On May 14th, SSCL APAC 2024-the 7th Asia-Pacific Smart Supply Chain and Logistics Innovation Summit 2024, with 3,000 attendees, opened in Shanghai. At the summit, the “SSCL Golden Chain Award” for 2024 was officially announced. Cainiao Logistics Technology won the Best/Excellent Data Service Award and the Best/Excellent Robot and Automation Award respectively, based on their One Code One Item platform and Smart Park Management System.

As a leading smart logistics company, Cainiao has been committed to empowering the entire logistics value chain through creating a global smart network and continuous technological innovation since its establishment. As one of the important business segments of Cainiao Group, Cainiao Logistics Technology adheres to the genes of Cainiao's intelligence and the advantages of rooted logistics, and has accumulated core technological capabilities such as automation, IOT, AI, big data, etc., forming a rich portfolio of technology products and industry solutions. Currently, a group of leading enterprises in the logistics, fast-moving consumer goods, automotive, industrial manufacturing, energy and chemical industries have successfully created technology-driven intelligent logistics through cooperation with Cainiao Logistics Technology.

“SSCL Golden Chain Award” Best/Excellent Data Service Award - Cainiao One Code One Item Platform

The model of supply chain competition is gradually evolving into competition based on a digital environment. The supply chain system of domestic enterprises is mostly still in an information isolated state: information collection in various links such as raw material management, production, warehousing, shipping, and terminal sales relies on manual work, and data presentation is sporadic. Moreover, the update cycle of information is long and prone to errors, and there is a lack of efficient collaboration between nodes. Faced with increasingly complex supply chain management needs, enterprises are demanding more and more visualization, real-time, and refinement. To this end, Cainiao Logistics Technology has accumulated a series of product capabilities and solutions, among which the one-code platform is a typical representative.

The Cainiao One Code One Item Platform is a set of supply chain end-to-end data management platform that can be integrated with enterprise supply chain systems, ERP systems, WMS systems, WCS systems, and other systems. In the entire business process, the system uses RFID as the unique code for the goods. RFID, as a means of data collection, can not only enrich data sources and granularity, but also achieve real-time data synchronization. Moreover, compared to RFID technology on the market, Cainiao's customized tags based on chip development greatly improve the sensitivity of RFID recognition, especially effectively solving the problem of difficult accuracy improvement in scenarios involving metal and liquid.?

After the application of technologies such as RFID in factories, warehouses, and stores, not only does it provide a set of standardized and consistent data for each process node, but it also ensures the stability of the entire system through functions such as remote status monitoring, exception reporting, and online upgrades of devices.?

The entire Cainiao One Code One Item Platform also provides new ways and new assistance for the digital upgrade of enterprise supply chain: through the Cainiao One Code One Item, the upstream production end realizes the one-box-one-code of goods, making the end-to-end goods traceable throughout the entire chain; the digital capabilities of stores are significantly improved, and the efficiency of receiving and inventorying is effectively improved; in addition, combined with the integration of the entire chain information system, the upstream and downstream also have system coordination capabilities.

By deploying the Cainiao One Code One Item platform, a group of leading enterprises have achieved tangible changes.

After deploying the Cainiao One Code One Item platform, the warehouse product visualization level of a leading company has been improved. Not only has it achieved more refined management, but it has also enhanced the production forecasting capability throughout the entire supply chain. Supply chain management has also been significantly optimized, with a reduction of approximately 25% in the working service time for both warehouse and store employees. Thanks to the automatic collection of data for inbound and outbound operations, human errors have been greatly reduced, leading to a decrease in labor costs by 20%-30%. Meanwhile, the One Code One Item Platform can also provide product traceability capabilities, thereby playing a positive role in ensuring food/drug safety.

Best/Excellent Robot and Automation Award - Cainiao & Jotun COSCO Smart Park Project

Not only in the fast-moving consumer goods industry, in the recent period, Cainiao Logistics Technology has actively penetrated into the manufacturing, automotive, chemical, new energy and other industries, and successfully created a number of benchmark projects. For example, the Jotun COSCO Smart Park project was selected for the “SSCL Golden Chain Award” for Best/Excellent Robot and Automation Award.?

Like many traditional industries, the chemical industry is currently in a critical stage of transformation from traditional extensive models to refined, green, and intelligent models. In the face of increasingly fierce international competition and environmental pressure, the chemical industry urgently needs to undergo digital transformation to achieve precise control, energy saving and emission reduction, and optimization and upgrading of the entire supply chain process. Among them, Jotun, a globally renowned paint company, has become an outstanding player in the digitalization of the supply chain.

Due to the lack of a unified information platform and real-time information transmission, production companies and logistics companies often encounter the following problems: low matching degree between vehicle arrival time and actual loading and unloading time; insufficient preparation by drivers before entering the factory, long processing time during the entry process, and a large time difference between arrival time and actual entry time; entry verification, vehicle weighing, waiting for scheduling, and other processes rely on manual operation, and long delays at checkpoints are common; real-time dynamics of vehicles are difficult to know, requiring frequent communication across departments, and weak coordination of planning...?

By partnering with Cainiao Logistics Technology, Jotun COSCO has successfully implemented deep intelligent transformation of its Qingdao production base. A smart park management system, built through the collaboration of both parties, integrates software and hardware technologies. It comprehensively covers the four major elements of people, vehicles, goods, and factories, as well as their related business processes within the park. This includes driver appointment for entering the factory, factory access, weighing, platform scheduling, loading and unloading monitoring, and factory departure, among other aspects.?

After the project went live, it successfully implemented online appointment management to optimize the efficiency of truck entry into the park, deployed an intelligent access control system to ensure safe and efficient control of vehicles and personnel entering and exiting, used advanced scheduling algorithms for dynamic matching of platform resources to reduce loading and unloading waiting times, utilized video surveillance and Internet of Things technology to visually supervise the entire loading and unloading process to ensure standardized operations and timely response to anomalies, and automated the handling of departure procedures to accelerate the vehicle departure process.

Compared to other park renovation methods in the industry, the Jotun COSCO Smart Park project demonstrates unique technological advantages and functional features in terms of refined appointment management, intelligent entrance control, factory navigation and intelligent scheduling, as well as decision optimization based on big data and algorithms. Finally achieve the refined management and operational efficiency of park logistics activities in an all-round, digitalized, and intelligent manner.

The main person in charge of the Jotun COSCO Smart Park project, Han Lin and Sang Qi, commented, “The Cainiao team has used professional skills and technological advantages to help our company create a system that integrates fine appointment, scientific scheduling, online qualification review, and unmanned weighing, significantly improving the efficiency and order of the park's operation, and building an efficient, smooth, and visualized new logistics ecosystem for the park, fully demonstrating Cainiao’s profound strength and leading position in the field of smart logistics”.

The expert in logistics technology solutions from Cainiao Logistics Technology stated during the summit that, as a leading one-stop logistics technology solution service provider, Cainiao Logistics Technology has formed a rich array of products and capabilities in digital supply chain, automation, Internet of Things, smart hardware, and other areas. Besides, it has developed solutions and leading practices in the digitalization of supply chains in logistics, fast-moving consumer goods, automotive, industrial manufacturing, energy, and chemical industries. Next, Cainiao Logistics Technology will continue to delve into the industry and work with customers to create more value.