Extremely cautious, this is many people’s evaluation of Yu Guochao, general manager of Zhejiang Tianchang Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. He will take the trouble to talk to subordinates for the new team to select candidates, and will also dig for hours for the details of “natural year” or “accounting year” in the contract. But three years ago, in the face of his future, he made a “very careless” decision-to quit his “iron rice bowl” in the local transportation department and go into business.
“After working for more than 20 years, it is always difficult for me to give up my entrepreneurial dream.” Memories of three years ago came to mind, and Yu Guochao’s eyes flashed. At that time, Tianneng Group, a leading enterprise in the domestic new energy power battery industry, was preparing to lay out the logistics sector, and Yu Guochao, who has rich experience in transportation and management, entered the field of vision. The two parties hit it off, aiming at the field of supply chain integration services, and established Zhejiang Tianchang Supply Chain Management Co., Ltd. Since then, Yu Guochao has a new identity-“supply chain manager”.
Do logistics and transportation
“Didi taxi”
Yu Guochao prefers the conference table in the office to the desk. Spread out the documents, make tea, and customers or colleagues sit around the table, hold regular meetings, discuss contracts and business, which is simple and efficient.
The 14th Five-Year Plan and Frontier Essays … There are several books and magazines on the conference table, which Yu Guochao will read whenever he has time, and there are dense notes inside. Concerned about current affairs is a habit he has developed for many years. Facing the brand-new field of supply chain, Yu Guochao also likes to start with policies and seize opportunities. At the end of 2017, the State Council issued “Guiding Opinions on Actively Promoting Innovation and Application of Supply Chain”, which indicated the development goal and direction of supply chain at the national level.
Seeing the broad prospects of supply chain industry development, Yu Guochao is eager to try, and taking the opportunity of establishing a national pilot enterprise for supply chain innovation and application, he began to lay out the blueprint of Tianchang supply chain. Among them, building an information platform for Tianchang Zhiyun is his first step.
For many truck drivers, Tianchang Zhiyun is a familiar work APP. As a trading sharing platform of logistics capacity, Tianchang Zhiyun can realize online order distribution of logistics carriers, transport fleets and truck drivers, and complete the whole business process from shipping, transportation, receipt, settlement to service evaluation.
“It’s like the’ drip taxi’ of logistics and transportation.” In the conference room, Yu Guochao showed reporters the information platform of Tianchang Zhiyun. “The total number of vehicles is 30,893, the total number of drivers is 34,117, and the number of national routes is 300,462 …” The constantly beating data on the big screen shows the huge transportation capacity and massive resources of Tianchang Zhiyun.
A salivating explanation
Mobilize employees’ passion
Talking about the original intention of creating Tianchang Zhiyun, Yu Guochao said with a smile that at first it was only to solve the “internal contradiction” of Tianneng battery logistics and transportation. In March 2018, due to the increase in lead storage battery orders after the year, the delivery and transportation links were awarded..When the connection was not timely, the warehouse in Puyang, Henan Province of Tianneng Group suddenly “exploded” and a large number of goods were stranded in the warehouse. After receiving the news, Yu Guochao and his colleagues rushed to the scene overnight for manual dispatch. Check the goods, check the invoice, coordinate the transport fleet … After several days of fighting, Yu Guochao was exhausted. He realized that it is extremely urgent to build a digital visualization full-process capacity management platform.
Just do it. Yu Guochao, with 16 colleagues, began to practice his dream in the newly established Tianchang Supply Chain Company. In the early days of starting a business, there were few people and heavy tasks. It’s late at night, but the meeting room is still brightly lit. The members discussed enthusiastically and carefully conceived, sorted out the logistics and distribution links such as distribution, transmission, sorting, packaging and delivery, and integrated and simplified the process, and gradually built the system framework of the platform. Before you know it, it will be open until the early morning of the next day, but everyone has a heated discussion. “It may be because of Mr. Yu’s spitting explanation that everyone’s passion has been mobilized.” Yao Xuemei, manager of warehousing and logistics department, said with a smile.
