Chapter 779

Li Mu had an afternoon meeting with senior brother Liu and several staff specially in charge of logistics business. The purchase order of Taobao logistics in the first stage has been basically finalized.

In the first stage of procurement, the most important thing is vehicles, storage and sorting equipment. Because there is no automatic sorting equipment for the time being, the first stage of Taobao logistics mainly relies on the traditional conveyor belt with manual sorting. Although the efficiency is not comparable to the automatic equipment, it is the most appropriate sorting solution in the early stage.

As the government hasn't given a clear reply, what kind of preferential policies can Taobao logistics enjoy in the future, Li Mu decided to control the capital investment for the time being. The demand plan for vehicles purchased in the first stage is: 60 heavy imported tractors, 100 domestic medium-sized trucks, 300 Iveco light vans.

At present, the tariff of foreign imported vehicles is divided into several grades. The tariff of passenger vehicles is 25%, and the tariff of traction vehicles is very different according to the tonnage, type and fuel consumption. That is to say, even the same tonnage of gasoline and diesel trucks also have different tariffs. The gasoline vehicle tax is the highest, and the diesel vehicle is relatively low. Taobao logistics needs to solve the point-to-point problem The heavy-duty tractors for transportation are all high tonnage diesel tractors, and the current tariff is 21%.

21% of the tariff, if we add in the purchase tax, has reached the standard of 30% as a whole, which is a very large proportion. For Li Mu, if we can solve these two taxes, Taobao logistics can greatly improve the import of heavy vehicles.

Taobao's chief financial officer also told Li Mu and Liu Qidong that they had not considered before: if it is for the daily vehicle import, it will involve 17% value-added tax, which is finally added to the vehicle price. If the government can also exempt 17% value-added tax, the overall tax preference will be greater.

Generally speaking, if the projects supported by the government involve the import of equipment and raw materials, the government will give certain preferential policies. The tariff is only one aspect, and the import value-added tax is also one aspect.

The value-added tax is collected from the customs declaration enterprises. If Taobao logistics orders directly with overseas enterprises, when the vehicles arrive at the customs, Taobao logistics needs to pay 17% of the purchase tax to the Customs at the time of customs declaration. If it can only pass through the domestic dealers, the value-added tax will be paid by the dealers and transferred to the added vehicle price. Finally, Taobao logistics must bear it.

However, the government has always encouraged and subsidized enterprises with far-reaching significance, and there is no precedent in value-added tax. Most of the preferential value-added tax is collected in advance and retreated, that is to say, Taobao logistics pays value-added tax at the same rate of 17% when declaring customs, but the money will be returned to the enterprise account of Taobao logistics immediately after customs clearance.

Li Mu knows that he can't find any more leaders to ask for exemption of VAT, so VAT can only be seen from the meaning of leaders.

If the leaders really value and encourage the development of Taobao, they will think that if they don't think about the value-added tax, it doesn't matter. The reduction of tariff and purchase tax is of great significance to Li Mu.

However, Li Mu secretly calculated the price with his fingers. If the government really exempted 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 tractors responsible for the long-distance transportation of the trunk line alone will reach at least 300, and may reach 500 or even higher in the far stage. If there are sufficient preferential policies, the funds saved will definitely be more than 100 million.

If this money is saved, the automatic sorting equipment can be put on the horse ahead of time, so Li Mu asked Liu Qidong, "I said last time that you should send someone to Germany to visit Berman machinery, and start to arrange it?"

Liu Qidong nodded: "I have arranged a three person group. I just left a few days ago, and I have already contacted Berman there. However, the feedback from them seems to be perfunctory. They don't seem to believe that a private express company in China will be able to automatically sort equipment on a large scale."

Li Mu was stunned.

"What's the fucking age? Do Germans still wear this kind of colored glasses?"

Liu Yidong smiled awkwardly and said, "it's not that they wear colored glasses. They also politely received our people and took our people to visit their equipment demonstration. However, when it comes to specific customized details, they are not very interested."

Said Liu Qidong: "Berman thinks that the Chinese market is not mature for the time being, not to mention the low penetration rate of automatic sorting in China. At present, the national express logistics industry has only three sets of equipment in China, which is used by our postal elder brother. At present, quite a part of the airports in China have not realized the automatic sorting of bags, let alone fast Yes, Berman doesn't have many customers in China, not even branches. "

"Shit." Li Mu said angrily, "in this way, first let them stabilize their emotions, even if they are hot face and cold buttocks. In addition, from now on, let them stay in the best local hotel and rent the top-grade car in Germany. The car must not be driven by themselves. Hire local drivers in Germany, and the level of daily travel consumption is also raised. If you invite Berman's people for dinner and entertainment All of them adopt high standards, and first impress the Germans with their money. "People in Taobao logistics were ignored by Berman, probably because they didn't make Berman aware of the business opportunities, which may also have Berman's contempt for the Chinese market. But no matter what kind of mentality they have, Li Mu's first task is not to let the people he sent out be ignored in front of the Germans. He has to make sure that people in Berman even ignore China Xia's market space also cannot ignore the spendthrift posture of several representatives of Taobao logistics, and then let them reexamine the strength of Taobao logistics.

