This article was originally created by the public account “Suning Wealth Information”. The authors are Xue Hongyan, Assistant Dean of Suning Financial Research Institute, Fu Yifu, and Huang Dazhi.
At this moment, the focus of attention of the people throughout the country is on the new pneumonia epidemic. There are too many related discussions, and we want to talk about it from another angle in this article.
Across the long history of human development, the plague has been lingering like a shadow, and its impact on human society has been profound—while bringing challenges, it can also promote people’s self-examination and social Reflection, thus triggering a series of changes, can not only promote economic and social development and progress, but also change the direction of civilization.
The current epidemic of new coronaviruses. As a major public event, the epidemic itself has affected a series of adjustments in social operating models and changes in people’s behavior patterns. What opportunities and changes will these changes bring to the business world?
Unmanned distribution welcomes development opportunities
As we all know, in the face of an epidemic, quarantine is the most effective means of prevention and control, and it has also become an important variable that drives business model changes.
Taking SARS in 2003 as an example, the isolation led to a sharp decline across the line, and the tourism, aviation, catering, and cultural and entertainment industries were all negatively affected, but business opportunities emerged in the pharmaceutical, food, textile, and telecommunications industries. In addition, the rise of e-commerce has opened a new era. In the following ten years, it will continue to have a profound impact on China’s business society. While greatly changing consumer lifestyles, it has also indirectly driven third-party payment, The growth of modern logistics and even group buying, takeaway and other industries.
History is always surprisingly similar. In the face of new coronaviruses, isolation is still the preferred option. In the face of the epidemic, even during the Spring Festival holiday, all kinds of activities such as visiting relatives and friends, doing business, shopping, etc. have all pressed the “pause button”.
Isolated at home, the demand for takeaway and e-commerce has increased significantly. But unlike SARS in 2003, into 2020, takeaway and e-commerce are already a mature business model. The significance of isolation is not to cultivate the habit of ordering online by users, but to hope to promote the change of offline distribution model.
Yes, it’s unmanned delivery.
Unmanned delivery, as the name implies, no needFor human distribution, the carriers are mostly drones, unmanned vehicles, and robots. In fact, this is not new. As early as 2013, Amazon proposed a drone delivery plan, and the Prime Air delivery drone that it developed three years later delivered the first order.
Looking at the world, in addition to Prime Air, representatives in the field of unmanned delivery include HorseFly drones developed by American electric truck manufacturer Workhorse, Starship delivery robots launched by British Starship Technologies, and Robby robots by Robby Technologies and many more.
In China, with the intensification of distribution demand, the improvement of user experience and labor costs, and the difficulty of meeting terminal distribution requirements in some remote areas and special environments, the upgrade of traditional logistics is the general trend; and artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things The rapid development of emerging technologies, such as big data and big data, has also provided technical guarantees for the industry’s change. So many companies represented by giants such as Suning and Meituan have begun to focus on the emerging field of unmanned distribution.
Compared with traditional logistics distribution, in addition to avoiding direct contact between people during the epidemic, unmanned distribution has at least the following two advantages:
First, the timeliness of the distribution business is enhanced, and it will not be affected by constraints such as insufficient transport vehicles and traffic congestion, and it can even break through the restrictions of terrain and landforms. Crossing mountains and ridges and crossing rivers for distribution will not only expand services. The space scope greatly improves the freedom of transportation, and can also significantly improve efficiency and reduce labor costs;
Second, improving the user experience, which is not only reflected in the surprises of ordinary users for dark technology, but also for those rural and remote areas with underdeveloped logistics infrastructure, unmanned delivery can effectively solve the “last mile” The end demand allows residents there to share the thrill of home delivery.
In actual operation, unmanned distribution is still in the exploratory stage. There are still many problems with its security and application scope, and the relevant laws and regulations are still not complete enough, so it has not yet formed a scale effect. However, the uncertain current epidemic may provide an excellent opportunity for the large-scale emergence of unmanned distribution. Do n’t be surprised if there will be more delivery drones flying in the sky and more delivery robots running on the ground in the near future.
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