Look at the “green” responsibilities of logistics giants from SF Express, Cainiao and Suning

Double Eleven in 2020, troops are approaching, war is imminent, and everyone is busy.

Sellers are frantically stocking up, e-commerce platforms are frantically marketing, logistics and express companies are also arranging their troops in advance, and Uncle Zhang, the community cleaner downstairs in my house, also urgently takes care of people living in rural areas. Daughters-in-law, cousins, and brothers-in-law were summoned to the city to prepare for the war.

Based on Uncle Zhang’s experience, every year on Double Eleven, express boxes are littered in the corridors and beside the trash cans in various communities. As long as you are diligent enough, your whole family can earn 10,000 to 20,000 yuan by sweeping the building for a week. The money is easy.

Uncle Zhang’s little thoughts reflect a big problem in the e-commerce era: behind the national passion for shopping, express packaging has become one of the main sources of pollution in society.

According to data released by Greenpeace, a global environmental organization, my country's consumption of various express packaging materials increased from 20,600 tons in 2000 to 9.4123 million tons in 2018, bringing huge resource burden and environmental pressure. .

Currently, various logistics companies are accelerating green transformation, strengthening green operation technology innovation, constantly improving the level of green logistics, and are moving towards a green environment with low pollution, low consumption, low emissions, high efficiency, high efficiency and high benefits. Logistics transformation.

So, how is green logistics currently developing?

SF Express, Cainiao, and Suning have entered the market one after another, each with their own emphasis

In the past few years, almost all logistics companies and express delivery companies have released green logistics strategies, but most of them emphasize responsibility but are stingy. In terms of investment, green slogans have been shouted a lot, but the form is greater than the content.

Leading companies in the logistics industry such as SF Express, Cainiao, and Suning have chosen to invest real money in green logistics and explore low-carbon paths in the logistics industry from different directions.

SF Express established the SF Technology Packaging Laboratory in 2017, dedicated to the research of “recyclable” packaging materials. In 2018, the laboratory launched Feng·BOX, the first exclusive recycling box. Each Feng·BOX has a service life of dozens or even hundreds of times. In theory, 10 million recycling boxes can replace 500 million cartons. .

Unlike SF Express’s strategy of focusing on research and development, Cainiao Logistics focuses on recycling. The "Green Logistics 2020 Plan" launched by Cainiao Logistics in 2018 relies on the Cainiao Post's extensive deployment across the country to carry out the box return plan, and encourages users to dismantle express delivery on-site at the post station, recycle the express boxes, and realize resource reuse.

Suning Logistics’ green strategy started earlier. As early as 2014, Suning Logistics officially launched the research and application of green packaging, and the areas it explored were broader than those of SF Express and Cainiao. A series of initiatives have been launched from packaging recycling, electronic manifests, slimming tapes to exclusive express boxes, etc., leading the industry's thinking and application in the field of green logistics. The exclusive express box developed by Suning Logistics has achieved several Product iterations.

In 2018, Suning Logistics will conduct a strategic gathering around various innovative projects explored in green logistics and launch a larger "Qingcheng Plan", covering logistics warehousing, packaging, transportation, terminal The four major links carry out the practice of a series of new green products, new equipment, and new models to promote the implementation of full-link green logistics express cities across the country.

Suning Logistics’ “Qingcheng Plan” goes even further than SF Express and Cainiao. It has also teamed up with influential media to jointly share express boxes with the media, and launched an experiential green Logistics public welfare not only allows more people to truly experience green logistics services, but also promotes green and low-carbon social awareness education at a larger level.

Generally speaking, when early logistics giants promoted green logistics, they mainly focused on the research and development and recycling of green express packaging. SF Express has developed the most green packaging-related products, ranging from exclusive recycling boxes to PET woven bags. Cainiao’s return box plan is currently the most cost-effective way to recycle express boxes with the largest number of recycling sites.

Suning Logistics is the earliest company in the field, involves the most in all aspects of green logistics, and is also the most comprehensive and systematic.

