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Research on the Development of the Fourth Party Logistics in China
First, the fourth party logistics
The fourth party logistics is the integrator and coordinator of the supply chain, managing all the resources, capabilities, technologies and other supplementary services of the organization itself and providing comprehensive supply chain solutions. The fourth party logistics mainly monitors the supply chain of enterprises, so as to realize fast, high-quality and low-cost logistics services. On the basis of solving enterprise logistics, we should integrate social resources and solve the problems of fully enjoying logistics information and making full use of social logistics resources.
The fourth party logistics is to apply the relevant optimal resources and strategies to the operation of enterprises, so as to improve enterprise performance and promote economic development. The role of the fourth party logistics is mainly reflected in the following aspects:
1. Continuously reduce the overall cost of enterprise logistics. The fourth party logistics can make full use of its logistics network and existing information technology to integrate, coordinate and manage the activities and conflicts of interests of all participants in all aspects of logistics, thus helping enterprises to continuously reduce the overall operating costs of logistics.
2. Cultivate the core competitiveness of enterprises. Core competitiveness is the source for enterprises to maintain their sustainable advantages in market competition. Adopting the fourth party logistics can enable enterprises to better allocate their own resources, focus on their core business, concentrate superior resources to expand their main business, greatly enhance their core competitiveness, and provide sustainable power for their subsequent development.
3. Promote healthy economic development. With the sustained high-speed economic growth in China, the demand for logistics is increasing, and the economic development is increasingly dependent on logistics. The fourth party logistics can improve the service quality and ability of the whole logistics industry with its efficient operation and meet the requirements of economic development.
Second, the development of fourth-party logistics problems in China
1. The share of third-party logistics in China logistics market is very low. Developing and improving the service function and position of the third party logistics is the key to the development of the fourth party logistics. In China, some third-party logistics enterprises are transformed from traditional logistics enterprises, and some are transformed from wholly foreign-owned and joint ventures, which are still in the period of transformation and development. The share of third-party logistics in the whole logistics market is low, and it does not have the ability to integrate logistics resources in the short term.
2. The logistics infrastructure in China is backward. There is a certain gap between China's logistics infrastructure and equipment conditions and the development requirements of the fourth party logistics. China has initially formed a transportation system consisting of five modes of transportation: railway, highway, waterway, civil aviation and pipeline. Great progress has been made in infrastructure, technology and equipment, management level and transportation market, but it still cannot meet the needs of the development of the fourth party logistics.
3. The management system is not perfect. In our country, because the system is not straightened out and the division of labor between departments overlaps, various problems such as division of departments and redundant construction in logistics industry management have been caused.
4. Supply chain management technology is not yet mature. At present, China's supply chain management technology is immature, and the ability of enterprise organization change management is poor. At the same time, the infrastructure of the whole logistics is backward, and the customer scale is small, so it can't afford the service of the fourth party logistics. The development of the fourth party logistics must be based on the highly developed third party logistics and the extremely popular outsourcing.
5. Low degree of logistics informatization. Informatization is the soul of logistics, and a strong logistics information network is the premise of the development of the fourth party logistics. Using information network technology can control all links of logistics supply chain, integrate the logistics resources of the whole country most effectively, improve the operation efficiency of logistics and reduce the logistics cost. At present, due to the immaturity of information technology, high investment cost and low degree of informatization, there is no public information platform that can realize information sharing between all enterprises in the supply chain and third-party logistics enterprises.
6. Lack of modern logistics talents. The competition among logistics industries not only needs advanced technology and abundant funds, but also needs a group of high-quality logistics talents. The development of the fourth party logistics requires that logistics talents not only have basic knowledge and rich practical experience, but also have all-round knowledge and ability in information technology, human resource management and technology integration. At present, there is a serious shortage of such high-quality logistics talents in China.
Third, the development of fourth-party logistics countermeasures
1. Strengthen the planning and construction of logistics infrastructure. The government should make overall planning, integrate logistics resources, strengthen coordination, increase investment in logistics infrastructure, actively guide all sectors of society to set foot in the investment and construction of logistics industry, and lay a good foundation for logistics distribution. At the same time, formulate standardized policies for the development of the logistics industry, and reasonably establish logistics parks, logistics bases and logistics centers with certain scale and location advantages throughout the country. Accelerate the standardization and standardization of logistics industry.
