Question 2: What is the largest logistics company in China? There are three largest logistics companies in China: China Shipping Group (hereinafter referred to as China Shipping), CSCL China Ocean Shipping Group (hereinafter referred to as COSCO) and COSCO Sinotrans Group (hereinafter referred to as Sinotrans). This is the largest logistics company in China! ! ! Sun Hui, the largest professional mobile phone logistics company in China, is the largest online logistics market in China, and Bao Hua Logistics Company is the largest dangerous goods logistics company in China.
Question 3: What does a logistics company mean? What is included? Development trend of logistics industry in transition period after China's entry into WTO
Editor's note:
The discussion of "nine ministries jointly issued a document to promote the development of logistics industry" has been going on for some time. Everyone has published many opinions and opinions on the Internet, and the following are consistent:
First, applaud the policy document issued by * * * to vigorously promote the logistics industry in China;
Second, I hope to implement the policy and see the actual effect;
Third, I hope that industry organizations can play more roles;
Fourthly, we earnestly hope that China's state-owned logistics enterprises and private logistics enterprises will grow and develop as soon as possible, and improve their competitive strength with international logistics counterparts.
At this point, this hot discussion can be successfully concluded.
We have entered 2005. With the beginning of the new year, the logistics industry will be more open. What the logistics industry will look like in the next few years is a question that everyone in the industry and those who care about the logistics industry should think about. Such issues included questions on the following:
Whether the logistics industry can continue to maintain a rapid development trend;
Whether the proportion of logistics industry in GDP can be reduced and how much;
Whether the third-party logistics can develop compared with the past few years;
Whether local logistics enterprises and foreign logistics enterprises can win or win in the market competition;
Research and development trend of logistics technology and application prospect of RFID;
To what extent will the supply chain develop in China;
* * * What other measures will be taken to guide, encourage and support the development of the logistics industry?
Whether the external environment of local logistics enterprises will be further improved, such as taxation, traffic control and enterprise access;
What are the new laws, regulations and policies in logistics?
How to further play the role of logistics industry associations;
What changes have taken place in the exhibitions of logistics, education and training markets, and so on.
Of course, the final answers to these questions will take time. However, it is absolutely necessary to predict, discuss and plan in advance. Therefore, the first hot discussion in 2005 will focus on the development trend of China's logistics industry in the transitional period after China's entry into WTO. The moderator is Mr. Ding Junfa, Executive Vice President of China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing. The theme article is the third part of the theme report on "Three Years after China's Entry into WTO and China's Logistics Industry" made by Vice President Ding at the 9th China Logistics Expert Forum on February 24th, 2004. Welcome everyone to actively participate in the discussion.
The development trend of China's logistics industry in the transitional period after China's entry into WTO.
Ding Junfa, Executive Vice President and Researcher of China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing
After China's accession to the WTO, all its commitments in the field of logistics have been realized, and some of them have been advanced. After 65438+February 2004 1 1, most fields related to logistics have been fully opened. What will be the trend of China's logistics in the late transition period?
(A) China's logistics industry has gone through the initial stage and entered a period of rapid development. It can be predicted that the next 10-20 years will be the golden age for the development of logistics industry in China. The development of China's logistics industry must adapt to the economic development of China. In the next 20 years, under the premise of social stability, the characteristics of China's economic development are as follows: ① The transition of economic system will be completed in an all-round way. (2) GDP will increase by 6-8% annually, and China will become a world economic power. ③ Per capita GDP will move from $65,438+$0,000 to $3,000. ④ Complete industrialization. ⑤ The urbanization rate reaches 50%. At the same time, China's logistics industry will enter a period of rapid development, and the total cost of social logistics will fall below 15% of GDP.
