Li Mu met with Senior Brother Liu and several staff members who were responsible for logistics business all afternoon, and the purchase order for the first phase of Taobao Logistics has basically been finalized.
The most important items in the first phase of procurement are vehicles, warehousing, and sorting equipment. Since there is currently no funding for automated sorting equipment, Taobao Logistics currently relies mainly on traditional conveyor belts with manual sorting for the first phase of sorting. Although the efficiency is higher than It is not as advanced as automated equipment, but for the initial stage, it is the most suitable sorting solution.
Since the government has not yet given a clear reply on what kind of policy preferences Taobao Logistics will enjoy in the future, Li Mu decided to temporarily control the capital investment. The vehicle demand plan for the first phase of procurement is: 60 heavy-duty imported tractors. First, it will be matched with 100 domestic medium-sized trucks and 300 Iveco light vans.
At present, the tariffs on imported vehicles from abroad are divided into several levels. The tariff on imported complete passenger vehicles is 25%. Tractors vary greatly according to their tonnage, type and fuel used. That is to say, even if they are of the same tonnage, There are also differences in the tariffs on gasoline and diesel trucks. The tax on gasoline vehicles is the highest, while the tax on diesel vehicles is slightly lower. Taobao Logistics needs to use heavy-duty tractors for point-to-point transportation, which are all high-tonnage diesel tractors. The current tariff is 21%.
The 21% tariff, if you include the purchase tax, has reached the 30% standard as a whole, which is already a very large proportion. For Li Mu, if these two taxes can be solved, Taobao Logistics will be more effective in the import of heavy vehicles. You can get a big improvement.
Taobao's financial director also told Li Mu and Liu Edong a situation that they had never considered before: if it is for daily vehicle imports, it will also involve a 17% value-added tax. This tax will eventually be added to the vehicle price. If If the government can also waive the 17% value-added tax, the overall tax benefits will be even greater.
Generally speaking, if a government-supported project involves the import of equipment and raw materials, the government will provide certain preferential policies. Tariffs are only one aspect, and import value-added tax is also another aspect.
The value-added tax is charged to the enterprise that declares the customs. If Taobao Logistics orders directly from overseas enterprises, then when the vehicle arrives at the customs, Taobao Logistics needs to pay the 17% purchase tax to the customs at the time of customs declaration. If it can only go through domestic dealers, The value-added tax will have to be paid by the dealer and added to the purchase price. In the end, Taobao Logistics will definitely bear it.
However, the government has always had policies to encourage and subsidy enterprises with far-reaching significance, and there is no precedent in terms of value-added tax. Most of the value-added tax preferential policies adopt the method of collecting first and then withdrawing. In other words, Taobao Logistics will still follow the customs declaration procedures as usual. 17% of the value-added tax is paid, but the money will be immediately refunded to Taobao Logistics' corporate account after customs clearance.
Li Mu knew that he would never be able to ask his boss to ask for the VAT exemption, so he could only rely on his boss's wishes regarding the VAT.
If the leaders really value and encourage the development of Taobao, then they may not mention the value-added tax. They will also think of it. It doesn’t matter if they don’t think of it. The reduction of customs duties and purchase tax is of great significance to Li Mu.
However, Li Mu secretly calculated on his own fingers that if the government really waived the purchase tax, the price of imported trucks would be greatly reduced.
If you want to meet your own requirements for logistics capacity, the number of heavy-duty tractors responsible for long-distance transportation on trunk lines alone must reach at least 300, and may reach 500 or even higher in the long term. If there are sufficient policy incentives, you can save money. The funds are definitely over 100 million.
If this money is saved, the automated sorting equipment can be launched in advance, so Li Mu asked Liu Eodong: "Last time I asked you to send someone to Germany to inspect BEUMAN Machinery. Have you started making arrangements?"
Liu Edong nodded: "A three-person team has been arranged. They just set off a few days ago and have already contacted Berman there. However, the information they fed back seems a bit perfunctory on Berman's side. They don't seem to believe a person. Private express delivery companies in China will have the ability to install automated sorting equipment on a large scale."
Li Mu looked stunned.
"In what age are Germans still wearing such colored glasses?"
Liu Edong smiled awkwardly and said: "It's not that they are wearing colored glasses. They also received our people politely and took our people to visit their equipment demonstration. However, when it comes to the specific details of customization, they are a little uncomfortable. It’s so caring.”
Speaking, Liu Edong added: "Berman mainly thinks that the Chinese market is not yet mature, not to mention that the penetration rate of domestic automatic sorting is indeed very low. At present, in the national express logistics industry, our postal service is the only one that uses it, and in There are only three sets of equipment in the country, and quite a few airports in China have not yet implemented automated luggage sorting, let alone express delivery. BEUMER has basically no customers in China, not even branches."
"Damn it." Li Mu said with some annoyance: "In this way, let them stabilize their emotions first. Even if it is a hot face and a cold butt, they must persist for a while. In addition, from now on, let them live in the best place in Germany. Hotels and renting the highest-end cars must not be driven by yourself. You must hire local drivers in Germany and increase your daily travel expenses. If you invite people from Berman to dine and socialize, you must adopt high standards and spend money first. Make a little impression on the Germans.”
