Laying Out Physical AI! SIE Partners with Commatech to Create a New Paradigm for Supply Chain Intelligence
On July 22, the "AI-Enabled Supply Chain Collaborative Innovation Forum" was successfully held in Shenzhen. At the forum, SIE (Saiyi Information) and Commatech formally signed a strategic investment agreement. Liu Ziheng, Deputy General Manager of SIE, and Luo Hao, Chairman of Commatech, signed the agreement on behalf of both parties. This important moment was witnessed by Zhang Chengkang, Chairman and CEO of SIE; Professor Huang Guoquan, Professor of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Chief Scientist of Commatech; Professor Zhao Xiande, Dean of the China-Europe Supply Chain Innovation Research Institute; and Chen Qingtao, Deputy General Manager of Qianhai DreamWorks Operation Company.
In 2023, "Generative AI" set off a global technological wave, and AI is rapidly transforming from a cutting-edge concept into a core engine driving business growth. Enterprises are no longer just testing the waters, but deeply integrating AI into their business processes, marking the arrival of an era of full-scale explosion of AI applications. Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO of NVIDIA, stated that the next wave of artificial intelligence is Physical AI — a technological form where AI deeply understands and manipulates the physical world. The strategic cooperation between SIE and Commatech is a key layout to align with this technological evolution trend.
The Physical Internet (PI) is regarded as a revolutionary infrastructure in the logistics field. It aims to build a globally interconnected and efficient logistics network through standardized containers, intelligent nodes, and open protocols, thereby completely breaking down traditional supply chain silos and significantly improving the efficiency of global resource flow. Currently, the European Union leads the formulation of PI international standards through the ALICE Alliance; the United States promotes the implementation of technical prototypes based on academic foundations; and Japan takes the lead in automated node technology. These three parties have jointly built the early development pattern of PI.
The Commatech team led by Professor Huang Guoquan from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is the pioneer in the Asia-Pacific region to systematically study PI, successfully transforming its theory into industrial practice. As China's first logistics technology enterprise with AI as the core decision-making optimization engine and PI as the core business process architecture, Commatech has not only initiated the "PI Alliance" to promote ecological construction but also empowered leading enterprises such as Lenovo, Volkswagen, FAW, and Chery through intelligent decision-making systems including C-Link, C-ROS, C-NAS, and C-Loader. It has helped enterprises save tens of millions of yuan in logistics costs annually and won honors such as being a Gartner Magic Quadrant vendor.
With the new wave of "Physical AI", Commatech's technological potential has become more prominent. Its C-LINK smart logistics platform connects logistics physical nodes through PI real-time data streams and provides optimal solutions for the movement of goods in the physical world with the help of AI intelligent decision-making. Especially under the framework of "human-machine collaborative robot teams" and "open-source ecological security" emphasized by Jensen Huang, Commatech's accumulated core PI + AI technologies will help China gain a voice in the formulation of Physical AI standards, integrate Chinese wisdom into the global logistics intelligence process, and turn the transformation of the physical world from theory into reality.
At the forum, Liu Ziheng, Deputy General Manager of SIE, and Luo Hao, Chairman of Commatech, delivered speeches successively to set the tone for the cooperation. Liu Ziheng stated explicitly that this cooperation is a key move in SIE's "All in AI" strategy, and the two parties will join hands to launch innovative supply chain intelligent solutions. Luo Hao also emphasized that Commatech needs partners like SIE to provide support to accelerate the large-scale implementation of Physical AI from technological breakthroughs to the physical world.
As a professional service provider of AI scenario solutions, SIE will achieve a new leap in its supply chain solutions by strategically integrating Commatech's advanced logistics AI decision-making capabilities. Its digital integrated supply chain products will fully integrate Commatech's logistics algorithm planning capabilities, connect logistics nodes relying on Physical Internet real-time data streams, and provide optimal solutions for supply chain optimization and collaboration with the help of AI intelligent decision-making based on objective physical mechanisms and laws. This will further strengthen its ability to provide full-value chain services that connect information flow and business flow.
During the forum, focusing on the theme of "AI-Driven Supply Chain Transformation", Professor Huang Guoquan, Professor of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Chief Scientist of Commatech, shared the latest academic frontiers in the field of intelligent manufacturing; Professor Zhao Xiande, Dean of the China-Europe Supply Chain Innovation Research Institute, conducted an in-depth analysis of the supply chain transformation path under the AI wave. In the roundtable forum session hosted by Commatech, guests from SIE, Zhonghaitong, and Nanguan Logistics discussed "Opportunities and Challenges of Supply Chain Management in the AI Era" to gather wisdom for breaking through industry bottlenecks.
This strategic signing is not only a resource integration between the two enterprises but also an industrial practice under the "new productive forces" strategy. In the future, the two parties will consolidate the foundation for development with innovative technologies, deeply integrate Physical AI with the supply chain, and jointly build a new future for digital and intelligent enterprises.
Founded in 2016, Commatech (Guangdong) Co., Ltd. is a cutting-edge technology company dedicated to empowering logistics digitalization and intelligence through artificial intelligence and decision optimization technologies. Relying on its unique "hardware + software + algorithm" integrated technical architecture, Commatech takes intelligent logistics decision optimization algorithms as the core, integrates cutting-edge technologies such as IoT, operations research and optimization, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, and has launched the C-LINK logistics digital operation platform, C-ROS logistics intelligent decision platform, and C-NAS network planning simulation system. It provides enterprises with "one-stop, implementable" overall smart logistics solutions to realize their digital and intelligent transformation.
Commatech focuses on the smart logistics supply chain field and continuously expands into industries such as pharmaceutical logistics, FMCG retail, automotive logistics, food and beverage, and 3C electronics. Its major customers include Lenovo Group, FAW Logistics, Chery Automobile, Volkswagen Delian, China Resources Sanjiu, Zhonghaitong, Sinopharm Group, Pagoda, Beijing Chaopi, DB Schenker, Yantang Dairy, Sanjin Food, Rishun Supply Chain, Nanguan Logistics, Furunde Supply Chain, Port Machinery Group, Baiyun Chemical, Xilong Chemical, and Mixue Ice Cream.
