Debon logistics such as logistics complex and lengthy industrial chain, nearly two million Chinese small and medium enterprises are struggling in a loss of the transport edge: long division management, high taxes, the expansion of transport capacity, making a number of local enterprises are not allowed be able to rely on the driver down wages, overload, cover plates and other means to "save costs", which forced the short-term behavior, is seriously harming the health of the logistics industry in the future.
The face of the global market and high control mode of cross-border logistics giant profits, "congenitally deficient" local logistics companies need to look beyond the cost advantage;
In July of this year, Guangzhou Debon Logistics Co., Ltd. began to experience the "most troublesome" things - drivers rallied together to demand compensation for overtime.
As the largest logistics companies in Guangzhou, one of Debon more than 6,000 employees under the logistics assets of one million, its own vehicles, more than 200 vehicles, more than 1,000 rental units.
Debon Assistant General Manager Shi Kun Xiang told the Southern Weekend reporter early in June when the company enacted a new reward and punishment regulations, "a heavier penalty than," and caused dissatisfaction with some drivers.
"We pay for all drivers, along with playing in their respective bank card, but drivers say that more than 3000 yuan is 8 hours of wages, not including another 4 hours of overtime." Wages were thin on the article clearly marked with the composition of wages, but did not sign a driver 11, allowing Debon eat a Yaba Kui - first in Shenzhen, there are 32 driver for Debon 1.60 million in compensation for overtime, followed by Guangzhou 96 drivers still study sample, the labor department asked Debon compensation for 9.39 million yuan.
In an interview, Debon overtime case, no court of first instance. "If you lose, for our company and the industry is a fatal blow." Shi Kun Xiang said, "Once lost, our company thousands of drivers and registered with the Guangzhou Logistics Association 50000 truck drivers will certainly set off a flood of compensation claims, claim would be astronomical. "
Shi Kun Xiang's worries are not without reason - to prepare the respondent in Debon, when another large logistics companies in Guangzhou "City Star" is also faced with Up to 2400 million in overtime claim.
"In the coming period will be the logistics enterprise of the high rate of labor-management conflicts." Zhang Qiang, Secretary-General of the Guangzhou Logistics Association, said that as the logistics enterprises are all-weather service industries, this decision of the staff work very long hours, but it is not necessarily a very long time Ganhuo However, the timing is difficult to determine, "This kind of labor-intensive industries most likely to lead to labor disputes."
Similarly, China's logistics market is currently showing "80% of the company to earn 20% of the profits" theory, "Air, rail transport, maritime transport produces 80% of the profits, which was a monopoly of transnational corporations and cutting away the vast private logistics enterprises in the ecological value chain, the bottom stem the menial jobs Lei Huo, Zhang Qiang metaphor, "equivalent to the terminal carry the sacks."
And "labor-intensive" compared to the domestic logistics industry at the international level, cross-industry, logistics companies have a completely different profit model. Source Examination big net / in the current top multinational logistics enterprises, the set design, process control, and organization and coordination in the integrated supply chain management has become the core of corporate earnings; at the same time, the logistics company also has a huge logistics facilities and information platform, and continue to construct a global mergers and service system.
Since 2006, China's full liberalization of the logistics market, the foreign giants home with the fastest acquisition of outstanding logistics enterprises, such as FedEx Field M & A, TNT acquisition of Arima, in order to quickly capture the market: for them, the Chinese market, every expansion, through its strong network can be converted into huge profits.
In contrast, SMEs account for more than 95% of the domestic logistics industry, as almost all concentrated in the "Lu Lu" car field of transport, only through the continuous price cuts in exchange for short-term and modest market share. In this sense, the term "labor dispute" in a concentrated outbreak, but this fragile business model come to the end of the symptoms.
Many years of attention to China's logistics enterprises in the development of South China University of Technology, Professor Shou-Ping Gui believes that government policy is not uniform throughout the local protection of a serious, resulting in circuitous transportation logistics market ones, the transport cycle is long, low business performance, "These factors have seriously hampered reduction of logistics costs in our country. "If this is just the market cost, then the policy cost factors more difficult to control," in all competitive industries, logistics enterprises in the fees, taxes and fees are highest in the country which have 13 management departments, and no one wanted to come to gnaw the bones piece of the logistics industry, the sector policy have occurred from time to time are not compatible. "Zhang Qiang, that this is impeding the development of the local one of the main logistics enterprises.
High operating costs, making upgrades weakness of the local logistics industry can only be carried out on the level of simple labor of the primitive accumulation of capital, but lost the future. "Every time the logistics of the General Assembly is more like rivers and lakes of the General Assembly - will be outside the car park, as do high-level auto show, BMW is not a Mercedes-Benz." Accounting professional background, Dr. Shih Kun Xiang said: "This is the line most of the cultural qualities of the boss is not high, making to the money, if the investment environment and bad, they are more willing to squander parade one's wealth, to spend the money elsewhere. "
Research Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences is expected to predict in 2007 the total logistics of Chinese society will reach 73.9 trillion yuan. And in this huge market, foreign giants have been in the international express delivery, shipping logistics and foreign logistics operations in the three high-margin business, accounting for the short term is difficult to break the monopoly position. In which the field of international express delivery, the four international giants control the amount of 80% of the market.
The weak domestic logistics enterprises, enabling them to serve the domestic companies paid a heavy price for the same: In accordance with international practice of social logistics expenses as a percentage GDP ratios in 2005, the ratio is as high as 18.6% in China - which means that for every 100 yuan GDP output value in, they need to pay about 20 yuan logistics costs. In the United States, Japan and other developed countries, this ratio is only 10%, or even 8%.
In this sense, every Chinese enterprises, as well as every taxpayer, are embarrassing for the local logistics industry status quo "pays the bill."