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The logistics industry continues to be active

Release time: 2018-07-05

According to data released by China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, China’s logistics industry sentiment index was 54.9% in June this year, down 1.2 percentage points from the previous month; China’s warehouse index was 48.7%, down 1.8 percentage points from the previous month; China Highway Logistics The price index was 98.5 points, down 0.74% from the previous month.

“In June, the logistics industry sentiment index fell slightly, but it still operated at a high level in the boom, reflecting that the current logistics operation continues to be active.” Any of the deputy directors of the China Logistics Information Center said that the products, wood, machinery manufacturing, etc. continue. Maintain growth; driven by the mid-year promotion activities of e-commerce companies, the logistics demand for products related to people's livelihood such as food, home appliances, cosmetics, and daily necessities increased, and express delivery and other industries continued to grow.

According to relevant persons from the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, from the various indicators released in June, the data have declined, but they are still in the boom zone. However, the problems of urgently improving the infrastructure of logistics operations are still relatively obvious.

In June, the new order index was 52.8%, down 1.7 percentage points from the previous month, but remained at a relatively high level; the equipment utilization index fell 4.2 percentage points from the previous month and remained in the boom zone, showing logistics-related business activities. Still active.

In June, the logistics service price index was 49.5%, which was the same as last month and still below the 50% glory line, indicating that the overall service price of logistics enterprises is still low. At the same time, the index of completion of fixed assets investment has declined, reflecting the continued improvement in infrastructure conditions for logistics operations. In addition, from the later trend, the business activity expectation index and the new order index were 58.1% and 52.8%, respectively, down 2.7 percentage points and 1.7 percentage points respectively from the previous month, indicating that the growth momentum of logistics activities has slowed down.

In addition, China Logistics and Purchasing Federation and Jingdong Group recently released a joint survey of China's e-commerce logistics operation index for June 2018, which was 112.6 points, down 1.6 points from the previous month. From the nine sub-indices, the inventory turnover index, the actual load rate index, the personnel index and the cost index all rebounded from last month. The total business volume index, rural business volume index, logistics time efficiency index, compliance rate index and satisfaction index ratio It fell back last month.

Inventory turnover efficiency and transportation efficiency increase. In June, the inventory turnover index was 104.5 points, up 8.3 points from the previous month. The actual load rate index was 108 points, up 2 points from the previous month, indicating that the warehouse turnover and transportation links remained efficient during the peak season promotion period.

The logistics timeliness and performance level were slightly adjusted. In June, the compliance rate index was 102 points, down 3.5 points from the previous month; the logistics time-effect index was 112 points, down 3.4 points from the previous month. The customer satisfaction index was 99 points, down 1.6 points from the previous month.

According to Wang Wei, director of the Market Economy Research Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council, the e-commerce promotion and holiday effects were more significant in June, and the offline and physical retail interactions were significantly enhanced. JD.com and Ali will take the network layout from the online category to the offline. Brands and business districts are extended, and “multi-point” and other cities have built omni-channel shopping scenarios to achieve accurate marketing within the distribution radius. From the same period of last year, the e-commerce logistics business volume maintained a high growth rate of more than 30% in June. The growth rate of e-commerce business volume in rural areas also reached nearly 30%, and the year-on-year decline in growth rate was mainly affected by the high base of last year. Thanks to the large-scale application of smart logistics technology such as intelligent warehousing, sorting and path planning in big data forecasting, the efficiency of inventory storage and transportation in June has further improved.