Address order division technology is one of the most necessary technologies for express delivery companies and is the core technology for express delivery companies to operate efficiently. Organize it in a popular language. In fact, in a super large company, it is not easy to make a function super powerful.
It is extremely difficult to provide efficient and stable services when it comes to massive data, and to be able to accurately analyze. What are the labor costs invested, automatic identification capabilities, automatic error correction capabilities, simulation and calculation capabilities? The high efficiency of the system lies in stability, and the cost of input is in output value.
1. Can you reach this area
Express logistics companies need to process hundreds of millions of orders every day. Can these orders be delivered correctly? Can express delivery be delivered? It is impossible to confirm one by one by one manually, nor can you let everyone confirm one by one. It requires a strong address resolution capability. Can these orders be delivered and how to deliver them?
2. Which transfer department is the address belonging to?
Express logistics companies often have about 100 core transit departments and transit centers across the country; these transit centers are the core assets of logistics express companies; generally have strong intelligent transit capabilities; intelligent automatic sorting systems; huge logistics fleets; generally operate at night; it is also one of the most labor-intensive and hardest tasks.
The express logistics you send to should be sent to which the transport center closest to the destination needs to have an efficient logical judgment program; the ability to parse the final transport center matching the target address; this will calculate what relevant routes should be taken from the origin to the final transport center; how to schedule operations, etc.
3. Which franchise outlet is the address?
The matching relationship between each franchise outlet and the transshipment center; from which transshipment center the franchise outlet will bring goods and deliver goods; in most cases, a express outlet will bring goods from a fixed transshipment center, and in rare cases it may also bring goods from multiple transshipment centers to deliver goods; generally, it will be matched according to the distance from the transshipment center and regional principles.
Due to business capabilities, customer development capabilities, various policies, etc., express franchise outlets are closed, newly opened, and merged. Therefore, the express outlets belonging to a certain address is not fixed, and they also need to have a dynamic matching relationship, which is not static. Often, some addresses are not matched accurately; they will cause polluting data, spam data, and affecting normal order-sharing capabilities.
Due to special reasons, this outlet went bankrupt and could not be delivered normally. It also needs to control the express delivery to this area; remind users in the process of placing orders at the source that this area can no longer be delivered normally.
XXX (Transportation Center)- YYYStop sending(Courier Company) - ZZZ (Station or Courier)
Express companies need to sign contracts and regional contracts for business development every few years, usually close to administrative areas, and some may be accurate to the community; they need to quickly mark an administrative area on the map, and the function of express delivery to install an administrative area is easier to define the business scope map of the outlets.
The sorting site and office area of the express company may not be in the area where it is located. Most cities do not have large enough places to provide express company, so it is very likely that the office is in the suburbs, and the delivery area is an area in the city, so it may not be able to work in an ideal location, or even work in the delivery area of another express company.
4. Which station is the address?
Now the logistics express delivery volume is large, which makes couriers spend huge labor costs to deliver from door to door, and the industry is fierce. A community and a centralized area can be unified in delivery, serving everyone according to the express station, and everyone goes to the nearby station to get the express delivery; each express parcel can be quickly classified and quickly collected. The cost of unified packaging to the station can be reduced, and even express delivery outlets can be unified packaging and delivery directly to the express station, reducing the delivery links of couriers, reducing the number of transit times, reducing labor costs, and reducing costs for express companies.
XXX (Transportation Center) - YYY (Express Company) - ZZZ (Station or Courier); Under ideal conditions, such express sorting codes are; but achieving such an ideal condition requires superb technical strength, which is a centralized delivery of express delivery.
5. Which courier is the address?
After a large number of express parcels were brought from the transfer center, they needed to sort them at the express company, and which part should belong to which courier in this express company.
1: It is common for couriers to resign or join.
2: It is also common for a courier to ask for leave and another courier to help him deliver.
3: The area where the courier is responsible for may change, sometimes it will become larger, change the area, become smaller, etc.
4: It is also possible that one of the parts is a contracting area, and there are also several couriers in this contracting area.
5: The merger and splitting of express delivery outlets may also affect the area responsible for couriers.
6: There are special couriers for receiving the goods, and special couriers for delivering the goods, and it is also possible to separate the goods.
7: The courier may use a mobile phone or use the company's professional scanning to operate the gun.
8: One road, with odd and even numbers, and the order number may belong to another road, another courier, or another courier company.
9: It is also possible that a large shopping mall, each floor, and each area belongs to a different courier.
10: A certain road is very long. It is also possible that one area is a courier and another area is a courier company.
11: A certain community, an office building, or a certain company can generate eye-catching signs. The express delivery companies and couriers will be very efficient in sorting these express parcels and packing.
12: When you efficiently mark the delivery range of a courier, the ability to quickly enclose a certain community on the map is perfect.
13: The address has wrong spelling, disorderly order, irregular, standardized, incomplete provinces, cities and districts, etc., and it is technically difficult to adapt to various complex situations.
Which area belongs to which courier company, which courier, and which station require manual maintenance, the workload is huge; here it needs to be able to automatically learn who the address belongs to, which is perfect.
6. Address resolution technology
When a customer places an order, the courier can accept the customer's order message as soon as possible, rather than being dispatched to the province and region through the headquarters, the provincial and regional dispatched to the city and the outlets; when the outlets dispatched to the courier, it may have been half a day, and the overall operation efficiency is very low, and the amount of manual operations required is also very large, and it is not operated accurately 24 hours a day. It is an ideal state to locate the courier to respond within a few minutes of the customer placing an order.
Therefore, address resolution capabilities are the core competitiveness and core technical capabilities of logistics and express delivery companies. Address resolution capabilities that meet their own business scenarios are the most basic information-based fundamental foundation.
Ideal state:
After passing an address:
Is this address within the service scope?
The corresponding standard province, city, district, community
The last transfer center corresponding to this address? The express company corresponding to this address? The station corresponding to this address (community, office building, courier)?
Technical difficulty and problems that need to be solved:
1: The address conversion to GPS may not be accurate or can be converted.
2: Whether this GPS position is within which range, requires efficient computing power.
3: Pure text parsing and matching are also difficult.
4: Calling external interfaces also requires expenses, accuracy and other related issues.
For example, 100 million orders a day, and the accuracy of address resolution is 99%, and there will be 1 million orders for the wrong delivery that day. Then the cost of this wrong order is quite huge and intolerable. The accuracy must reach more than 99.9%.
7. If you have the ideal address ordering ability
1: There is no need for manual rescheduling and a large amount of manpower is reduced.
2: The system can be simplified without all kinds of repetitions and needs to be sorted address parsed. If the parsing is not successful at one time, it requires multiple parsing and various tossing.
3: Reduce mis-issuance, reduce turnover costs, reduce express damage, and improve express delivery timeliness.
4: Reduce various complaints and after-sales handling.
5: It is the core competitiveness and core technological capabilities of express delivery companies.