With the rapid development of economy, the demand for logistics among enterprises has also increased rapidly, but at present, China's logistics is still in the process of transforming from traditional logistics to modern logistics, and even many enterprises are still doing traditional logistics. In order to improve the level of China's logistics industry, provide better services and adapt to the current social and economic development, we should learn from foreign advanced physical technology and management methods, actively complete the transformation from traditional logistics to modern logistics under the guidance of modern logistics concepts, and promote the pace of modernization of China's logistics industry to adapt to economic development. Compared with traditional logistics, the service content of modern logistics is more diversified, including the overall systematic service and optimized service of information industry, circulation industry, warehousing industry and commodity trading industry. An excellent modern logistics can reflect one of the important standards of a country's comprehensive national strength.
First, what is the third party logistics
Third-party logistics (3PL or TPL for short) refers to a logistics management mode in which production and operation enterprises entrust their logistics activities to professional logistics service enterprises through contracts in order to concentrate their main business, and at the same time keep close contact with logistics enterprises through information systems, thus controlling the whole process of logistics management. So the third party logistics is also called contract logistics. The third party logistics does not belong to Party A or Party B, but provides professional logistics services for Party A or Party B.. Third-party logistics itself does not have its own products, nor does it participate in the sale of goods, but is a serialized, personalized and information-based logistics agency service bound by customer contracts.
Second, e-commerce and third-party logistics.
1. Opportunities brought by e-commerce to the third-party logistics industry
For a long time, due to the influence of planned economy, the socialization of logistics in China is low, and liawqs is not only chaotic in logistics management system, but also diversified in institutions. This traditional logistics mode is difficult to achieve social and economic benefits, which not only leads to low utilization rate of facilities, but also easily leads to repeated construction, resulting in a lot of capital waste and a lot of inventory costs. In addition, China's third-party logistics has seriously restricted the development and growth of third-party logistics due to backward equipment, poor traffic conditions and low transportation capacity.
Since 1997, e-commerce has gradually emerged in China, which has played a very good role in promoting the development of third-party logistics. As the product of modern social economy, e-commerce represents the future mode of trade, consumption and service, which will inevitably lead to the change of traditional logistics pattern, and the development of modern logistics has been put on the agenda. As an important aspect of modern logistics system, the third-party logistics industry needs to be developed urgently in China. 20 10 1 month according to the survey of writing papers, e-commerce became one of the fastest-growing industries in 2009, and many indicators reached new highs. The total annual transaction volume increased by more than 100% compared with 2008, approaching 250 billion yuan. The development of e-commerce in China has entered a new peak, which also means that the development of third-party logistics in China has also ushered in a new one. With the further popularization and application of e-commerce, the importance of logistics has an increasingly obvious impact on e-commerce activities.
2. The relationship between third-party logistics and e-commerce
When describing the relationship between e-commerce and third-party logistics, "successful logistics, failed logistics" is the most appropriate description. The development of e-commerce is based on information technology, which is the basic guarantee of information dissemination, while logistics is to ensure the realization of e-commerce transactions. It can be said that without logistics, the development of e-commerce will slow down. With the rapid development of modern economy and e-commerce, the development of third-party logistics has also got a good development opportunity.
E-commerce mainly refers to the way that buyers and sellers complete shopping through online transactions or other online electronic payments under the conditions of the Internet. This is a new business operation mode that realizes online shopping, various business activities, trading activities, financial activities and related comprehensive service activities under the premise of network development. Visible, the importance of logistics for e-commerce. But ... not every e-commerce company has enough funds to support its own logistics and transportation team. At this time, the emergence of third-party logistics just solved this problem. The third party logistics is a specialized logistics company, and now more and more logistics companies are changing their own situation. Using modern information technology to transform traditional logistics into modern logistics can not only provide professional logistics services for e-commerce, but also provide inventory services for e-commerce enterprises, which not only saves funds for e-commerce enterprises, but also reduces risks and well meets the development of e-commerce. Therefore, the development of e-commerce cannot be separated from the support of third-party logistics, which must be synchronized with e-commerce if it wants to achieve great development and good benefits.
Third, the current situation and main problems of the development of third-party logistics in China in the era of e-commerce
1. The development status of third-party logistics in China in the era of e-commerce
In 2008, the total amount of social logistics in China reached 89.9 trillion yuan, up by 19.5% year-on-year, maintaining a good growth trend and providing a basic guarantee for social and economic development. In 2009, the total social logistics in China increased by about 6% year-on-year, and the added value of the logistics industry increased by about 8% year-on-year. During this period, China's third-party logistics developed well and became an important channel to promote the upgrading of China's economic quality. But generally speaking, China's third-party logistics is still in its infancy, and enterprise logistics and public logistics services are still the main forms of social logistics. In recent years, with the continuous development of the global economy, foreign third-party logistics enterprises have begun to penetrate into many industries in China. At the same time, the merger and acquisition of third-party logistics enterprises by foreign capital has further accelerated the development of third-party logistics enterprises in China.
After the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan", the state's support for the third-party logistics has made profound changes in the service connotation, business model and functional categories of the third-party logistics in China, showing a good development trend, strengthening the degree of specialization and extending the service chain. Nowadays, with the rapid development of e-commerce, third-party logistics enterprises are paying more and more attention to specific target markets in order to give full play to their professional advantages and further extend the connotation of third-party logistics services.
At present, China is one of the fastest developing countries of the third-party logistics. Because the third-party logistics is still in the development stage in China, it has great potential in the future. This is because, with the economic globalization, many domestic multinational enterprises turn their business to China, and their logistics services generally choose third-party logistics to save their supply chain costs. Secondly, domestic enterprises in China will choose specialized third-party logistics companies to reduce costs; Third, thanks to the attention and stimulation of the Chinese government to the third-party logistics; Finally, e-commerce shows a good development trend in the world, which brings endless resources to the third-party logistics and greatly stimulates its development. According to the investigation and statistics of CNZZ, it is estimated that the third-party logistics market in China will reach 5.3 billion US dollars in 201kloc-0/year, with a compound annual growth rate of 27%.