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Longxiangxing Logistics has been cultivating for 16 years, gradually transitioning from traditional logistics to modern new logistics. Our company has started to cultivate design, research and development, and logistics talents at the source, as well as innovate empowerment solutions. During this period, the industry has accumulated many years of experience and leadership reforms have driven the fundamental changes of the enterprise. Along the way, we have encountered obstacles and accumulated experience.
To achieve the transformation from traditional logistics to design and research logistics, it is necessary to deeply integrate logistics capabilities into the front-end of product development and supply chain design. The core is to improve product manufacturability, distributability, and full lifecycle cost competitiveness through logistics technology innovation, process reconstruction, and intelligent tools. The following is a systematic transformation path and key strategies:
1、 Core Objectives of Transformation
1. Shorten the launch cycle of new products (NPI logistics collaboration)
2. Reduce the overall logistics cost (lock in 80% of the cost during the design phase)
3. Enhance supply chain resilience (risk resistant structural design)
4. Achieve green, sustainable, and low-cost (low-carbon logistics embedded in product design)
2、 Key areas of transformation and implementation strategies and methods
1. Front end intervention: Logistics participates in product development and design:
-Modular design: Promote product modularity (such as upgrading energy storage cabinet capacity technology from 5MW per cabinet to 10MW per cabinet), reducing transportation volume by 30% and construction site area by 10%
-Packaging integration: Collaborative design of product structure and packaging (such as distribution boxes, on-site assembly of materials - auxiliary materials are packaged according to rules to reduce product area, and assembled at the end of the line on-site, directly reducing logistics costs by 20%)
-Logistics friendliness:
-Disable irregular parts (reduce handling difficulty)
-Key components are detachable (for easy storage of spare parts)
-Intelligent tool application:
-Logistics simulation software (FlexSim/AnyLogic) rehearses the storage and transportation bottlenecks of new products (maximum road traffic conditions and government traffic permits)
-Cost estimation model: real-time evaluation of the impact of design changes on total logistics costs
2. Research and development of intelligent logistics technology
-Key technical directions:
|Technical field: | R&D focus+| Application cases
|Intelligent packaging: | Self sensing temperature and humidity materials/recyclable structure |+Full process monitoring of fresh medicine packaging|
|Digital twin logistics: | Full supply chain dynamic mirroring system+| Automotive OEM parts incoming simulation|
|Unmanned solution | AGV cluster scheduling algorithm+| Huawei factory material automatic cross floor distribution|
|Low carbon logistics technology | Carbon footprint calculation engine for transportation routes+| IKEA sea freight route optimization reduces carbon emissions by 15%|
-Patent layout: Focus on hardware innovation such as logistics automation devices and packaging structures
3. Design of a new logistics network architecture
-Distributed Manufacturing Logistics Network:
A [Core Factory] -->| Pre assembled Modules | B [Regional Micro Factory]
B -->| On demand processing | C [City distribution center]
C -->| 3 hours delivery | D [end customer]
(Case: Siemens Medical CT Equipment Regional Micro Factory Model, Reducing Logistics Costs by 40%)
Resilient Network Design:
-Multi level inventory intelligent configuration: using AI to predict and set strategic/buffer/emergency inventory levels
-Alternative routing plan: alternative transportation corridors under geopolitical risks (such as China Europe freight trains replacing sea freight)
2、 Organizational Capability Restructuring
1. Establishment of R&D team:
-Establish a front-end logistics R&D engineer position (requiring mechanical design and operations research capabilities)
-Create a Logistics DFL Committee (integrating R&D/Procurement/Logistics departments)
2. Process change phase:
-Mandatory logistics signing nodes embedded in IPD process (integrated product development)
-New material introduction logistics approval authority (evaluating the feasibility of warehousing and transportation)
3. Development of partner ecosystem * supply chain consortium:
-Collaborate with universities to develop logistics automation technology (such as MIT Logistics Laboratory)
-Incubate special equipment suppliers (such as customized lifting equipment development enterprises)
3、 Industry benchmark practice
For example, Tesla's integrated die-casting technology reduces 70% of body welding points → logistics process:
✔ Cancel transportation of components
✔ Reduce storage area by 80%
✔ Vehicle transportation density increased by 22%
-Dell Server Logistics Design:
-Pre installation of rack rails → saving customers deployment time
-Shared container solution → Shipping utilization rate reaches 92%
4、 Key points of risk control
1. Technical risks:
-Inaccurate logistics simulation model → Dual verification using digital twin and physical testing
2. Organizational risk:
-R&D department resists → Establish logistics cost saving sharing mechanism
3. Investment risk:
-Focus on "quick win scenarios" (such as packaging optimization ROI cycle<6 months)
6、 Performance evaluation system
|Dimension | Key Indicator | Target Value|
|Timeliness |+Logistics preparation cycle for new product launch+| Shorten by 50%+
|Cost+| Unit product full chain logistics cost+| Reduce by 25%+
|Sustainability+| Product carbon footprint (logistics process)+| Compliance with ISO 14067
|Customer value+| Terminal delivery satisfaction (installation convenience)+| NPS ≥ 80
The essence of transformation is to transform logistics from a "cost center" to a "product competitiveness engine". The key to success lies in:
> 1. Pre intervention design: Complete logistics solution design before the birth of the first product prototype
> 2. Intelligent technology penetration: replacing empirical decision-making with automation/algorithms
> 3. Ecological integration supply chain: Logistics suppliers deeply participate in R&D iteration
>The first to break through will receive a strategic window of 2-3 years to restructure industry cost benchmarks and delivery standards.