2. Vigorously develop third-party logistics. Vigorously developing third-party logistics is the most important measure to improve the development level of China's logistics industry. In the whole logistics supply chain, the fourth party logistics is the manager and integrator of the third party logistics, and integrates social resources through the third party logistics. Only by vigorously developing third-party logistics enterprises can fourth-party logistics have a development foundation. In order to meet the development needs of modern logistics industry, we must vigorously develop third-party logistics, cultivate large enterprise groups and improve the efficiency of logistics industry.
3. Accelerate the informationization of the logistics industry and establish a national logistics public information platform. Developing the fourth party logistics is the most powerful means to solve the problem of logistics resource allocation in the whole society. At present, China is advancing the process of informatization, transforming the booming modern logistics industry with advanced information technologies such as RFID, EDI and GPS, establishing a public information platform for logistics industry with network technology, and integrating logistics resources through information technology and network technology, which can make China's logistics industry qualitatively upgraded and calmly cope with the competition of multinational logistics enterprises.
4. Accelerate the training of logistics talents. Talent is the soul of an enterprise, and fourth-party logistics enterprises especially need a large number of logistics talents. At present, the logistics talents are far from meeting the needs of the development of the fourth party logistics. We should cultivate and train talents in practice through universities and professional logistics consulting institutions, and cultivate an entrepreneur and logistics management backbone team that adapts to the development of modern logistics industry. It is necessary to attract a large number of talents in information technology, human resource management and network technology. And encourage these talents to combine their knowledge with logistics knowledge to promote the development of the fourth party logistics. Vigorously introduce and cultivate logistics compound talents who master modern knowledge, and form a high-quality talent team to adapt to the development of modern logistics industry, so as to promote and guarantee the future development of fourth-party logistics in China and improve the overall level of logistics industry in China.
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Research on the Development of the Fourth Party Logistics in China
Abstract: the fourth party logistics is the integrator of supply chain, which can solve the defects existing in the operation of the third party. This paper analyzes the meaning and related functions of the fourth party logistics, expounds the external and internal conditions needed to become the fourth party logistics, and according to the development status of China's logistics industry, analyzes the feasibility and basic ideas of constructing a complete fourth party logistics.
Keywords: supply chain fourth party logistics third party logistics
As a new supply chain management method, the fourth party logistics is becoming a new industry hotspot and has been widely concerned. There are many theoretical researches on the fourth party logistics abroad, and there are some successful cases, but the fourth party logistics is still in its infancy in China, and the introduction and operation of the fourth party logistics by the business community is also blind. On the basis of analyzing the meaning, function and organizational structure of the fourth party logistics, this paper probes into the conception of developing the fourth party logistics in China.
First, the meaning and function of the fourth party logistics
The fourth party logistics is a supply chain integrator, which provides customers with a complete set of supply chain solutions by integrating and managing different resources, capabilities and technologies owned by companies and complementary service providers. Fourth-party logistics enterprises do not look at the relationship between enterprises from the perspective of cargo transportation, but from the perspective of the goals and interests of customer enterprises, seeking the complementary resources and advantages between customers. Fourth-party logistics enterprises integrate their own business with customers' business operations, emphasizing the importance of business process coordination technology in the actual management process.
The role of the fourth party logistics has the following aspects: the fourth party logistics supplier is the manager of logistics information, and they collect and process all the operation data and cost information in the supply chain. Through the analysis and calculation of information, a supply chain solution suitable for customer enterprises is designed. It is the integrator and integrator of supply chain. The fourth-party logistics provider uses its system infrastructure and public information platform to connect the manufacturer with its suppliers and consumers, and can use its management ability to integrate and integrate the upstream suppliers and downstream customers of the manufacturer. It is the buyer of logistics services, and the fourth-party logistics provider can provide logistics procurement skills for manufacturers. Through the expert team specializing in logistics and supply chain, cost analysis and operation optimization, the fourth-party logistics provider can effectively evaluate the best logistics service provider that is most suitable for providing a certain logistics service.