Logistics market segmentation is an outstanding change in the past three years after China's entry into WTO, and will be further subdivided in the later transition period, such as port logistics, automobile logistics, supermarket logistics, pharmaceutical logistics, steel logistics, tobacco logistics, postal logistics, grain logistics, cold chain logistics, petrochemical logistics, household appliances logistics, daily chemical logistics, books and periodicals logistics and so on. In line with this, some professional logistics companies came into being, and their functional orientation was very strict, so as to cultivate their core competitiveness.
Urban logistics and regional logistics will become more and more important. All the logistics in the world are city-centered, but not all the logistics in cities are the same. The logistics situation of a city is adapted to its economic situation and traffic situation. According to the actual situation in China, from south to north, Hongkong, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shanghai, Ningbo, Wuhan, Chongqing, Chengdu, Lanzhou, Qingdao, Tianjin, Beijing, Shenyang, Dalian, Xi and Busan, Taiwan Province Province are all important logistics cities in China. At the same time, the economic development of China presents a regional development trend. Pearl River Delta, Yangtze River Delta and Bohai Rim have all formed urban agglomerations, industrial clusters and port clusters, which are the manufacturing centers of China and even the world. But the midwest of China is a resource base ... >>
Question 4: What's the difference between a logistics company and a distribution station? The distribution station is actually an intermediary, which is to help customers make medium-priced vehicles. Moreover, the logistics company should have its own warehouses and stevedores, and both sides have their own warehouses, so that the sea can be operated. And distribution stations generally have desks for red camps.
Question 5: What is Tong Yuan Express?
Question 6: What is a logistics company? logistics
1. What is logistics?
What is logistics? Logistics refers to the whole process of planning, implementing and managing raw materials, semi-finished products, finished products and related information of commodities from the place of origin to the place of consumption by means of transportation, storage and distribution at the lowest cost.
Logistics composition: commodity transportation, warehousing, packaging, handling, distribution and processing, and related logistics information.
The specific contents of logistics activities include the following aspects: user service, demand forecasting, order processing, distribution, inventory control, transportation, warehouse management, layout and location of factories and warehouses, handling, procurement, packaging and intelligence information.
2. What is modern logistics?
What is modern logistics? Modern logistics should not only consider the distribution of goods from producers to consumers, but also consider the procurement of raw materials from suppliers to producers, as well as the transportation, storage and information of producers themselves in the process of product manufacturing, so as to comprehensively improve economic benefits and efficiency. Therefore, modern logistics is a strategic measure to meet the needs of consumers and unify the market conditions such as manufacturing, transportation and sales. Compared with traditional logistics, which only regards it as a bridge between logistics support system and sales activities, it has further meaning in depth and breadth.
In today's e-commerce era, the global logistics industry has a new development trend. The core goal of modern logistics service is to meet the needs of customers with the minimum comprehensive cost in the whole logistics process.
Modern logistics has the following characteristics: the close combination of e-commerce and logistics; Modern logistics is the unity of logistics, information flow, capital flow and talent flow; E-commerce logistics is a combination of informationization, automation, networking, intelligence and flexibility; Standardization of logistics facilities and commodity packaging, socialization and assimilation of logistics are also new characteristics of logistics mode under e-commerce.
The continuous development of e-commerce makes the logistics industry rise again. At present, the services provided by the logistics industry in the United States have far exceeded warehousing, distribution and transportation. Logistics companies provide more and more warehousing, distribution facilities, maintenance services, electronic tracking and other value-added services. Logistics service providers are becoming customer service centers, processing and maintenance centers, information processing centers and financial centers. Adding new services according to customers' needs is an evolving concept.
Compared with the logistics industry in developed countries, the logistics industry in China is still in the primary stage of development. The main characteristics of its development are: first, enterprise logistics is still the focus of logistics activities in the whole society, and the demand for specialized logistics services begins to appear, which shows that the development level of logistics activities in China is still relatively low, and strengthening internal logistics management is still the focus of logistics activities in the whole society; Second, specialized logistics enterprises began to appear, and diversified logistics services developed to a certain extent. It is an urgent task for the development of China's logistics industry to step out of the logistics activity mode based on enterprise self-service and develop third-party logistics.
