Changes in the next 10 years 10 freight, are you ready?

REVIEW: Maybe you are entering the freight forwarding industry curious; maybe you practitioners forwarding lifetime, fame a double harvest.
Maybe you are entering the freight, the industry is full of curiosity; maybe you practitioners forwarding lifetime, fame a double harvest. But have you ever stop and think over the future of the freight forwarding industry, especially in today's world is changing faster and faster, the ability to see the change in the next 10 years will occur forwarding, a test of the wisdom of business decision makers.

1. Eat End Spread era
In the foreign trade situation is good, shipping scarcity of the industrial era, freight can be described as the difference eating earn pours. But in recent years the situation has changed, the economic slowdown, labor, land prices continue to rise, labor-intensive industries are being transferred to the neighboring countries so that import and export trade is facing downward pressure. The shipping industry's excess production capacity is an indisputable fact that the explosive growth of the number of ships so dropping lower and lower tariffs, shipping enterprises in Fukui in torment. When tariffs are inherently difficult to be sold out when forwarding to eat the difference of profit model has no way out but to sell at cost price, profit by providing value-added services is inevitable. This is also the special economic principles of the Internet era, the wool in pigs, the upper surface freight forwarder in sales, but in fact is a value-added service charges.

2. The corporate structure and business chain network
Freight traditional corporate structure and business chains are usually hierarchical, the information layer by layer to deliver a single-threaded. With the development of social networks, continue to strengthen the relationship between individuals, corporate structure and business is gradually fission chain mesh type. Individuals are not representative of the network structure between the upstream and downstream on the lower level or relationship, but a parallel relationship, which means that each individual is important, but not so important. In this network, any information that an individual can be sent instantly synchronized to all individuals, each individual instant feedback also synchronized to the entire network. Then the entire freight forwarding industry is entirely Internet-based, national marketing, everyone is media, business management flat, inter-firm interaction become the norm, marketing and services exist.

3. Forced to trade electricity supplier freight logistics platform
In the industrial age scale and intelligent production before, each product manufacturing have to rely on the hands complete, low efficiency and high costs to enable enterprises to always face danger. Today automation, intelligent robots all walks of life, except freight forwarding operations and documents are still stuck at the level of 20 years ago, with a large labor force to solve problems. As people's living electricity supplier dependence deepening electricity supplier logistics have become increasingly demanding, especially the younger generation grew up accustomed to online shopping, the next 10 years is in the world after 00, not suited to their rules of the game It will be overturned. All situations are urgent request for information in real time, accurate flow of freight ecosystem, which requires forwarding links must be established on the downstream platform, the team, peers, factory, port all information synchronization via platform.

4. The financial involvement of the traditional account of the advantages of desalination
With Internet convergence and depth freight forwarding, freight forwarding business operations, the flow of goods, documents circulation, etc. are highly visual, controllable, conventional mortgage finance fixed assets depend on credit began to close contact with the Internet freight transfusion, freight forwarding Every vote revitalize business are converted into cash flows. And then no longer be called the account of freight canvassing trump card, the owner account of the requirements necessary to receive payment because upstream, when the financial institutions involved in the supply chain to get through the capital flow, there is no account of the existence of.

5. Information transparency accelerate customer flow
As the market economy matures, the original extensive freight forwarding industry business model began to intensive, more sensitive to price differences between customers and services. Freight advantages of resources from the ship company, so that the advantages of freight forwarding in an unstable state. Coupled with the speed of market information transparency, so that the selectivity of customers more and more customers to further expediting the movement. Who is close to the flow inlet, who grasp the customer flow rule, grasps the initiative, the chance to survive.

6. freight electricity suppliers have sprung up everywher
Retail electricity business for nearly 10 years to achieve 8% market share, online shoppers reach 300 million people. This is at the lower PC and Internet penetration growth rate of the environment, and now the electricity supplier of forwarding all the conditions are ripe. Today, bandwidth and computer hardware and software not only widely available and low purchase cost, PC + smart phone is the standard working life of young people, young people like to cool regardless of what games are played, 10 years forwarding occupy 10% of the electricity suppliers market share easily. Freight forwarding must change the existing business model, access to the Internet, and multi-channel multi-terminal fusion to adapt to future trends.

7. The electronic business platform quarter of the world
Future updates will appear four categories freight ecological platform: one controlled by the foreign trade enterprises initiated eco-end platform, they have a wealth of resources trade orders, controls the source of logistics, a typical example of Ali eshipping, Hong Kong Li & Fung. Second, a large freight forwarding companies initiated by the old platform, they have warehouses, fleet, customs brokers, shipping, freight forwarding and network resources. Typical examples are electricity provider Sinotrans, the generation electricity supplier, COSCO unbounded. Third, co-sponsored by the Port Authority of the platform, they have wharf, river, shipping, freight forwarding resources, typical examples of electronic business platform for the Shanghai Port Authority. Fourth, co-sponsored by the small and medium sized freight forwarding platform, they have a very broken route shipping company prices, accommodation, service resources, a typical example of Wanlian booking platform.

8. business data to create value
Owing to the high cost of investment in information technology, freight forwarding companies mostly remain in the traditional mode of operation, there is no established system of business information platform to enable business information scattered around, freight forwarding business owners can only make decisions based on impression. But in the future, after the platform operations, including upstream and downstream customer's business dealings and the company's internal processes are standardized to the platform, then there appears to doubt every source of the problem can be traced back, through integrated data each side can accurately determine the client dynamically internal problems of the company and so on. As long as you are good at mining the data in the hidden secrets will make you an eye-opener.

9. significantly enhance the quality of personnel
Currently a problem common freight operations staff positions are scarce, because the operating business volume, work pressure, often work overtime also easy to go wrong, the old and the new staff is difficult to retain staff reluctant to get involved. But not in five years, the situation will be completely changed, with the various types of on-line electronic business platform, O2O platform, a variety of intelligent terminals, the popularity of social media, freight forwarding operations undertaken work will be completed to the machines, Automatic recognition, automatic reminders, automatic check, a key transceiver are alone, freight forwarding operation is no longer frayed nerves. In addition, less than 10 years 40% of young people will have a university degree, while the electricity supplier Poor pressure brought about by forcing employees to enhance the overall quality of freight forwarding, freight forwarding operation will turn to high-quality customer service.

10. Mergers alternative alliance
As against larger competitors, small and medium sized freight forwarding start hold together for warmth, there all kinds of alliances and associations. But this Baotuan way only formal unity, in the face of significant benefit easily split. The real Baotuan must be kept in the interests of unity of purpose, such as the exchange of shares, a joint venture between unio companies, a sign with the same platform and the same customer-oriented. Then the rise of a large number of freight forwarding companies will disappear, there is a group to be eliminated.
Freight is a complex industry, but in front of the trend, especially with the new things in front of vitality, everything is possible lightning subverted. How to deal with the risk of the future may face? How to take advantage of favorable conditions for the future of beach-goers? Each person is worth pondering freight.