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“I’m sorry, I don’t know if the tea will arrive soon. I will ask the responsible staff as soon as possible…” At the end of 2005, at the annual meeting of the board of directors of Hangzhou Hongda Tea Co., Ltd., Chairman Mei Guobao took note By the time, Lu Guanhong, the deputy general manager of the sales department, had been making calls non-stop, and he could hear from his tone that he was struggling to deal with customer questions about the direction and quality of the goods sent out.
What caused Lu Guanhong’s headache the most was that Hongda sent the wrong tea grades to several customers. Some second-level Longjings were issued to third-level, while a batch of third-level Longjings were issued to second-level… this one The matter became a hot topic of discussion at the board of directors. Everyone agreed that the issue of high-quality, full-process monitoring of cargo transportation needs to be taken seriously and resolved as soon as possible.
You code allows mobile phones to easily identify goods
There are many types of tea products sold on the market in my country. According to the classification and processing of commercial teas, they can be divided into seven categories: black tea, green tea, scented tea, oolong tea, pressed tea, Pu’er tea and yellow tea. Moreover, each type of tea is divided into four levels. Judging the tea level is impossible without strong professional knowledge. Therefore, level confusion is easy to occur in the delivery link.
In what way can I and my customers monitor the transportation of goods throughout the process, and can quickly confirm the quality of the goods, which is also very convenient? Mei Guobao felt that only information technology could solve this problem, and he began to look for a way.
In February 2006, a piece of news made Mei Guobao shine: my country’s “Uma” recognition technology with independent intellectual property rights was born, and at the same time, the “Beijing Uma Project” aimed at the application of “Uma” mobile terminal identification technology. Also officially launched. Mei Guobao hurriedly sent someone to Beijing to find relevant technical personnel of the manufacturer to understand the situation. According to reports, “Ucode” is mainly composed of two parts, “code” and “number”, and the core of the technology is two-dimensional bar code technology. Two-dimensional barcode is a brand-new automatic identification and information carrier technology. It is similar to the one-dimensional barcode with black and white and digital combination on commodity packaging, but its advantage lies in its ability to integrate with image, sound, text and other information, and It can be made into monochrome or color as needed to increase the amount of information carried. The user scans it through a portable mobile device such as a camera phone equipped with “Ucode” recognition software, and can directly read the relevant information corresponding to this “Ucode”. If the user’s mobile phone does not have a camera function, entering the premium code number corresponding to this two-dimensional bar code in the mobile phone can also achieve the goal.
Since you can take pictures with your mobile phone, you can of course identify the goods; you can also log on to the designated website to check related information, and of course, you can also monitor the flow of goods. Mobile phones with cameras have become so popular, as long as you download a “Ucode” recognition software, you can use it. Such a convenient and cost-saving solution is simply tailor-made for yourself. Mei Guobao was excited to make a final decision that it was “Youma”, so he asked the Ministry of Information to come up with a plan to implement it as soon as possible.
Youma tracks the goods all the way to the buyer
The application of Youma’s two-dimensional bar code in the circulation system started in the United States and is called “EDI” (Electronic Data Interchange-Electronic Data Interchange).
U.S. companies initially applied EDI to ordering business activities between enterprises. Later, the application scope of EDI expanded from ordering business to other businesses, such as POS credit card machine sales information transmission business, inventory management business, shipping and delivery information, and payment Information transmission services, etc. In recent years, EDI has been widely used in the logistics system and is called logistics EDI. However, the whole-process monitoring solution for cargo superior code adopted by Hongda, based on the logistics monitoring idea of EDI, is low-cost and easy to operate. It is a local method that adapts to domestic enterprise applications.
With the addition of the premium code link, Hongda’s demand for glue has greatly increased, because many of their business processes have added premium codes: when collecting tea from the tea producing area, the company’s employees must have information on the quality and origin of the tea, organic and inorganic information, etc. Collect, make an excellent code label and affix it on the tea bag; after entering the production workshop, the grade, production, packaging and other information of the tea bag must be added to the excellent code. After the production is over, the excellent code with all product information added will be posted again To the outer packaging of the product.
After receiving the customer’s tea order, Hongda will formulate a cargo delivery plan, and publish the information such as the list of goods to be shipped and the delivery time arrangement into an excellent code and publish it on the WAP website. At the same time, the excellent code will be sent by email, mobile phone, etc. To logistics transportation owners and receiving goods owners, so that the logistics transportation owners and receiving goods owners can make vehicle deployment plans and goods receiving plans respectively.
After receiving the feedback information of vehicle deployment and cargo reception, Hongda will issue delivery instructions, sort and distribute the goods according to the customer’s order requirements and cargo delivery plan, and paste the cargo label with the printed logistics code on the cargo packaging box. Then, the cargo information will be made into Ucode again and published on the WAP website, and the Ucode will be sent to the logistics transport owner and the owner of the receiving goods. In this way, when the logistics transportation owner picks up the goods from the company, they can use the mobile phone to read the cargo code label, and check with the previously received cargo transportation data to confirm the delivery of the goods.
The logistics owner sorts the goods in the logistics center, consolidates, makes a delivery list, and publishes it on the WAP website, and sends the delivery information to the receiving owner. At the same time, it can also be used when the goods are delivered. Carrying out cargo tracking management; after the receiving owner receives the goods, Hongda can receive the information of “complete delivery” and “freight request” from the logistics owner.
When receiving the goods, the receiving owner is no longer eager to open the package for specific inspection, just use the mobile phone to read the excellent code label of the outer package of the goods, and check and confirm with the previously received cargo transportation data. After unpacking the goods, use the mobile phone to read the superior code of the inner packaging, you can confirm the product quality of the received goods, and issue the receipt of the goods, and put the goods into the warehouse. If everything is confirmed to be correct, the receiving owner sends the receiving confirmation message to the logistics transportation owner and the sending owner.
You can monitor the circulation with your mobile phone
The advantage of YouMa is that all parties in the supply chain can share information through YouMa based on standardized information formats and processing methods to achieve the purpose of improving circulation efficiency and reducing logistics costs. For Hongda’s tea distributors, the application of Hongda’s excellent code system can greatly reduce the error rate of incoming goods, save the time and cost of incoming goods inspection, can quickly check the order and arrival data, and easily find errors.
The cost of traditional one-dimensional bar code application is relatively high, firstly because of the high cost of communication through the VAN network, and secondly, it is more difficult to formulate and meet EDI standards. Now, with the rapid popularization of the Internet, the emergence of YouMa can provide a fast, simple, and cheap communication method for logistics information activities, so that Mei Guobao and Lu Guanhong no longer worry about goods in circulation.
Now they only need to make an excellent code and paste it on the inner packaging of the product during production, and make the transportation information into an excellent code and paste it on the outer packaging of the product, which will be transported by a professional logistics and transportation company. When handing over, just scan it with a mobile phone with a camera, all the information can be retrieved, and it can be checked immediately; the dealer who accepts the goods can also just scan the premium code on the outer package with the mobile phone to know if it is for him , Open the outer package and scan the inner package to know if it is the grade and variety he needs, and dealers can also scan the transportation code sent to them to grasp the transportation information of the goods anytime, anywhere, which saves a lot of heart .
After launching this system, dealers’ satisfaction has increased exponentially. Now Mei Guobao is considering how to expand production capacity.
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