The full-scenario green logistics system, driven by technology, has become the industry’s most common knowledge

Now, green logistics has embarked on a new journey, and technology-driven technology has become a new driving force. With the application of modern information technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data, intelligence is becoming the biggest driver of green logistics. Building a full-scenario green logistics system has become industry-wide knowledge.

Model innovation in the field of commercial circulation has greatly improved the convenience of life in this business world, but also brought huge environmental burdens. Technological research and development and technological evolution have become the only way to alleviate environmental burdens and restore a green world. hope.

At present, SF Express, Cainiao, and Suning all take technological research and development as their core driving force, and work hard from green packaging, distribution, warehousing and other aspects to integrate low pollution, low consumption, low emissions, high performance, high efficiency, High-efficiency green logistics is carried out to the end. Especially in terms of green warehousing, SF Express, Cainiao, and Suning have each shown their talents and are committed to building efficient, safe, high-quality, and environmentally friendly logistics parks and distribution centers.

In Zengcheng, Guangzhou, on the roof of the Cainiao Network Smart Logistics Park, solar panels continuously convert light energy into electrical energy, with an annual power generation of 10 million kilowatt hours, which can meet all the park’s electricity needs.

In Pudong, Shanghai, SF Express’s DHL automated warehouse uses box-type cargo-to-person robots to replace labor. Through efficient collaborative operations in the warehouse, it greatly improves warehouse efficiency and realizes information management. Realize the upgrade from "people looking for goods" to "goods to people", and storage and efficiency will improve together.

In Shanghai, Nanjing and other places, new energy and energy-saving forklifts are operating automatically in Suning’s smart green warehouses, and human-machine collaboration has greatly improved the efficiency of product picking. Moreover, all electrical appliances in the warehouse use energy-saving equipment, the air-conditioning energy efficiency level is above level 2, energy-saving fans are also used for ventilation, and the main body of the building is entirely made of renewable materials.

Not only that, Suning Logistics’ green strategy has penetrated into the entire logistics operation process from warehousing to main lines, and from there to delivery. Suning Logistics optimizes every possible impact on the environment from a scientific and technological perspective. For the pollution link, we use technological efficiency enhancement, alternative materials and new environmentally friendly operating standards to establish a refreshing green logistics full link.

All major logistics companies are accelerating green transformation, strengthening innovation in green operating technologies, and constantly improving the level of green logistics construction. Use smart logistics to leverage multiple aspects of logistics, and use big data to guide storage operations in the warehouse to accurately locate goods and improve work efficiency.

The thorny road of green logistics requires both structure and persistence

Like all green environmental protection projects, green logistics has always been a thorny road with high investment, slow results and long time consumption. , to the end, what matters is the enterprise’s structure and persistence.

At this year’s Two Sessions, Zhang Jindong, chairman of Suning Holdings Group, made suggestions on green logistics for three consecutive years and took the lead in promoting it within the company. Suning’s every step in promoting green logistics is worth real money. "Tossed" out. Not only does Qingcheng plan a full-link green logistics solution, but also the entire enterprise adheres to and implements it from top to bottom, and has achieved outstanding results in green packaging and green terminals.

Green logistics is inevitable for the sustainable development of modern logistics. On March 1, 2019, the National Development and Reform Commission, led by the National Development and Reform Commission, and 24 ministries and commissions jointly issued the "Opinions on Promoting High-Quality Development of Logistics and Promoting the Formation of a Strong Domestic Market", Article 14 clearly states “accelerating the development of green logistics” and uses green logistics as a breakthrough to drive upstream and downstream enterprises to develop green supply chains. In February this year, the State Post Bureau upgraded the express environmental protection goals to the "9792 Project" and promoted the development of green logistics.

The development of green logistics involves various aspects such as society, environment, and economy. It is a long-term collaborative development mechanism. Governments at all levels, logistics express delivery, e-commerce, and packaging companies need to form a joint force, and the pattern and Adhere to equal emphasis and explore the future of green logistics.

I believe that in the near future, Uncle Zhang will not be able to make "extra money" picking up cartons during Double Eleven, but he and his family in the village will have a greener world, and in a green world In a world where they don’t have to work hard to clean up the garbage produced in this world, they also have the opportunity to earn more profits around green logistics.