We are the leading technology-driven supply chain solutions and logistics services provider in China. We offer a full spectrum of supply chain solutions and high-quality logistics services enabled by technology, ranging from warehousing to distribution, spanning across manufacturing to end-customers, covering regular and specialized items. According to the CIC Report, we are the largest player, in terms of total revenue, in China’s integrated supply chain logistics services industry with a market share of 2.7% in 2020. The integrated supply chain logistics service is a sub-segment of logistics services and accounted for roughly one-third of the outsourced logistics services spending in 2020, according to the CIC Report. Compared with other forms of logistics services, integrated supply chain logistics service possesses distinctive features such as end-to-end coverage, more advanced technologies, and higher requirements on industry know-how, all with the purpose to empower customers’ business operations and meet their evolving needs.
Our value proposition is to empower our customers’ supply chains and substantially improve their operational efficiencies, which in turn enhance their own customer experience and stickiness. We help our customers reduce redundant distribution layers, improve the agility of their supply chains, and optimize inventory management. Our solutions are powered by our proprietary technology, industry know-how and insights of product merchandizing. In 2020, we served more than 190,000 corporate customers across a wide array of industries, such as fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), apparel, home appliances, home furniture, 3C, automotive and fresh produce, among others.
Our journey began with the establishment of JD Group’s in-house logistics department in 2007, and we have been continually building our logistics infrastructure, technologies, as well as operational and industry know-hows for over a decade. Starting from 2012, we helped JD Group maintain its inventory turnover days consistently below 40 days despite the significant increase in the number of SKUs. In 2020, approximately 90% of the total online retail orders processed for JD Group through our networks were delivered on the same day or the day after the order was placed. With the fundamental approaches of minimizing the number of transits and shortening the distance between merchandises and consumers, we led the upgrade of supply chains of the e-commerce industry in China. Through this process, we have built up our nationwide and strategically-located logistics infrastructure and technology platform from ground up, raised the industry standards for service quality, and accumulated deep know-hows in key industry verticals. We have then opened up our solutions and services to external customers since 2017 with the goal of empowering their supply chains.
We believe China’s rapid digitalization of the economy has created increasingly multi-faceted customer demands. Such demands are currently serviced by a fragmented group of incumbent logistics players and are severely underserved, which present significant opportunities for supply chain solutions and logistics services providers like us. According to the CIC Report, the market size of the integrated supply chain logistics services industry is expected to grow from RMB2,026 billion in 2020 to RMB3,190 billion by 2025, representing a CAGR of 9.5%, which is approximately 1.8 times the growth of China’s logistics spending over the same period. The integrated supply chain logistics services market in China is highly fragmented due to the vast size of the market and specific requirements across industry verticals. According to the CIC Report, the top ten players, which are typically contract logistics players or spun-off logistics departments of large enterprises, only accounted for 9.0% market share in terms of revenue in 2020.
Supply chain technology is the bedrock of our operations and differentiates us from our competitors. We leverage fundamental technologies such as 5G, AI, big data, cloud computing and IoT to continuously improve our capabilities in automation, digitalization, and intelligentization. We use advanced unmanned technologies and robotics, such as automated guided vehicles (AGVs), autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and sorting robots, self-driving vehicles, among others, to deliver critical improvements in speed, accuracy and productivity in all key logistical operations including warehousing, transportation, sorting and delivery. As of December 31, 2020, we operated 32 Asia No. 1 smart mega warehouses covering 22 cities in China, including a fully unmanned warehouse located in Shanghai, which can process more than 1.3 million orders per day during peak seasons. Our proprietary warehouse management system (WMS), transportation management system (TMS) and order management system (OMS) support the digitalization of our customers’ supply chains, and are coordinated and synchronized by our intelligent algorithms to enable centralized decision making in areas such as sales forecasting, merchandise distribution planning and supply chain network optimization. As of December 31, 2020, we were entitled to over 4,400 patents and computer software copyrights (including applications thereof), of which over 2,500 relate to our automation and unmanned technologies.
We have established six highly synergized logistics networks which are extensive, flexible and digitally integrated, providing us with strong competitive advantages in delivering compelling customer experience and serving as an effective entry barrier against our competitors. These six logistics networks are our warehouse network, line-haul transportation network, last-mile delivery network, bulky item logistics network, cold-chain logistics network and cross-border logistics network. Our logistics networks cover almost all districts and counties in China as well as China’s total population. As of December 31, 2020, we operated over 900 warehouses, which covered an aggregate gross floor area of approximately 21 million square meters, including warehouse space managed under our Open Warehouse Platform. As of December 31, 2020, we had a team of over 190,000 delivery personnel and also connect with an extensive crowd-sourced on-demand delivery network.
While we control and operate our mission-critical logistics infrastructure to deliver high-quality services and best-in-class customer experiences, we embrace synergistic collaborations in building our supply chain network in order to bring together the complementary capabilities of various industry participants and strategic partners in China and globally. As an example, utilizing our Open Warehouse Platform, we can improve the operating efficiencies of our customers’ warehouses through implementation of our advanced warehouse management systems. Furthermore, we also utilize capacity from these warehouses to further expand the reach of our warehouse network. As part of our global strategy, we are also continually building our international supply chain network, which covered more than 220 countries and regions as of December 31, 2020.
We have achieved rapid growth during the Track Record Period. Our revenue grew by 31.6% from RMB37.9 billion in 2018 to RMB49.8 billion in 2019, and further grew by 47.2% to RMB73.4 billion in 2020. Given the significant market opportunities in the integrated supply chain logistics service industry in China, we expect that, in the near-to-medium term, we will prioritize growth of our business and expansion of our market share over our profitability.
Source: JD Logistics (02618) Prospectus (IPO Date : 2021/05/17) |