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The source of "logistics"
According to the records of Japan Logistics Management Association, Japan's economy basically recovered to the level before World War II after 1950s. Enterprises have carried out large-scale equipment investment and transformation, the technical level has been continuously improved, and the productivity has been greatly improved. The production headquarters was established in 1955. In order to improve the production efficiency in the circulation field and ensure the smooth operation and development of the economy, the group organized a large-scale investigation team headed by Kazuo Izawa to visit the United States in the autumn of 1956. At that time, the word "logistics" did not exist in Japan, and the name of the delegation was "professional investigation team of circulation technology". During the delegation's stay in the United States, Mr. Kembas, a famous American professor, said that one of the reasons for the smooth development of the national economy in the United States in the past 30 years is that it attaches importance to both production efficiency and circulation efficiency. Meiye really realized the importance of logistics around 1950. Prior to this, it only paid attention to sales, and only regarded logistics activities such as transportation, storage, packaging and loading and unloading as auxiliary activities of sales. The Japanese circulation technology investigation team also found in the United States that Japan used to call circulation technology, such as transportation packaging, and Americans called PHY ... >; & gt
Question 7: What kind of car does the logistics company use? It still depends on the specific business of the logistics company. Different businesses have different requirements for vehicles. General import and export container trucks, domestic trunk long-distance ordinary trains, 65,438+00 tons, 20 tons, 5 tons and so on. In addition, some special industries, such as automobile logistics, specialize in pulling carts and need special vehicles for transportation. For example, frozen food logistics requires vehicles to have frozen preservation functions, as well as dangerous goods and chemicals. All these different businesses have the same requirements for vehicles, so it depends on the specific logistics company services.
Question 8: What are the profit sources of logistics companies? What are the profit sources created by logistics?
The motive force for the development of third-party logistics is to create profits for customers and themselves. Third-party logistics companies must meet customers' needs with attractive services, and the service level must meet customers' expectations. In order for customers to make profits in logistics, they should also make profits themselves. Therefore, third-party logistics companies must create profits through efficient logistics operation, informationization of logistics management, modernization of logistics facilities, specialization of logistics operation and scale of logistics volume.
(1) Operating income: Third-party logistics services can first provide customers with logistics operation improvement income. On the one hand, third-party logistics companies can provide logistics services or production factors that customers cannot provide themselves through third-party logistics services, which is an important reason for the emergence and development of logistics outsourcing. In the case that enterprises organize their own logistics activities, or are limited to the professional knowledge or their own technical conditions, it is difficult for enterprises to meet the needs of their own logistics activities, and it is often uneconomical for enterprises to improve or solve this problem by themselves. Another improvement of logistics operation is to improve the operation performance of enterprise internal management, increase the flexibility of operation, improve the consistency of quality and service, speed and service, and make logistics operation more efficient.
(2) Economic benefits: Third-party logistics services provide customers with economic or financial benefits, which is the basis for the existence of third-party logistics services. Generally speaking, low cost is created by low-cost factors and economies of scale, including the cost of labor factors. Through logistics outsourcing, we can change the cost from no cost to variable cost, avoid blind investment, divert funds for other purposes and reduce costs.
Stable and visible costs are also positive factors affecting logistics outsourcing. When stabilizing costs, planning and budgeting procedures are simpler. Generally speaking, it is difficult to clearly distinguish the cost of one link from the cost of other links, but through logistics outsourcing and the use of third-party logistics services, suppliers must explain the costs and expenses, and the clarity of costs will increase.
(3) Management benefits: Third-party logistics services will not only improve operations and reduce costs, but also bring management-related benefits to customers. As mentioned above, logistics outsourcing can make use of management expertise that enterprises do not have, and can also use internal management resources for other more profitable purposes, which is consistent with the core strategy of enterprises. Logistics outsourcing can make the company's human resources more focused on the company's core activities, while gaining the core business capabilities of other companies (third-party logistics companies).