Second, the fourth party logistics organization
Members of the fourth party logistics organization generally include:
Entrust customers. The fourth party logistics organization is generally an organization formed by the signing of joint venture agreements or long-term cooperation agreements between major customer enterprises and service providers. There can be one or several customers who participate in the fourth party logistics, either in the same industry or in different industries. According to its scale and strength, it can be divided into major customers and general customers. Among them, the main customers constitute the basis or market for the survival and development of the fourth party, and they play two roles in the fourth party logistics organization. First, as a member of the fourth-party logistics organization, the entrusting customer will usually transfer its entire logistics and procurement management, including logistics equipment, logistics managers and operators, to the fourth-party logistics organization, in addition to investing with other organizations. In return for capital contribution, the fourth party logistics organization is responsible for managing and operating the whole supply chain management function of major customers. Second, customers of the fourth-party logistics organization maintain long-term and stable business relations with the fourth party.
Third party logistics service provider. It is an organization that provides professional logistics services for enterprises and the main body of supply chain implementation.
Have certain service facilities, service expertise and experience, and provide comprehensive and diversified services such as procurement, warehousing, transportation, vehicles, loading and unloading, material distribution, material handling, etc., and can also be an enterprise engaged in a certain logistics business service. It is the main undertaker of the fourth party logistics in the operation of logistics entities.
Management consulting company. Consulting institutions, management consulting companies and similar organizations engaged in logistics management services have strong strategic management capabilities. It has no specific logistics facilities, but it has high-quality logistics managers and rich management experience, and understands and grasps logistics information. Mainly engaged in logistics evaluation, logistics planning, logistics consulting, system implementation, logistics training, can help enterprises to carry out scientific planning and management, improve revenue and competitiveness. Play the role of a think tank.
Other value-added service providers. Mainly some IT information service providers and professional service providers such as marketing, packaging, processing and distribution.
The fourth party logistics organization has great flexibility, and its main operation modes include supply chain cooperation alliance, integrated solution, industry innovation and dynamic alliance mode. From the organizational structure of the fourth party logistics, as the connection point between customers, the fourth party logistics provides diversified services through cooperation or alliance. So as to realize the best integration of services and resources and ensure that products can be delivered to demanders quickly, with high quality and low cost.
Conditions for the development of third-party logistics
The prospect of the fourth party logistics is very attractive, but the threshold of becoming the fourth party logistics is also very high. The experience of the United States and Europe shows that if you want to enter the field of fourth party logistics, you need to have certain external and internal conditions.
The external conditions for developing the fourth party logistics: the mature third party logistics market. The emergence of the fourth party logistics should have a highly developed and competitive third party logistics as the soil. Because the third-party logistics enterprises have been engaged in logistics supply chain management for a long time, they have accumulated some experience in collaborative management. The fourth party logistics must integrate the social resources of the third party logistics and develop gradually on this basis. Have a logistics public information platform. Logistics information platform can integrate the information resources of logistics information system, complete data exchange between systems and realize information sharing; Through the logistics information platform, we can strengthen the cooperation between logistics enterprises and upstream and downstream enterprises, and form and optimize the supply chain; At the same time, it can provide good logistics services for e-commerce and promote its development.
The internal conditions for the development of the fourth party logistics are: first-class supply chain strategy formulation, business process reengineering, technology integration and human resource management capabilities; Leading position of integrated supply chain technology; Able to manage multiple different suppliers at the same time, with good relationship management and organizational skills; There are a large number of experienced supply chain management professionals in business process management and outsourcing implementation; High-level supply chain planning, strategy formulation, business process reengineering, technology integration and human resource management capabilities; Have a deep understanding and management ability of organizational change; Experts in industry management have a deep understanding and grasp of their industry; Global expanded network coverage and support capabilities.
Fourth, the birth of the fourth party logistics company in China.
The market demand of the fourth party in China is considerable. At present, the modes of China's fourth-party logistics enterprises mainly include:
Directly evolved from the third-party logistics. From June 5438 to February 2002, New Industry Integrated Logistics Co., Ltd., the first fourth-party logistics company in Shenzhen, was established. One month before 1 1, Ande Logistics, a third-party logistics company controlled by Midea Group Shang Wei Company, signed a summer strategic cooperation agreement with Dong Ze, a famous home appliance seller in Guangzhou. On the basis of the third-party logistics, the two parties jointly established the fourth-party logistics, which provided a complete set of solutions for Dong Ze, involving the transportation, storage and tracking of goods from suppliers to distributors to single customers.
