貿易通2019 年年報

二零一九年年報 貿易通電子貿易有限公司 17 Management Discussion and Analysis (Continued) 管理層討論及分析 （續） Business Review (Continued) E-Commerce Business Review (Continued) As for the mega automated warehouse project for our leading retail chain client, the Automated Guided Vehicles (“AGVs”) integrated with our WMS/Warehouse Execution System (“WES”) have been deployed for a pilot run before the end of 2019. Construction of the racking on which the 4-way shuttles would run has also been completed and a test run of the first batch of 4-way shuttles received have as well been successfully executed before the end of the year. Subject to further performance tuning and delivery of the remaining batches of the 4-way shuttles by our partners, we expect the project to be completed in early 2020. Turning back to our major express courier customer who ordered our WMS in the first half of the year to support their new business-to- business (B2B) e-business operations, they have requested further enhancement work from us to support integration and connection to their new business customers in the second half of the year. As mentioned in the 2019 Interim Report, we have commenced our nine-month R&D project for which Government IT supporting funding had been sought as scheduled in June. The project involves the development of a middleware that enables our WES to support AGVs of different brands, thus providing flexibility to warehouse operators to implement automated warehousing solutions. The project is scheduled to be completed in early 2020. Looking ahead to 2020, hit hard by the already dismal economy as further aggravated by the novel coronavirus epidemic, the operating environment for our E-Commerce business is expected to be seriously grim. Further shrinkage of the GETS market is clearly inevitable and what is uncertain is the extent of the fall. Barring such macroeconomic factors which are beyond our control, our GETS business would otherwise remain steadfast given a stable competitive environment and the devoted support of our massive customer base. With business volume dropping, we would strive to achieve a higher average price per transaction to minimize the revenue loss. To this end, we would continue to deliver quality service in which our customers find value-for- money. Nevertheless we would look into implementation of more stringent cost control measures while upholding our service quality. Admittedly this is a major challenge to us. 業務回顧（續） 電子商貿業務回顧（續） 領先零售連鎖客戶的大型自動化倉庫項目，提供 包含了自動導向車（「自動導向車」）應用的倉庫管 理系統╱倉庫執行系統（「倉庫執行系統」），已於 二零一九年年底前試行。供四向穿梭車在其上行 駛的貨架亦建造完成，首批四向穿梭車亦已於年 底前收到及進行測試運行。待進一步調整性能及 合作夥伴交付餘下的四向穿梭車後，我們預期項 目將於二零二零年年初完成。回到主要快遞客戶 項目方面，其於上半年訂購我們的倉庫管理系 統，以支持新的企業對企業 (B2B) 電子貿易業務； 而於下半年，彼等要求我們進一步系統提升工 作，支援融合連接新業務客戶。 如二零一九年中期報告所述，我們取得政府資訊 科技支援資金，如期於六月已開展為期九個月的 研發項目。項目涉及開發一項中間件，讓倉庫執 行系統支援不同品牌的自動導向車，使倉庫營運 者能靈活地實施自動化倉庫解決方案。項目訂於 二零二零年年初完成。 展望二零二零年，本已不景氣的經濟遭受重挫， 新型冠狀病毒疫症使情況加劇，預期電子商貿業 務的經營環境會非常嚴峻。 GETS 市場毋疑不能避 免進一步收縮，下跌的程度則是未知之數。除我 們未能控制的宏觀因素外，基於競爭環境穩定及 廣大客戶群的大力支持， GETS 業務將維持穩健。 由於業務量下跌，我們致力爭取每宗交易有較高 的平均價格，將收益虧損減至最低。就此，我們 會繼續交付客戶認為物超所值的優質服務。然 而，我們將研究實施更嚴格的成本控制措施，同 時會秉持服務質素。這誠然是對我們的重大挑戰。