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Global Robotics Services(GRS) opens the RaaS era of logistics automation

Recently, China Logistics and Purchasing magazine interviewed Hongming Chen, Senior Vice President of GLP China and CEO of Global Robotics Services(GRS), to introduce how to launch an integrated solution of intelligent warehousing and sorting RaaS based on the industry's pain points and demand, to reduce the investment risk of automation assets for customers, improve efficiency in all aspects, and help to improve the automation penetration rate of the logistics industry.To get more news about Global Robotics Services, you can visit glprobotics.com official website.

According to incomplete statistics, the automation penetration rate of the domestic logistics industry is less than 10%. Compared with the manufacturing industry, the automation penetration rate of the domestic logistics industry is low. " Hongming Chen , senior vice president of GLP China and CEO of Global Robotics Services, said in an interview with China Logistics and Purchasing magazine that the biggest obstacle lies in the contradiction between the uncertainty of the logistics industry itself and the long-term asset investment in automation.

Hongming Chen further said that 696 million parcels on the "double 11" day in 2021 were more than twice the average daily business volume in the first 10 months. At the same time, looking at the field of third-party logistics, the contract duration has been shortened from an average of 3-4 years to 1-2 years in recent years, which increases the risk of enterprises purchasing asset-heavy automation equipment.

Based on this pain point, GLP innovated its automation asset business model, created an integrated solution of intelligent warehousing and sorting RaaS (Robotics as a Service), and found a correct "open way" to improve the automation penetration of the logistics industry.
1、Flexible deployment to reduce the risk of automation asset investment.

In recent years, intelligent warehousing robot has become the mainstream development trend of intelligent logistics because of its outstanding advantages of flexible automation and efficient productivity.

In Hongming Chen's view, the disappearance of demographic dividend and the rise of labor costs are the basic premise of the trend of the logistics industry from labor-intensive to technology-intensive. On this basis, the logistics industry is also faced with some new features in the process of intelligent transformation, such as the shortening of the contract period of three-party logistics, live e-commerce and other new business type needs logistics enterprises to have small batch, high-frequency, high-intensity logistics service capabilities, which further increases the uncertainty of the logistics industry.
Generally speaking, in RaaS mode, customers hire robots just like employees, lease instead of purchase, and pay for the number of units processed or orders. Compared with direct purchase, enterprises can easily benefit from warehousing robot technology, directly using intelligent and efficient storage, sorting, sorting, packaging and other services.

"one of the characteristics of the logistics industry is that the off-peak season is very obvious. Take 'double 11' as an example, the business volume of some enterprises has even reached 5-10 times the average daily business volume. " Hongming Chen told China Logistics and Purchasing magazine, "the RaaS model solves the pain points of automation investment, such as high payment costs, high trial and error costs, high maintenance costs and high exit costs, and avoids holding heavy assets such as automation equipment for a long time, while still flexibly and quickly responding to market demand and easily dealing with short-term peak challenges."

Hongming Chen further said that customers can increase or decrease the demand for robots according to the peaks and troughs of orders, flexibly adjust the warehousing and sorting capacity of operations, and greatly reduce the intensity of customer capital investment. "take a brand that ranked among the top three in Tmall's' double 11 'sales in 2021 as an example, if you purchase automation equipment according to the peak volume of business, you need to invest 3,000-50 million yuan at one time; if you invest 10 million yuan according to the average daily business volume, you need to invest 10 million yuan."
2、To create industry solutions to improve efficiency in all aspects.

Not only that, from the customer's point of view, the advantage of the integrated storage and sorting RaaS solution not only lies in the reduction of investment intensity, but also greatly improves the customer's human efficiency, efficiency and efficiency. 　　In terms of human efficiency, RaaS can not only avoid the risk of delayed delivery caused by insufficient production capacity, but also reduce the unnecessary costs caused by over-recruitment. In 2021, the aforementioned brand will employ only 900 workers in warehousing, down more than 75 per cent from 4000 in 2020.
3、Based on their own advantages, continue to polish products.

As a matter of fact, intelligent warehousing products are not uncommon in the domestic market. Based on this, GRS has created an automated assets business model and launched a warehousing and sorting RaaS solution that has been recognized by customers in a short period of time, mainly for the following reasons:

First, GLP's logistics infrastructure resources and customer resources accelerate the layout and promotion of GRS's warehouse sorting RaaS solution in GLP's ecological scene. Moreover, RaaS and GLP's logistics and warehousing services can be integrated to provide customers with value-added services, such as the previously mentioned "warehouse + RaaS" integrated solution.

"This is the unique advantage of GRS as a member enterprise of GLP." Hongming Chen stressed, "GRS's RaaS solution is rooted in the logistics infrastructure of more than 47 million square meters of GLP's more than 400 logistics parks in China, as well as the industrial ecology built accordingly. This enables GRS to have a large number of potential customer resources and to optimize the allocation of resources in the ecosystem created by GLP. At the same time, as an automated logistics asset, I believe it can also attract more investors in the future. "