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Types of technical cooperation. Starting from 1998, Shenzhen New Industry Company cooperated with Fujitsu Company to develop a logistics center management system that conforms to China's national conditions. In 2000, Zhuhai Dong Ze cooperated with SAP, the world's largest enterprise management software supplier and the third largest independent software supplier, to introduce R3ERP system and adopt GPS-assisted logistics distribution system. At present, Jiuchuan Logistics Company has established long-term and stable cooperative relations with domestic and foreign large enterprises such as Panasonic, Philips, Wal-Mart, Gree Electric and Kelon Electric. Jiuchuan Logistics Company has realized the timely networking of all logistics centers in China. Customers can operate orders in SAPR3 system of Jiuchuan Logistics Company, inquire about the inventory changes of all warehouses in the country, and schedule resources from the warehouse closest to customers to keep abreast of the information changes of suppliers in all aspects of the supply chain.
Five, the idea of developing the fourth party logistics in China
1. Develop third-party logistics to prepare for the development of fourth-party logistics.
Vigorously develop third-party logistics enterprises, improve the level of the whole logistics industry, and pave the way for the development of fourth-party logistics. The fourth-party logistics enterprises have a strong demand for management capabilities, which requires them to have not only one or several core business management capabilities, but also comprehensive management and coordination capabilities. The reason is that the fourth party logistics should organically integrate the resources of different participating enterprises, and make reasonable arrangements and scheduling according to the specific situation of each enterprise, thus forming the unique service skills and all-round and in-depth management of the fourth party logistics. These obviously cannot be produced in a sudden mutation. According to the law of development, the main body of the fourth party logistics is not only the customer enterprises, but also the highly developed and competitive third party, which is the breeding ground of the fourth party. Because these third-party logistics enterprises have been engaged in logistics supply chain management for a long time, they have the corresponding management knowledge and ability, and at present, excellent third-party logistics enterprises have been engaged in the provision and management of various high value-added activities, and have initially accumulated some experience in comprehensive and coordinated management, so such enterprises may develop into the fourth party. Without the maturity of the third-party logistics market, especially the formation and growth of excellent third-party logistics enterprises, it is difficult for the fourth-party logistics to appear and develop.
2. Accelerate the integration of e-commerce and modern logistics industry, and establish a national logistics public information platform.
Developing the fourth party logistics is the most favorable means to solve the problem of logistics resource allocation in the whole society. At the same time, the best way to combine the booming e-commerce with the modern logistics industry is to cultivate the fourth party logistics, establish a national logistics industry platform, and integrate the resources of logistics enterprises through the Internet, so that the logistics industry can be truly upgraded. Only in this way can we calmly cope with the competition of multinational logistics companies.
Chen Weiqiang, CEO of Asia Logistics Technology Co., Ltd. pointed out that in order to develop the fourth party logistics in the Mainland, it is necessary to build an application platform for the fourth party logistics, establish a unified and standardized network platform, and integrate the resources of different logistics enterprises, so as to increase the transparency of logistics and provide customers with more comprehensive supply chain integration services. We should focus on cultivating the logistics information platform with the embryonic form of the fourth party logistics and a certain foundation in integrating logistics resources, so as to develop it into the fourth party logistics.
3, overall planning, do a good job in logistics and distribution infrastructure.
Strengthening overall planning, attaching importance to the investment and construction of logistics facilities and improving the logistics distribution infrastructure are the necessary conditions for the growth of the fourth party logistics. At the same time, the real promotion of China's logistics industry must be accomplished through the fourth party logistics. Establishing a public platform for logistics information and developing the fourth party logistics should be the key development goals of the government. Therefore, in the policy of logistics industry, we should focus on the standardization of logistics infrastructure and industrial services, attach importance to the construction of logistics parks, make logistics facilities and logistics enterprises centralized, reasonable and orderly in space, and implement professional, intensive, integrated and large-scale operation; Establish commodity bar code standards; Encourage technological innovation of logistics enterprises, speed up the training of logistics talents and increase the introduction of talents.
4. Integrate logistics resources and move from competition to cooperation.
Domestic logistics resources are huge, but there is a lack of effective integration among all aspects of logistics in the traditional sense, and a comprehensive management method is needed. At present, the proportion of logistics cost in the total cost of domestic logistics industry is still high, and there is a lot of room for compression. Providing logistics services has a very broad market prospect. The utilization rate of domestic trunk logistics resources is not high, and there is almost no professional service system in logistics distribution. At present, many domestic logistics enterprises are establishing their own logistics systems according to the traditional model, covering the whole process of "trunk logistics-distribution-home delivery", and monopolizing the whole logistics is only an ideal. By integrating the logistics companies engaged in off-site distribution and the distribution companies engaged in logistics terminal delivery to households, the advantages are complementary, thus establishing a new logistics system throughout the whole logistics process. Therefore, it is a shortcut to accelerate the process of China's fourth-party logistics from competition to cooperation through the integration of existing logistics resources.
