to go overseas.
In recent years, Chinese-funded overseas mergers and acquisitions have led to the internationalization of brands such as Lenovo and Huawei. Industrial durable goods such as Shenyang Machine Tool, Xugong Machinery, and Zoomlion have entered overseas markets. After-sales accessories and spare parts management have a lot of logistics. demand, but regional differences have caused obstacles to international trade flows, and there are still few domestic logistics companies with international capabilities to support it.
Franchise expansion is the way for China Express to become bigger and stronger. Recently, YTO, STO, etc. are looking for global franchisees, but they cannot be copied as easily as domestically. They need organization, processes, personnel, technology, etc. All-round landing. YTO has launched overseas plans and authorized overseas franchisees such as express delivery companies, overseas warehouses and purchasing agents in South Korea, Thailand, Germany, the United States, Russia and other regions to use its brand. Or acquire smaller competitors to fill specific strategic or regional gaps to gain a foothold and move toward “global supply chain solutions” step by step.
There are also the following hot spots. The first is fourth-party logistics. At present, open logistics integration led by e-commerce platforms is more successful. For example, AliExpress’s Wuyou Logistics, Wish Post, DHLink, etc. use order big data to drive logistics services. Sellers ship goods online, pay freight, and settle in a unified manner.
Cainiao Network is committed to building a full-network logistics link + big data connectivity, data empowerment and other warehousing and distribution integration of “cross-border + express delivery + warehousing and distribution + rural + terminal distribution”. The second is the cold chain. Cold chain transportation of imported food and agricultural products will become two key incremental markets. In the past ten years, my country’s imported food trade volume has increased 4.5 times, and most imported food categories require cold chain transportation.
The third is logistics parks. In 2015, there were a total of 1,210 logistics parks of various types in operation, under construction, and planning across the country, an increase of five times compared with 2006. Port service parks, bonded logistics parks, and “One Belt The rigid demand for parks along the “One Road” will make the next few years a new peak in park construction and operation. The fourth is cross-border logistics finance, relying on cross-border e-commerce to disrupt traditional foreign trade financial services.