Green torture China logistics
"In the near future," carbon footprint "management will become a major event related to the development of enterprises." Huang, chief engineer of COSCO Network Logistics Information Technology Co., Ltd. said with emotion. According to Huang, the so-called "carbon footprint" refers to the "carbon consumption" of individuals or enterprises; "Carbon" refers to natural resources composed of carbon such as oil, coal and wood. Carbon is consumed more, and carbon dioxide, the chief culprit of global warming, is also produced more. The supply chain of manufacturing enterprises generally includes procurement, production, storage and transportation, in which storage and transportation will produce a lot of carbon dioxide.
"As a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, our transportation and logistics industries must be responsible for the carbon they emit during transportation. Even in the near future, if enterprises cannot manage carbon emissions well, it will not only be difficult to reduce transportation costs, but also enterprises will have to pay for their own carbon emissions. " Huang said:
In fact, according to the Kyoto Protocol, in the first commitment period from 2008 to 20 12, industrialized countries must reduce their total carbon dioxide emissions by 5.2% on the basis of their total emissions of 1990. In other words, developing countries do not undertake emission reduction obligations during this period, and can sell their emission reductions to developed countries in exchange for funds and technology, and then use them for domestic environmental protection. This is the essence of clean development mechanism (CDM) designed by Kyoto Protocol.
"The only choice for China's logistics industry is to manage its carbon footprint reasonably. Managing the carbon footprint is not a simple matter. " Huang explained that this includes the location of each storage center, the amount of storage, the energy needed, the transportation mileage, the arrangement of transportation routes, the cost and amount of diesel or gasoline, and whether to reduce carbon emissions by increasing vehicle transportation.
In Huang's view, it is difficult to achieve refined carbon footprint management in the current information state of China logistics industry, which is "big in the middle and small at both ends". The middle information processing ability is already very strong. For example, COSCO Logistics has a very complete integrated logistics information system, including order, warehouse and distribution management system, but it has never made an "intelligent" article on these data to reduce costs. "Green supply chain optimization" is such an attempt. "Small at both ends" means that the on-site processing capacity is relatively poor. In this case, "emission reduction" has become a huge challenge for the logistics industry in China.
Erase the "carbon footprint"
The "carbon footprint" is not only related to Zhongyuan Logistics itself, but also related to the future of customers, including the home appliance industry-maybe one day, if your "carbon footprint" emissions are not up to standard, the export road will be closed forever.
It is reported that COSCO Logistics applied for the technological innovation project of the National Development and Reform Commission at the end of 2006 to improve the informatization application level of China logistics, and was officially approved by the National Development and Reform Commission to set up a new logistics technology laboratory in 2007. The first cooperation project of this laboratory is with IBM China Research Institute, including green supply chain project and supply chain optimization.
"At present, the green supply chain optimization project has achieved certain results, and its promotion will play a positive role in the carbon emission management of the logistics industry in China." According to Dr. Ding Hongwei from IBM China Research Institute who participated in the project, the supply chain will first involve product design, procurement activities, production-related activities, warehousing and distribution activities connecting all activities and supply chain links.
"We emphasize the quantitative analysis scheme, one is qualitative and the other is quantitative. Qualitative consideration of enterprise strategy, including the whole market trend, logistics operation strategy and competitors; Quantitative analysis will consider the objective data of many customers, including logistics nodes, geographical location, equipment transportation costs, technical parameters related to transportation capacity, historical data, etc. " Ding Hongwei said.
In IBM's view, through IBM's massive data processing and intelligent analysis based on the network, COSCO Logistics can optimize the transportation path more clearly through global management. "Our past system focused on data, not intelligence, which is very different from foreign countries. What we have to do now is to change two small problems and focus on the knowledge summarized by basic data, thus guiding practical work. " Huang said: