Commerce Development Research Institute (CDRI) has executed project of Ministry of Economic Affairs - a seminar was held today on 26th called "Next Generation E-Commerce Logistics Solutions" SIN (Special Interest Group), will focus on rapid growth and changes in the analysis of E- Commerce logistics industry and invited operation & marketing manager of UCF (United China Air Freight CO) Ms. Shan-Chan Chen, CEO of WORLDiBUY international mall Mr. Wen-Tai Gao, and Chairman of iFit Mr. Ming-Yuan Hsieh co-speaker at the seminar; Logistics innovation trends, case analysis, cross-border logistics with new ecology and third-party storage management strategy as the main axis, to explore the next generation of E-Commerce logistics solutions. This event attracted a total of nearly 100 related industries to participated in, in exchange for future direction of development and market demand of Taiwan's E-Commerce logistics industry.
CDRI said that Taiwan’s logistics service industry has been quite mature and stable, the market volume changes very little in recent years. However, in-depth analysis can be found that taking E-Commerce as the core of the innovative logistics service model has a huge market, and a considerable scale of independent ecosystems. Attracting many enterprises into its once considered to belong to the traditional service, limited innovation and space for the development of the logistics. This trend is to promote the field of logistics in recent years, a rare innovation and investment boom, but also lead Taiwan's logistics industry from quantitative to qualitative change.
CDRI researcher Ms. Fan Ding pointed out that the rapid expansion of E-Commerce brought the demand for non-planned logistics, the traditional logistics facilities and labor burden forming a serious challenge, even has always been known for high-performance logistics services in Japan, "Logistics collapse" of the plight, has a stern warning for our country. Ms. Fan Ding said that based on the E-Commerce, the current logistics services industry is facing profound changes in bringing business opportunities, at the same time, risks were hidden, modern technologies, new competitors, new customer expectations and new business model after another. Taiwan has more than 97% of the logistics enterprises are small and medium enterprises, the future must rely on continuous innovation to create a competitive advantage, to be able to stand firmly.
Ms. Fan Ding further explained that not only the logistics industry, at this stage, the front-end sales service and platform are not enough to support the rapid changes in the market, to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage, platform operation and logistics support must be seamlessly connected. Ms. Fan Ding used Singapore Post and Japan Tenso Co., Ltd. as benchmark cases to share the innovation of overseas enterprises as a reference for domestic industry. Ms. Fan Ding pointed out that Taiwan has started to invest in innovative business services, interactive use of business models and technology into the advantages, hoping to launch the next wave of Taiwan's E-Commerce logistics growth opportunities.
Operation & marketing manager of UCF, Ms. Shan-Chan Chen, based on her own logistics background plus nearly half a century of international express delivery experience as her foundation, to explore the development from cross-border E-Commerce to most difficult logistics core issues: how to measure their own logistics needs, and proper choice of logistics solutions. Ms. Chen described UCF's new "UCFuShip Cross-Border E-Commerce Logistics Platform" service as a new option for cross-border E-Commerce logistics services. She further harmonized several key indicators to advise E-Commerce owners to view logistics partners and select logistics solutions to help business owners to make judgments faster and more accurately.
CEO of WORLDiBUY international shopping mall, Mr. Wen-Tai Gao has based on his years of experience in E-Commerce, summed up the cross-border E-Commerce planning of three major processes, indicating that cross-border E-Commerce in a wide range, except appropriate choice of logistics solutions, goods, pricing, marketing, access, etc., interlocking between each other. Mr. Wen-Tai Gao said WiB provided "WORLDiSELL Global Sales Program" for small and medium-sized enterprises interested in developing cross-border E-Commerce, with a complete international logistics, cash flow, sales channel, marketing and community management services, so that SMEs can lower the risk, through cross-border E-Commerce to develop overseas markets, so that more overseas consumers will see the value of Taiwan goods.
Chairman of iFit, Mr. Ming-Yuan Hsieh shared the key success for E-Commerce. Mr. Ming-Yuan Hsieh found that, for small and medium-sized E-Commerce owners, the back-end logistics and warehousing services have a certain threshold, and most of the industry is quite strange, so need to invest a lot of effort and resources, affecting the overall operational efficiency. Mr. Ming-Yuan Hsieh suggested that E-Commerce owners should invest most of the resources in the core of the brand marketing, business development and product design, warehousing management, cargo storage and logistics with other back-end support services, commissioned to the professional third party. iFit recently developed a logistics integration solution ECFIT, is operating by the core of iFit operating energy, extending the innovative logistics services, by professional E-Commerce logistics services to address the pain points to meet the needs of business owners.
In the rapid promotion of E-Commerce, logistics services have broken through past as a simple supportive role, developed into a strategic strategy operation and innovation guide. It is foreseeable that the future operation of the logistics service will be integrated into a variety of increasingly rich service technology applications, driven by the overall industry towards the information, intelligent, automated direction, and as an important horizontal basis of the series, this trend is not only for the logistics service itself, it’s also expected for the manufacturing and terminal consumption model to bring revolutionary changes, help to create a new economic model and lifestyle.