In addition, the benefits of a single resource and the reduction of the number of suppliers are also potential reasons for logistics outsourcing. A single resource reduces the expenditure of public relations and reduces the pressure on the company to coordinate among several transportation, handling and warehousing service providers. Third-party logistics services can bring many management benefits to customers, such as: information management of orders, avoiding work interruption, collaborative operation and so on.
(4) Strategic benefits: Logistics outsourcing can also produce strategic significance and flexibility. Including the flexibility of geographical blockade (setting or canceling) and the flexibility of adjustment according to environmental changes. Focusing on the main business is equally important at the management level and the strategic level. * * * The income from taking risks can also be obtained through third-party logistics services.
Operational Value of Third Party Logistics
The challenge faced by third-party logistics service providers is to provide higher value than customers' own logistics operations. They should not only consider the competition of similar service providers, but also look at the internal operation of potential customers. Third-party logistics providers generally need to create operational value from three aspects: improving logistics operation efficiency, integrating with customer operation and developing customer operation.
(1) Improve operational efficiency
Improving the efficiency of logistics operation means developing every activity (such as transportation and storage) that eventually forms logistics. For example, the operational efficiency of warehousing depends on adequate facilities and skilled operation skills. Another more advanced role within the scope of operational efficiency is to coordinate continuous logistics activities. In addition to operational skills, coordination and communication skills are also needed. The ability of coordination and communication is largely related to information technology, and a person's coordination and communication is generally realized through the tool of information technology. If there are favorable cost factors and the company focuses on logistics, it is very likely to provide better services at lower cost.
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Question 9: What is the business scope of a logistics company? Business scope of logistics company:
Commodity transportation, distribution, warehousing, packaging, handling, circulation production and related logistics information.
Operating consulting services means that it is a general information consulting enterprise, and its main industry has nothing to do with logistics and cannot be audited.
If the main business scope is to provide logistics information services, the name can be expressed as "logistics information", but it is not appropriate to simply use "logistics" as an industry expression.
Some are domestic freight forwarding companies and some are foreign logistics companies.
Question 10: What is the goal of the logistics company? The goal of ILM is to maximize the overall performance of enterprise logistics management by coordinating the conflict between minimum total cost, best customer service, minimum total inventory and best product quality. ① The total cost is the smallest. Usually, logistics costs such as ordering cost, transportation cost, storage cost and inventory cost are interrelated. Therefore, in order to achieve effective logistics management, we must regard the logistics system as an organic whole, and achieve a high degree of balance between physical supply, manufacturing support and physical distribution. In this sense, the goal of minimum total cost does not mean the minimum cost of transportation or inventory, or any other logistics activities, but the minimum sum of all costs related to logistics activities. ② Customer service is the best. To establish an efficient logistics system, we must consider both logistics cost and customer service level, and handle the relationship between them. Based on the idea of system integration, in ILM system, manufacturing industry is the customer of physical supply, while logistics is the customer of manufacturing industry. Therefore, the main goal of ILM is to optimize the customer service of the whole ILM system at the lowest total cost. ③ The total inventory is the least. In other words, while achieving the goal of ILM system, we should control the inventory at the lowest level. "Zero inventory" reflects the ideal state of this goal. Therefore, the realization of this goal depends on the realization of the optimal control of the inventory level and inventory change of the whole enterprise, not just the minimization of the inventory of a single profit center. ④ The product quality is the best. Under the condition of market economy, the quality of enterprise products is directly related to the success or failure of enterprises. If after all the logistics processes are completed, it is found that the products produced have quality defects, which means that all the costs will not be compensated by any value, which will lead to the damage of the enterprise. Therefore, achieving and maintaining a high level of product quality is also an important goal of ILM. In order to achieve this goal, we must start with zero-defect physical supply and optimize the quality of the whole process of ILM.