Main characteristics of logistics industry

1, rapid logistics reaction. Logistics service providers respond faster and faster to the demand of upstream and downstream logistics distribution, the lead time is shorter and shorter, the distribution interval is shorter and shorter, the logistics distribution speed is faster and faster, and the commodity turnover times are more and more.

2. Integration of logistics functions. Modern logistics focuses on the integration of logistics and other links in the supply chain, including the integration of logistics channels and commercial channels, the integration of logistics channels, the integration of logistics functions and the integration of logistics links and manufacturing links.

3. Serialization of logistics services. Modern logistics emphasizes the correct positioning, perfection and serialization of logistics service functions. In addition to traditional warehousing, transportation, packaging, distribution and processing services, modern logistics services extend upward to market research and forecasting, procurement and order processing, and downward to value-added services such as distribution, logistics consulting, logistics scheme selection and planning, inventory control strategy suggestion, payment recovery and settlement, education and training; In terms of connotation, it improves the supporting role of the above services in decision-making.

4. Standardization of logistics operations. Modern logistics emphasizes the standardization and stylization of functions, workflows, operations and actions, making complex operations simple actions that are easy to popularize and assess.

5. Systematize logistics objectives. Modern logistics is the overall planning of a company's various logistics activities from a systematic perspective, dealing with the relationship between logistics activities and business activities and company goals, and the relationship between logistics activities and logistics activities, not seeking the optimization of individual activities, but seeking the optimization of overall activities.

6. Modernization of logistics means. Modern logistics uses advanced technology, equipment and management to provide services for sales. The larger the scale and scope of production, circulation and sales, the more modern the logistics technology, equipment and management. Computer technology, communication technology, mechatronics technology and speech recognition technology are widely used. The most advanced logistics system in the world uses GPS (Global Positioning System), satellite communication, radio frequency identification device (RF) and robot, which realizes automation, mechanization, paperless and intelligence. For example, in the mid-1990s, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) adopted these technologies in its military logistics system for multinational forces carrying out peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia, and their technologies were the most complex and sophisticated in the world.

7. Logistics organization network. In order to provide rapid and all-round logistics support for product promotion, modern logistics needs a sound logistics network system, and the logistics activities between all points on the network remain systematic and consistent, which can ensure that the entire logistics network has the best inventory level and inventory distribution, and the transportation and distribution are fast and flexible, which can be dispersed and closed. Only by forming a network can dispersed logistics monomers meet the needs of modern production and circulation.

8. Marketization of logistics operation. The concrete operation of modern logistics adopts market mechanism. Whether the enterprise organizes logistics by itself or entrusts socialized logistics enterprises to undertake logistics tasks, the overall goal is the best cooperation of "service-cost". Whoever can provide the best combination of "service-cost" will be invited to serve. There are many excellent examples of "big and complete" and "small and complete" self-operated logistics in the world, and there are also many examples of using third-party logistics enterprises to provide logistics services. Comparatively speaking, the socialization and specialization of logistics have occupied the mainstream, and even non-socialized and non-specialized logistics organizations have implemented strict economic accounting.

9. Electronic logistics information. Due to the application of computer information technology, the visibility of modern logistics process is obviously increased, and the risks of inventory backlog, delayed delivery, untimely delivery and uncontrollable inventory and transportation in logistics process are greatly reduced, so that the coordination and cooperation among suppliers, logistics providers, wholesalers and retailers in organizing and controlling logistics process can be strengthened.