Recently, the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (CFLP) announced the list of winners for the 2023 Science and Technology Awards. Cainiao won the first and second prizes for technological progress with its “Supply Chain Intelligent Planning Platform” and “RFID Key Technology Research for Food Supply Chain”.

Industry insiders say that the rapid development of technologies such as artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things has brought strong support for improving the quality and efficiency of the logistics industry. As a leader in logistics technology, Cainiao combines cutting-edge technology with practical scenarios, playing a leading role in the upgrading of supply chain intelligence.

It is understood that the CFLP Science and Technology Award is a social force award approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology and registered with the National Office for Science and Technology Awards. CFLP, as the nominating organization for national scientific and technological awards, can select and recommend outstanding projects from those that have received first prizes for scientific and technological progress or invention to participate in the national scientific and technological awards each year.

Taking the “Supply Chain Intelligent Planning Platform” that won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award as an example, this product can scientifically and effectively optimize the inventory cost and logistics cost of the supply chain while ensuring a high customer order fulfillment rate by using advanced algorithm simulation capabilities.

The “Supply Chain Intelligent Planning Platform” of Cainiao integrates data, algorithms, processes, visualization, and other capabilities, realizing online, automated, and transparent end-to-end planning from the market to the production side. Compared to traditional methods, this product has achieved multiple innovative results in the process of upgrading supply chain planning from “whether or not” to “good or not”, such as a plan workflow based on cross-business model that reduces planning workload from days to minutes; and through simulation algorithms, it reduces customer inventory levels, saving up to 18% in logistics costs and so on.

In the field of Internet of Things applications, Cainiao has also achieved new results, represented by RFID (precise radio frequency identification technology). In the food supply chain, packaging is an essential part of maintaining food quality, reducing food waste, and ensuring food safety. RFID, as an important information carrier in smart packaging technology, has the characteristics of traceability, high efficiency, and non-contact, and has high value in food and goods inventory, inbound and outbound handover, and full-chain traceability. However, RFID is an automatic identification technology based on wireless sensors. In the field of food supply chain, the application environment of metal packaging boxes, liquids, etc. has a serious adverse impact on the accuracy of RFID reading.