[Explanation] Unloading, sorting, and loading. On the day of Double Eleven, the reporter visited the SF Panyu Hualong Distribution Center in Guangzhou. It was a busy scene.
The distribution center covers an area of more than 50,000 square meters and has 3 fully automatic distribution warehouses. It is the most technologically advanced comprehensive distribution center set up by the express company in Guangzhou.
[Concurrent] Liang Wenhui, General Assistant of Guangzhou SF Public Affairs
Our entire Hualong Distribution Center has a daily processing capacity of 1 to 1.2 million pieces. On Double Eleven, like the peak of these days, it can handle 2.4 million pieces, which is the daily processing capacity. 2 times.
[Explanation] Shopping Festival is a festival for consumers, but behind the carnival, there are also opportunities and challenges for logistics companies. It is not easy for hundreds of millions of express mails to return to their respective places smoothly.
Practitioners told reporters that the orderly distribution of work is inseparable from the support of software and hardware. Technology is the most powerful support for logistics speed. Among them, the "ID card number" of express delivery-the three-segment code, is the key.
[Concurrent] Liang Wenhui, General Assistant of Guangzhou SF Public Affairs
Take this express as an example, the first code in it is 020WN, which means our Hualong Distribution Center’s code, and the next DG means the outlet where it is located, which means that the express went to the outlet in detail. The unit area, that is, its identity information.
[Explanation] In square inches, there is a collection of invisible black technologies. The chip in the barcode can provide all the information of the package.
In less than a second of confirmation time, these packages will go to each of the shunt nodes passing by the track, accurately deliver to 816 target points, and then take the packaging truck.
According to reports, in the past, a courier came here for about 3 hours to enter the next step of delivery. Now it only takes 40 minutes, and the transfer efficiency has increased by 3 to 5 times.
The distribution center's processing capacity has now reached 160,000 pieces per hour. Ten years ago, this rate was only 4,000 pieces per hour.
[Explanation] Liang Wenhui told reporters that although express delivery is like a mountain, with big data, express delivery can speak, and they can even reflect the development trend of the city's industry.
[Concurrent] Liang Wenhui, General Assistant of Guangzhou SF Public Affairs
The approximate ratio between the collection volume in Guangzhou and the delivery volume from outside to Guangzhou is 5 to 2. This is also a different place from previous years. This also reflects the development of local e-commerce in Guangzhou. The efficiency speed is very high.
Reporter Wang Qingran, Yuan Yue, Liu Zongyuan reports from Guangzhou
Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]