With my country's entry into the WTO, many large foreign car manufacturers have joined hands with my country, bringing my country's commercial car production into a golden period. According to statistics from the China Automobile Association, China's auto production and sales have maintained double-digit growth for six consecutive years. In 2008, China's auto production exceeded 10 million vehicles and the output of cars exceeded 5 million. According to relevant statistics, there are more than 6,000 highway car transport vehicles in the country, and highway car transport accounts for 85% of the total (road, rail, and water transport), and the annual transport volume reaches 4.5 million. If the average cost of road transportation of commercial vehicles is calculated at 1,500 yuan per vehicle, the national average annual turnover will reach 7 billion yuan. It can be seen that the car transport as a commercial vehicle transport

With my country's entry into the WTO, many large foreign car manufacturers have joined hands with my country, bringing my country's commercial car production into a golden period. According to statistics from the China Automobile Association, China's auto production and sales have maintained double-digit growth for six consecutive years. In 2008, China's auto production exceeded 10 million vehicles and the output of cars exceeded 5 million. According to relevant statistics, there are more than 6,000 highway car transport vehicles in the country, and highway car transport accounts for 85% of the total (road, rail, and water transport), and the annual transport volume reaches 4.5 million. If the average cost of road transportation of commercial vehicles is calculated at 1,500 yuan per vehicle, the national average annual turnover will reach 7 billion yuan. It can be seen that the car transport freight forwarding industry, as a commodity vehicle transport, is of great significance in extending the automobile manufacturing industry chain and driving the third-party service industry.

There are approximately 20 sedan freight forwarders in Wuhan, with approximately 1,500 sedan vehicles, with an annual transport volume of approximately 1.17 million vehicles, and an average annual turnover of 1.7 billion yuan. However, in recent years, the development of sedan freight forwarders in Wuhan has been slow, basically staying at the level of 2005. On the one hand, it is affected by the rising prices of fuel, road and bridge tolls, steel, tires, auto parts, labor, and land; on the other hand, it is affected by the operating pressure of upstream companies, lowering prices, extending the billing period, and increasing road fines. Seriously, the capital chain of freight forwarding companies has tightened, and operational risks have increased.

Constraints and existing problems

At present, the difficulties faced by the car transport freight forwarding industry can be summarized as follows: high customer requirements, high operating costs, large market fluctuations, high operating risks, low service prices, and low corporate profits. There are mainly the following four problems in the car freight forwarding industry:

One is that the common operating mechanism of the car transport freight forwarding industry is private, and the concept of developing modern freight forwarding is relatively lagging behind, and the understanding of supply chain management, reducing circulation costs, and improving the core competitiveness of enterprises is limited. Little attention is paid to the rationality of freight forwarding methods and the impact of adjusting the organization of freight forwarders on the development of enterprises. Its business model, service quality and work efficiency are difficult to meet the needs of socialization.

Second, freight forwarding activities mainly rely on the relatively narrow self-operated freight forwarding method within the enterprise to complete. Basically, it is a warehouse + a fleet, and it independently manages the entire freight forwarder. The various links of freight forwarding (such as warehousing, distribution, transportation, etc.) lack effective integration, and the efficiency of freight forwarding is at a low level and high consumption. Lack of the support of a unified and coordinated industrial policy system, and the benefits of scale are not obvious.

Third, most freight forwarding companies are still in the manual operation stage for information collection, sorting, development, and use, and there are few applications of advanced network information technologies such as vehicle GPRS systems and supply and demand information platforms. The scale of freight forwarding service companies is relatively small, and the proportion of specialized freight forwarding services is relatively low.

Fourth, the income of car freight forwarders mainly comes from basic services such as transportation and warehousing management. Some high-tech market operations (such as market planning, process design, information construction, etc.) are often not paid enough attention. Although third-party freight forwarders can adjust themselves, they are limited by capital and talents, making it difficult to achieve a fundamental leap; they can also implement alliances, but due to the fixed mindset and balance of rights and interests among shareholders, it is difficult to achieve results. Development of fourth-party freight forwarders

Ideas

The fourth-party freight forwarder is an organization of resource allocation and management. It has a wide range of resources, its own capabilities and high-tech skills, and provides a supply chain integrator with resource sharing, complementary services, and comprehensive supply chain solutions. It is through the influence of the entire freight forwarding supply chain, fully integrating social resources, relying on industry management experts, specialized technical talents, integrating third-party contract freight forwarding suppliers and value-added service providers, plus its leadership in leadership, ideas, and talents. Advantages, marketing planning, management consulting, and the use of information technology methods to provide customers with comprehensive supply chain solutions.

Grasping the needs of users with one hand, and grasping the entire supply chain of freight forwarders that can meet the needs of users with the other. This is the business philosophy of fourth-party freight forwarders to create core competitiveness. I personally think that the development of sedan freight forwarding in Wuhan should mainly start from the following aspects:

The first is to integrate freight forwarding resources and move from competition to cooperation. Led by industry associations, it will coordinate and coordinate freight forwarding industry experts, introduce new management concepts and management methods, and incubate fourth-party freight forwarders. It also integrates existing freight forwarding resources to enable third-party freight forwarders to move from competition to cooperation.

The second is the standardization and standardization of freight forwarding services. Industry associations take the lead and coordinate with the competent government departments to issue industry norms and standards for freight forwarding services. It is the glue for the integration of freight forwarders. For the freight forwarding industry, it is necessary to use standardization to organically connect the entire freight forwarding supply chain to reduce the difficulty and cost of interface links; for freight forwarding companies, it is effective for improving internal management, reducing costs, and improving service quality. Measures; for consumers, enjoying standardized freight forwarding services is a manifestation of consumer rights.

The third is to provide third-party freight forwarders with freight forwarding solutions or supply chain management solutions, as well as professional technical services, consulting services and information construction services. For example, the unified compilation of "driver training materials" to uniformly train drivers; help establish enterprise management information systems, diversified and intelligent enterprise management software integrating real-time operation, real-time database management, and software data connection; establish e-commerce information platform ; GPS central monitoring system sharing; policy, technology and business information consultation, etc.