The people at Taobao Logistics were ignored by Berman, probably because they did not make Berman aware of the business opportunities. There may also be Berman's contempt for the Chinese market, but Li Mu didn't care what their mentality was. The first thing he had to do was not to let the people he sent out be ignored in front of the Germans. He had to ensure that even if Berman's people ignored China's market space, they could not ignore the spendthrift attitude of several representatives of Taobao Logistics, and then let them Re-examine the strength of Taobao Logistics.
No company would send a group of people all the way to Germany and spend a lot of travel funds every day just to fool around. Even if they are really trying to fool around, it at least proves that the company has strong financial resources. To put it simply, there are four words: plenty of money!
If Berman can understand this, they will definitely put aside their contempt and truly regard Taobao Logistics as a major customer in the future.
Many plots have become vulgar in life and film and television works. For example, when customers wearing ordinary clothes enter a luxury store, they will always be despised and discriminated against by waiters. In real life, although most waiters will not actively seek out customers, Troublesome, but their eyes are indeed very thief. If there are many customers in the store, they will focus on serving customers who are well-dressed and look rich, thereby actively or passively ignoring those who do not look rich. money customers.
Although Li Mu was quite dissatisfied with Berman's neglect, he also knew in his heart that their approach was generally understandable. Even if he ignored the Chinese market in his heart, he still had basic etiquette and reception, so what he had to do now was to first It makes Berman look at people in the past of Taobao Logistics with admiration, just like well-dressed customers who enter any store, they will be regarded as the most potential customers.
In addition, BEUMER is currently the number one company in international logistics automation solutions. Only by looking to them can we solve all problems at once. We must make them pay attention to Taobao Logistics, and only then will it be possible to provide more solutions for Taobao Logistics in the future. .
BEUMER has not only the automatic sorting system that Li Mu is looking forward to right now, but they also have a very cool solution - a complete solution for automated high-level warehousing.
The automatic sorting system is a solution for express logistics and airline luggage sorting, and the complete solution for automated high-level warehousing is an essential tool for large-scale modern warehousing.
Ordinary warehousing is weak in terms of space utilization, inventory recording, and access efficiency. For the same warehousing area, the inventory volume of automated high-level warehousing can be up to ten or twenty times higher than that of ordinary warehousing, and the operating efficiency is much faster.
Automated high-level warehousing, to put it bluntly, means that the entire warehousing base uses multi-layer shelves tens of meters high. The same floor area greatly increases the storage space. The goods can be fully automated in and out through the automatic sorting system, so that the warehousing turnover efficiency is also improved. A huge improvement. As for the difficulty of high-level operations, it is also easy to solve. Automatic access to high-level warehousing can be achieved through the automated palletizing system. JD.com's "Asia No. 1" warehouse is such a fully automatic high-level warehousing base.
Li Mu and Liu Edong discussed the construction of an automated high-level warehousing base. The cost is indeed very high. From the initial factory building construction, the cost is several times higher than that of an ordinary warehousing base. The price of the entire set of equipment is even higher. People point their fingers.
However, Li Mu always feels that automation must be planned earlier, and solutions to high costs should be found. As long as the automation reform can be carried out one step ahead of competitors, it will not only greatly improve efficiency, but also provide strong competitiveness. If Taobao Logistics can If the strength of "SF Express + JD Logistics" is reached in the next two to three years, the impact of this foundation on the entire industry will be extremely huge. In the future, at least 50% of the express delivery market will fall into the hands of Taobao Logistics.
Liu Edong has a stronger obsession with logistics than Li Mu. This high degree of automation is also his most dreamed solution. Since Li Mu, the big boss, also supports it, the two naturally hit it off, and then formulated a three-year plan for automation. implementation plan for each stage.
The first stage: first acquire land in the cities where major logistics distribution bases are located, and the land area must cover the needs of the first and second phases of the project;
In the first phase, there is no rush to build high-level warehouses, but only large-scale ordinary warehouses, and the self-built logistics sorting center and warehousing center are all packed together. The sorting center and warehousing center are semi-automated, that is, half manpower and half machinery;
When the national logistics market continues to improve, Taobao Logistics' business and Taobao's self-operated B2C business improve, and the first phase's transportation capacity is about to be fully loaded, the second phase of the project will be launched in a timely manner;
The second phase of the project must first build a large-scale high-rise warehouse nearby the first-phase warehouse. This is the fundamental reason why the land must be obtained at the beginning to meet the needs of the first and second phases of the project;
Immediately after the construction of the high-rise warehousing was completed, the warehousing centers that were originally located under the same roof as the sorting center were all evacuated and moved into the automated high-rise warehousing base. In this way, not only the overall capacity of the warehousing was greatly improved, but the sorting center also Provides more space for improvements and upgrades.
In the third stage, all sorting and warehousing will be automated. By that time, the dual-mode operation of "SF Express + JD Logistics" will be able to run smoothly!
Third update, this is the first chapter.
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