Recently, the German iF Design Award, known as the “Oscars of the design industry”, announced the list of winners for 2023. After winning the iF Design Award for the “Cainiao Intelligent Logistics Big Screen” in 2022, Cainiao has once again been shortlisted for this year's iF Design Award with the carbon digitalization system created in collaboration with Yili.?

The official website of the iF Design Award shows that the carbon digitalization system created by Cainiao in collaboration with Yili can effectively solve the problem of enterprise data silos and achieve a carbon panoramic solution with the support of the enterprise ecosystem, promoting carbon neutrality and sustainable development.

The iF Product Design Award was established in 1954 and is held annually by the Industrie Forum Design (iF), the oldest industrial design organization in Germany. As a highly prestigious award in the field of contemporary industrial design recognized internationally, the iF Product Design Award is considered one of the world's three major design awards alongside the Red Dot Award and the IDEA Award.

This year, iF Product Design Award recognizes the digital supply chain capabilities of Cainiao Logistics Technology. Digitization, automation, and intelligence are the three main directions that Cainiao Logistics Technology focuses on.

In terms of digitization, Cainiao Logistics Technology has provided services to many well-known companies in the fields of fast-moving consumer goods, logistics, manufacturing, and automotive through a full-chain, omni-channel digital supply chain product driven by data and assisted by algorithms, and has provided assistance to these companies in achieving supply chain digitization and green transformation.

Taking the cooperation between Cainiao and Yili as an example, as representatives in their respective fields, both parties have made leading explorations in responding to the "dual carbon" strategy and building a green supply chain. Yili is the first company in the Chinese food industry to announce a dual carbon target and roadmap, and it aims to achieve carbon neutrality across the entire industry chain by 2050. Cainiao is the earliest company in China's logistics industry to initiate green actions. The full-chain carbon digital system, created through collaboration between both parties, covers seven major stages including ranching, manufacturing, packaging, warehousing, transportation, end stations, and consumers, for carbon emissions and carbon reduction calculations.

The carbon account management system extracts and integrates data from Yili's production and manufacturing, logistics, and consumer ends, and monitors carbon emissions, tracks carbon footprints, and manages carbon assets through digital visualization. It also provides predictive analysis for the carbon panorama. This not only effectively solves the problem of enterprise data silos but also realizes a carbon panorama solution with the support of the enterprise ecosystem.

Relying on the Cainiao green supply chain system, Yili has achieved green storage and shipping. According to calculations, based on the cooperation between both parties, each package can reduce carbon emissions by over 50 grams. Just one of Yili's Tmall official flagship stores can reduce carbon emissions by approximately 700 tons in half a year.