Steel logistics should also embrace the Internet

2013 is a year full of twists and turns in China's steel logistics field, and the steel service industry has experienced deep difficulties: the steel industry chain is relatively serious overcapacity, the middle and downstream requirements are shrinking, and a large number of steel logistics companies have gone bankrupt... This kind of development trend is still continuing, and the steel logistics field in 2014 is not easy to quiet after all.

"Steel trading companies and the logistics industry, which are between steel mills and middle and downstream customers, are also facing many problems, such as delayed order information, debt arrears, low profits and tight assets." At the China Iron and Steel Logistics Cooperation Community Forum and Nishimoto Shinkansen Member Conference held on January 11, He Liming, the growth of the domestic logistics and Purchase Committee, bluntly stated the dilemma encountered by steel logistics companies.

At the conference, Dong Baoqing, deputy director of the information management promotion Department of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said the opportunity in danger: "The plight of China's steel traders is indeed very bad, but for the development of mobile e-commerce in the steel industry and the promotion of steel bag commodity circulation, it is very good."

In Dong Baoqing's view, under the situation of overproduction and oversupply in the steel industry, the multi-level distributor management system generated in the past has encountered a split situation. In the case of the rapid development of information technology and Internet technology, "satchel economic development is coming", the steel freight logistics trade management system will inevitably accelerate the transformation and development.

The consensus generated by the industry today is that today's steel service industry in China has entered a new period of adjustment. How to innovate the way of steel logistics trading and how to speed up the chain has become a problem that has been discussed.

According to Dong Baoqing revealed that the steel industry supports the inevitable trend of Internet technology, and the steel e-commerce tracked by the competent authorities has reached more than 30 at this stage, and this emerging force will change the natural environment for the development of the steel industry from various aspects such as trading methods, freight logistics and financial industry.

In particular, steel logistics, as a key component of steel commodity circulation, although it is still in the early stage of development, its great development potential cannot be ignored. In our country, steel logistics should clearly put forward the key support points for the transformation and development of the steel industry chain, and also enter the key development strategy transformation opportunity.

CAI Jin, vice chairman of the Domestic logistics and Purchase Committee, believes that using the service platform technology of mobile e-commerce to develop the platform economy of steel is a more long-term change in the method of commodity circulation. "The economic development of commodity spot platform must be systematic, and it is fundamentally related to the shape of commodity spot freight logistics." The freight logistics shape of steel is not the same as the freight logistics shape of coal and concrete, so you must develop the freight logistics economic development of the aspect ratio, you must systematically develop the platform economy."