No company will send a group of people all the way to Germany to spend a lot of travel funds every day just to pull the calf. Even if it does, it at least proves that the company has strong financial resources. To put it plainly, there are four words: there is money!

If Berman can realize this level, they will surely 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 ordinary customers enter luxury stores, they are always despised and discriminated by waiters. In real life, although most waiters don't take the initiative to ask customers for trouble, their eyes are really thieves. If there are many customers in the store, they must focus on dressing well The customers who seem to have a lot of money serve us, so we can ignore those customers who don't seem to have a lot of money actively or passively.

Although Li Mu is not happy with Berman's neglect, he is also clear in his mind that there is nothing wrong with their approach as a whole. Even if they neglect the Chinese market, they have basic etiquette and reception. So what he has to do now is to let Berman look at the people sent by Taobao Logistics in the past, just like the customers in bright clothes, who will enter any store at will Considered the most potential customer.

In addition, Berman is currently the number one enterprise in international logistics automation solutions. Only by looking for them can we solve all problems at once. We must make them pay attention to Taobao logistics, so that we can provide more solutions for Taobao logistics in the future.

What Berman has is not only the automatic sorting system Li Mu is looking forward to at present, but also a very powerful solution - a complete solution of automatic high-level storage.

Automatic sorting system is the solution of express logistics and airline luggage sorting, and the whole solution of automatic high-level storage is the necessary weapon of large-scale modern storage.

General storage is weak in space utilization, inventory record and access efficiency. For the same storage area, the inventory volume of automatic high-level storage can be more than ten or twenty times than that of general storage, and the operation efficiency is much faster.

The automatic high-level storage, to put it bluntly, is that the whole storage base adopts multi-layer shelves of tens of meters in height, with the same floor area greatly improving the storage space, and the goods can be fully automated in and out through the automatic sorting system, so that the storage turnover efficiency can be greatly improved, and the difficulty of high-level operation can be easily solved through the automatic stacking system It can realize the automatic access of high-level storage. The "Asia No. 1" warehouse of JD is such a full-automatic high-level storage base.

Li Mu and Liu Qidong discussed the construction of automatic high-level storage base. The cost is indeed very high. From the beginning of plant construction, the cost is several times lower than that of ordinary storage base, and the price of the whole set of equipment is even higher.

However, Li Mu always thinks that automation must be planned earlier and solved when the cost is high. As long as the automation reform can be carried out by competitors in advance, not only the efficiency will be greatly improved, but also the competitiveness will be provided. If Taobao logistics can achieve the strength of "Shunfeng + Jingdong logistics" in the next two to three years, then this foundation will benefit the whole industry In the future, at least 50% of the express delivery market will fall into the hands of Taobao logistics.

Liu Yidong's obsession with logistics is even stronger than Li Mu's, and this kind of high automation is also his most coveted solution. Since Li Mu, the big boss, also supports it, the two of them can do it in one shot. Then, for automation, he developed a three-stage implementation plan.

The first stage: first, take the land in the city where the major logistics distribution bases are located, and the land area should cover the needs of the first stage and the second stage of the project;

in the first stage, do not rush to build high-level storage, only build large-scale ordinary warehouse, and plug all the sorting centers and storage centers of self built logistics together, and the sorting center and storage center realize semi-automatic, that is, half people The second stage project should be started in time before the continuous improvement of national logistics market such as

and Taobao's business as well as Taobao's proprietary B2C business, and the first stage's capacity is about to be fully loaded;

the second stage project should first build a large-scale high-level warehouse near the warehouse of the first stage, which is also why the first stage of land acquisition should meet the requirements of the second stage 1、 The root cause of the second stage project;

then, after the completion of the high-level storage construction, the storage centers under the same roof as the sorting center will all withdraw and move into the automatic high-level storage base, so that not only the overall capacity of the storage has been greatly improved, but also the sorting center has more space to improve and upgrade.

In the third stage, sorting and warehousing are all automated. By that time, the dual-mode operation of "Shunfeng + Jingdong Logistics" will be able to run smoothly!