The 2022 government work report proposes to "promote the development of the digital economy". This is the fourth consecutive year that the government work report mentions the "digital economy", from "strengthening the digital economy" to "promoting the development of the digital economy", in the wave of digitalization, the industry has ushered in great changes, the digital economy has become an important engine to promote the transformation of enterprises, accelerate social innovation, but also an important part of China's economic growth.
Shaanxi Coal Transportation and Marketing Group is the beneficiary of this wave. In order to improve the efficiency of production and marketing, Shaanxi Coal Transportation and Marketing Group, together with JD.com, has developed a digital logistics scheduling system, which generates logistics orders according to the allocation of orders, and the logistics company receives the order and then dispatches it through the "dispatch order". This alone has improved the logistics performance efficiency by 20% in the first phase of the project, and the most intuitive performance is that each driver can spend an extra day a week with his family.
In JD.com, there are many cases in which digitalization has brought tangible benefits to real enterprises and practitioners in the industrial chain. As a new type of entity enterprise, JD.com connects the consumer Internet of about 570 million users at one end, and the industrial Internet of hundreds of thousands of brands and manufacturers in the national industrial belt on the other end. As the core brand of JD Group's output technology and services for government and enterprise customers, JD Cloud is deeply integrating JD.com's best practices with all walks of life based on JD.com's digital and intelligent social supply chain, realizing cross-industry exchanges, and helping a series of entity enterprises achieve digital transformation.
Continuous technology investment
JD Technology has invested nearly 80 billion yuan
On March 10, JD Group released the fourth quarter and full year results of 2021, with a net income of 951.6 billion yuan, an increase of 27.6% year-on-year. High-quality growth is inseparable from solid technical support, since the beginning of 2017 to the comprehensive transformation to technology, the entire Jingdong system has invested nearly 80 billion yuan in technology, through continuous exploration of cutting-edge technology, give full play to the growth efficiency of new entity enterprises, and help the high-quality development of the real economy.
Throughout JD.com's 19 years of practice, the retail business model of new entity enterprises is not simply buying and selling goods, but through a large amount of infrastructure investment and digital technology innovation, to help partners improve operational efficiency and accelerate capital turnover. In the fourth quarter of 2021, JD.com continued to maintain a global lead in operational efficiency on the basis of nearly 10 million self-operated SKUs (inventory holding units) goods, and the inventory turnover days further decreased to 30.3 days, accelerating by 8 days in the past three years.
At the same time, based on the sensitivity brought about by technology research and development, JD.com took the lead in sensing the need for data "going to the cloud". As the underlying infrastructure for the operation of JD.com's various businesses, JD Cloud has also gone through "6·18" and "11·11" and other major tests, growing and growing all the way, and the verifiable cloud computing scale behind the transaction has also reached a new peak.
Today, JD Cloud has become one of the inseparable technical bases of JD.com's retail, logistics, finance and other businesses. In terms of logistics business, JD Logistics has achieved full cloud migration. Jingdong has built 43 "Asia One" large-scale intelligent warehouses, covering key cities across the country, 93% of districts and counties, 84% of townships have achieved same-day delivery and next-day delivery, creating a world-class commodity management level, which is inseparable from the underlying technical support of Jingdong Cloud.
Rooted in the industry, to be the "cloud that understands the industry best"
In line with the wave of digital transformation, cloud platforms have become a just need for high-quality industrial development. Different from other cloud platforms, JD Cloud's unique advantage lies in its in-depth understanding of all aspects of the real industry chain. At present, JD Cloud has been practiced and applied in many industries such as transportation, retail, logistics, and energy, serving customers in many industries including BAIC, Dada, Cotton Times, and Guangxi Jinda.
For example, in the automotive industry, JD Cloud has created a proprietary hybrid cloud platform base for BAIC Group, integrating multiple data centers and private clouds for the group, providing rich cloud products including elastic computing, application-level security monitoring intelligence, management scheduling, etc., to meet the needs of steady-state business such as production and manufacturing, and to solve the pain points of resource pooling of multiple public cloud manufacturers introduced by each branch before, with loose resource management, high IT maintenance costs, and low resource utilization , successfully save 50% of IT costs.
In the field of energy, JD Cloud and Shaanxi Coal Transportation and Marketing Group built a cloud platform for transportation and marketing, opening up the upstream and downstream supply chains, realizing online business and digital upgrading of transportation and marketing processes, and realizing intelligent logistics scheduling and management; as well as helping Sinochem Energy achieve unified application services for digital construction, building open and integrated digital technology service capabilities, strengthening the integrated collaborative control of cross-system and cross-business units between various business departments, and gradually realizing "end-to-end" business collaboration to help business agile development and iteration.
Many cases have proved the value of JD Cloud in helping the industry take off. It can be expected that with the help of the cloud platform represented by JD Cloud, the prospect of digital-real integration is unlimited.