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What are the advantages of online freight platforms?
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2025-02-18
What are the advantages of online freight platforms, and how will they change enterprises? How should online freight platforms be operated, and how do they make profits?
What are the advantages of online freight platforms, and how will they change businesses? How should online freight platforms be operated, and how do they make profits?
I believe these are the questions that many logistics companies that want to do this but are watching want to know most. Today, we will mainly analyze the advantages of online freight platforms and the impact and changes these advantages have brought to the industry.
Since September 2019, based on the systematic summary of the pilot work of non-vehicle carriers by the Ministry of Transport and the State Taxation Administration, the "Interim Measures for the Management of Road Freight Transportation Operations on Network Platforms" was formulated, and various provinces across the country have successively issued relevant guidelines and notices. Some provinces have also publicized enterprises that have obtained certificates.
From the guidelines, it is not difficult to see that the essence of online freight transportation is still road freight transportation operations. Traditional logistics has achieved digital development of logistics through Internet platform means. While online freight transportation is developing vigorously in various provinces, some enterprises inevitably have some questions. If online freight transportation is an online version of logistics, what can online freight transportation platforms bring to enterprises in addition to increasing investment in enterprise informatization, and what are the advantages compared with traditional logistics? Let's analyze it through the following points.
Fine-grained operational management provides the basic conditions for the enterprise's large-scale development.
Before the development of online freight transportation (non-vehicle carriers), some enterprises have realized that extensive management is a major problem that restricts the development of logistics enterprises. Traditional logistics services, such as low compensation, damage, delayed delivery, and poor service quality, have greatly affected the understanding of the logistics industry by outsiders.
Online freight transportation has changed the traditional extensive logistics model and has achieved fine-grained management of the platform through Internet means. From traditional paper documents and information departments/distribution stations finding vehicles for delivery to electronic signing and online vehicle-cargo matching, the digital development of road freight transportation has provided platform enterprises with efficient online management, accurate logistics services, and real-time data analysis and integration capabilities.
Integration of upstream and downstream logistics resources, and the advancement of logistics towards large-scale development.
As mentioned above, the operation of the Internet platform has greatly improved the office efficiency of enterprises, improved the efficiency of information flow, reduced the work pressure of enterprises, and reduced the management costs of various links. Based on the integration of existing businesses, the platform has more energy to integrate social businesses, and the platform can more effectively support more management work. The efficient integration of upstream and downstream resources has improved the scattered and multi-layered status quo of the logistics industry, resulting in mergers and acquisitions of big fish eating small fish in the logistics industry. It helps logistics enterprises achieve large-scale and intensive development.
National unified management and tax policy support.
After the release of the interim measures for online freight platforms, the State Taxation Administration successively issued document No. [2019] 405. This document points out that a pilot program for network platform road freight transportation enterprises to issue 3% value-added tax special invoices on behalf of others should be carried out. It clearly solves the problem of logistics enterprises issuing 3% value-added tax special invoices on behalf of drivers. Through online verification of business authenticity, it realizes the issuance of individual driver invoices by online freight platform enterprises. It solves the problems of difficulty in obtaining driver invoices for logistics enterprises, difficulty in deducting freight, inability to deduct corporate income tax before tax, and high tax burden.
Some regions provide certain policy support and subsidies for enterprises to operate online freight transportation, further reducing the tax burden of the logistics industry, giving logistics enterprises greater confidence in operating online freight transportation platforms, and the competent authorities have promoted the transformation and upgrading of the logistics industry from the perspective of macro-control, fitting the supply chain reform and enabling enterprises to achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement.