On November 25th, the award ceremony for the 2nd Global Digital Trade Expo Pioneer Award (DT Award) was held at the Hangzhou International Expo Center. As a representative of advanced practices in the global smart logistics field, Cainiao's PLC series products and supply chain control tower and other self-developed products have been successfully selected.

It is reported that the judges of this year's DT Awards were selected from nearly 30 experts in the fields of economy, trade, digital economy, and digital technology from both domestic and international backgrounds. The winning works must have a high level of industry leadership and market applicability.

At this digital trade expo, Cainiao also won many honors, including “Top 25 Innovative Enterprises in Global Digital Service Trade in 2023”, “First Batch of Demonstration Enterprises for Cross-border Data Flow in Hangzhou”, and “Top 100 Digital Trade Enterprises in Zhejiang Province in 2023”. Ding Hongwei, Vice President of Cainiao Group and General Manager of the Logistics Technology Business Unit, was selected as an “expert of the Digital Trade Think Tank”.

In addition, Cainiao leverages its technological capabilities and operational advantages to support the construction of express logistics smart collaboration projects in over 1,200 counties and thousands of express delivery companies nationwide, which have been selected as “leading counties in national county-level commerce” case studies.

Cainiao is the industry-leading global intelligent logistics service provider and the world's largest cross-border e-commerce logistics enterprise. Today, with the insight into e-commerce, advanced technology, and intelligent logistics network, Cainiao has established global end-to-end logistics capabilities and continues to innovate in advanced technologies such as smart hardware, automation, Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, thereby reducing costs and improving efficiency.

Taking the self-developed PLC series products that won the current DT award as an example, this product is known as the “central brain” of automated equipment because it can control various types of mechanical equipment or production processes. The self-developed PLC series products by Cainiao not only have 100% domestically produced core chips, but the whole machine has also obtained EU CE certification, and can reduce costs by more than 50% while ensuring self-development.

The Cainiao supply chain control tower, which has five core capabilities including panoramic visibility, abnormal alarm, intelligent diagnosis, assisted decision-making, and business collaboration, also has unique advantages in promoting supply chain digitization. Currently, not only domestic fast-moving consumer goods, logistics, aviation, manufacturing and other industry customers are using this product to improve efficiency and quality, but also a group of overseas enterprises are collaborating with Cainiao on related projects.

As the only national and international professional exhibition with digital trade as its theme in China, the International Digital Trade Expo invited Cainiao to participate in the first launch and debut event. Cainiao’s new technology products, such as the Cainiao RFID logistics channel machine and aviation board algorithm, which were showcased on site, also received attention from all parties present.

This expo is the “debut” of the Cainiao RFID logistics channel machine, which can be widely used in factories, warehouses, logistics centers, and other places. Compared to traditional warehousing modes, its advantage lies in the fact that the built-in reader of the channel machine can automatically read the quantity of RFID tags on the goods, perform dual verification of quantity and SKU, thereby saving labor costs, reducing warehouse in and out time, and improving work efficiency.

Taking a certain leading men's clothing brand as an example, in the traditional operation mode, the warehouse operations often rely on manual labor, scanning item by item. This not only highly depends on manual labor but also has low efficiency. During the peak period of the apparel industry, a skilled worker responsible for receiving goods in the warehouse can typically handle 15-20 items per minute, while the Cainiao RFID channel machine can process over 1,200 items per minute. Not only does automated assembly line work have high efficiency, but the function of one item, one code also guarantees accuracy.

The Cainiao's aviation board algorithm has changed the problem of relying solely on experience for manual judgment in the past. Through Cainiao artificial intelligence technology, the system will immediately calculate the weight, volume, and placement location of the goods, and load them into the most valuable cabin space. At the same time, it will provide a 3D loading diagram for the loading process, achieving maximum value for limited cabin space.