The biggest feature of the fourth party logistics is integration. The development of the fourth party logistics has largely solved the problem of supply chain integration, thus making the supply chain develop in a stable and orderly direction. However, to become the fourth party logistics, we need to have professional knowledge of logistics market and internal and external conditions such as network, economies of scale, flexibility of third party logistics and information technology. At present, China's fourth-party logistics is only in the stage of exploration and experiment, and there is still a long way to go to achieve it.
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Predicament and outlet of the fourth party logistics development in China
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I. Current research and development status
From the initial practice, after many excavations and the promotion of science and technology, logistics has finally emerged today's global booming situation. Modern logistics with information technology as the core will be based on the contemporary economic forest with a brand-new discipline perspective and a brand-new industrial form. Modern logistics industry will be an important part of the era of knowledge economy. With the intensification of market competition and the refinement of social division of labor, some manufacturers have begun to outsource some businesses that they are not good at, such as transportation and warehousing, to "third parties" in order to concentrate more on their main business. And these businesses all belong to a concept: "logistics". Compared with the past, logistics outsourcing has obvious advantages and its concept is constantly expanding. The logistics service provided by goods suppliers is called the first party logistics, while the logistics service provided by goods demanders is called the second party logistics. The business model of logistics services provided by logistics enterprises other than Party A and Party B is called 3PL for short. In the logistics channel, the third party logistics is a serialized, personalized and information-based logistics agency service of professional logistics enterprises based on contracts and alliances, which provides all or part of the logistics services required by users within a certain period of time. The concept of the fourth party logistics (4PL) was first put forward by Accenture Management Consulting Company of the United States, and registered its trademark. Their definition of 4PL is: "Fourth Party Logistics (4PL) suppliers are supply chain integrators, integrating and managing different resources, capabilities and technologies owned by companies and complementary service providers, and providing a complete set of supply chain solutions". The main function of the fourth party logistics is to monitor the supply chain of manufacturing enterprises or distribution enterprises and act as the only "contact person" between customers and their logistics and information suppliers.
China began to report the fourth party logistics in 2002. At that time, some logistics companies, consulting companies and even software companies in the south claimed that their companies provided "fourth party logistics" services, and their companies were engaged in "fourth party logistics". There is even a logistics company established in Zhongguancun, Beijing, whose full name is directly called "the fourth party logistics company". It seems to be becoming a fashion to flaunt that it is a fourth-party logistics company engaged in logistics services without a fleet or warehouse. But on the whole, none of the above-mentioned logistics companies is a truly strict fourth-party logistics company, and most of them are just vulgarized fourth-party logistics companies in the concept stage. The fundamental reason is that they don't really know what the fourth party logistics is, and they just stay in commercial speculation.
Second, the plight of China's fourth-party logistics development analysis
(A) the development level of third-party logistics restrictions. Developing the third party logistics is the key to developing the fourth party logistics. The emergence of the fourth party logistics should have a highly developed and competitive third party logistics as the soil. Although the third-party logistics has existed in China for a long time, it has only recently developed significantly due to the change of the company's attitude towards supply chain management. In China, the third-party logistics enterprises are either born out of traditional logistics enterprises or from wholly foreign-owned and joint ventures, and are still in the period of transformation and development, so they cannot become "leading logistics providers" in integrating logistics resources in a short period of time. From the analysis of the emergence of the fourth-party logistics, we can see that the fourth-party logistics can develop smoothly only on the basis of highly developed third-party logistics and enterprise supply chain outsourcing, while the third-party logistics enterprises in China are still in the primary development stage. So the role of truly becoming a fourth-party logistics enterprise does not exist.