To create an information platform, technicians are indispensable. However, IT is not easy to recruit IT talents in Changxing. “The recruitment notice has been hung up for five months, and there is no applicant!” Fortunately, Yu Guochao was not discouraged. He quickly adjusted his direction, aimed at Changxing IT technical talents working in big cities, introduced IT teams into Changxing through incremental profit sharing and option incentives, and set up a technical research institute in Hangzhou to attract IT R&D talents to join.
Based on the existing battery industry chain of Tianneng Group, “Tianchang Zhiyun” integrates rich offline infrastructure resources and stable consignor resources, and realizes standardized, intelligent and visual management of battery logistics and transportation. Since the platform was launched at the end of 2018, it has saved Tianneng Group an average of 30 million yuan in transportation costs every year.
After two years of development, Tianchang Zhiyun has expanded its service target from its parent company Tianneng Group to other manufacturing enterprises. At present, the platform has 30,000 registered freight cars, and has formed more than 9,000 logistics lines, ten hub-level transfer stations, more than 3,000 distribution warehouses, more than 300,000 terminal distribution outlets and 1..A logistics trunk network with a mileage of more than 500 million kilometers. With the continuous gathering of business flow, logistics, capital flow and information flow on the platform, Yu Guochao saw new business opportunities.
Use supply chain
Draw a circle for the industrial chain
Following Yu Guochao’s footsteps, the reporter came to Invest 2..300 million yuan, Tianchang think tank industrial park just put into use in May this year. In the park, which covers an area of nearly 100 mu, two rows of brand-new spacious three-dimensional warehouses have sprung up, and trucks loaded with goods slowly enter. The forklift master skillfully operates the equipment for operation, “one hook, one pick, one retreat”, and the goods on the trucks are unloaded in an orderly manner and transported to the warehouse.
On the big data display screen of Tianchang Think Tank Industrial Park, information such as the total inventory of goods, inflow and outflow, transaction amount and so on can be seen at a glance, and the internal monitoring screen of the warehouse can also be seen in real time. It is not surprising that logistics companies build warehouses, but such a large-scale construction, in addition to completing the logistics warehousing sector, Yu Guochao also has another purpose.
“Changxing is located at the junction of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui provinces. The transportation systems such as national highways, expressways, railways and waterways extend in all directions, and at the same time it has a good textile and powder industry foundation. Building a think tank here as a front warehouse is conducive to opening up two large industrial chains of cotton yarn and PVC in Xinjiang. ” After that, Yu Guochao stretched out his finger and drew a circle in the air, telling the essence of the supply chain-making the coordination of organizations more efficient and the matching between supply and demand more accurate.
“Draw a smooth and tight circle for the industrial chain.” This is also the ambition of Tianchang think tank. By collecting raw materials, optimizing logistics, distributing products and warehousing finance, Tianchang think tank has built a smooth and tight industrial chain ecosystem by reducing costs at the production end, building channels at the sales end and adding value at the service end.
Effectively stabilizing the supply chain of industrial chain is the basis of forming a new development pattern of “double cycle”. Relying on the advantages of location, transportation and industrial clusters in the Yangtze River Delta, Tianchang think tank is constantly extending to the upstream and downstream ends of the industrial chain around the procurement and processing links of the industrial chain, and cutting into the industrial chain links through supply chain services, fully empowering core enterprises and upstream and downstream and peripheral supporting service enterprises, reshaping the value chain, and gradually building a safe, efficient and value-added industrial Internet ecosystem. At present, Tianchang think tank has served nearly 2,000 large-scale manufacturing enterprises and circulation enterprises. Since the beginning of this year, it has traded 2.63 million orders and transported 24.15 million tons of goods, with a cumulative transaction volume of 68..400 million yuan.
“In 2020, our transaction volume is expected to exceed 10 billion yuan, and we will strive to build a 100 billion-level industrial supply chain integrated service platform in three to five years.” Facing the future, Yu Guochao is full of ambition.
Answer sheet speech
Yu Guochao: Cut into the industrial chain through supply chain services, fully empower core enterprises and upstream, downstream and peripheral supporting service enterprises, reshape the value chain, and gradually build a safe, efficient and value-added industrial Internet ecosystem.
(Source: Zhejiang Daily)