(B) China logistics infrastructure is backward. Facilities and equipment are the necessary hardware for the fourth party logistics to integrate various resources. There is a big gap between China's current logistics infrastructure and equipment conditions and the development requirements of modern logistics industry, especially the fourth party logistics. The overall scale of China's transportation infrastructure is small, the quality and quantity are far from enough, and the transportation volume is low. At present, the growth of the physical quantity that needs to be transported in China is much higher than the growth of the total freight actually completed. The technical level and facility structure of various logistics facilities and equipment are not reasonable, and the equipment standards among various modes of transportation are not uniform; The standard of logistics equipment is not matched, and the standardization of facilities and equipment is low, which can not give full play to the efficiency of existing logistics facilities; There is a lack of effective connection between logistics packaging standards and logistics facilities standards; There are still few intelligent and automated warehouses; The integration efficiency of warehousing and transportation system is low. The backward logistics equipment leads to high enterprise costs.
(C) Lack of logistics information sharing platform. Informatization is the soul of logistics, and building a national logistics public information platform is a necessary condition for developing the fourth party logistics. Only through the network platform can the fourth party logistics company integrate the national logistics resources most effectively. Only by controlling all aspects of the supply chain can we seamlessly connect with complementary service providers such as customers and third-party logistics companies, realize information sharing and propose perfect solutions for the whole supply chain. At present, the domestic logistics management software is relatively single, and the service platforms of all aspects of logistics can not be seamlessly connected, which directly affects the effective integration of the fourth party logistics to the whole society's logistics resources. Therefore, we must continue to promote the development of information technology and strengthen the construction of the fourth party logistics network information platform. Without a unified logistics information platform, once an enterprise outsources its logistics business, it will bear high supervision costs and easily lead to moral hazard caused by information asymmetry.
(D) Lack of logistics talents. The development of the fourth party logistics needs a group of high-quality logistics talents. Logistics talents should not only have basic logistics knowledge and rich practical experience, but also have all-round knowledge and ability in information technology, human resource management and technology integration. However, in China, there is a shortage of logistics talents. At present, the number of professional managers in China who have the qualification certificate of logistics professional management issued by international authoritative certification bodies is limited, and the gap is large. Logistics practitioners who are now active in the field of third-party logistics are mostly scholars who have returned from overseas.
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Third, explore the way out for the development of the fourth party logistics in China.
At present, China is developing the fourth party logistics under the condition of relatively backward logistics level, and opportunities and challenges coexist. Therefore, how to seize opportunities, overcome difficulties and vigorously advocate the fourth party logistics is the focus of our logistics work.
(A) the development of third-party logistics enterprises, to provide the basis for fourth-party logistics. The fourth party logistics is based on the integration of social resources through the third party logistics, while the development of 4PL can only be based on the highly developed third party logistics industry and the extremely popular enterprise supply chain outsourcing. Only by vigorously developing third-party logistics enterprises can fourth-party logistics have a development foundation. At present, China is still in the primary stage of developing third-party logistics, and the development of logistics enterprises is relatively scattered. There are not only large-scale material groups after reorganization, but also production enterprises extending the supply chain to form specialized logistics companies. State-owned logistics companies have not yet completed the transformation of operating mechanism. Private third-party logistics companies are rising, but they are not full-fledged. At the same time, the outsourcing of logistics by manufacturing enterprises to third parties has not yet formed a climate. In order to meet the needs of the development of modern logistics industry, we must vigorously develop third-party logistics and cultivate large enterprise groups, which can not only improve the efficiency of logistics industry without increasing capital investment, but also pave the way for the development of 4PL and improve the overall development level of logistics industry in China.
(B) the government overall planning, do a good job in logistics infrastructure construction. The premise of 4PL development is advanced logistics infrastructure, and the real promotion of China's logistics industry must be completed by the fourth party logistics. Modern logistics is the product of the integration of many traditional industries, and the infrastructure such as transportation and communication is the hardware environment for its development. The government should strengthen overall planning, attach importance to the investment and construction of logistics facilities, actively guide all social forces to set foot in the investment and construction of logistics industry, and promote the development and overall level of logistics industry in China. Doing a good job in logistics distribution infrastructure is a necessary condition for the growth of the fourth party logistics. The formulation of policies should also focus on the development of China's logistics industry, take the market as the guide, take enterprises as the main body and rely on the demand for logistics services, so as to minimize the total logistics cost of the whole society and improve logistics efficiency. The third-party logistics enterprise itself is the "profit point" of the logistics industry, and it can survive by its own development law, while the fourth-party logistics plays an extremely important role in integrating social resources and promoting the logistics industry, and its development has an important role in promoting or restricting economic development, commodity circulation and mass consumption. Therefore, in the logistics industry policy, we should focus on logistics infrastructure.