What is logistics management? What do you do?

Logisticsmanagement refers to the planning, organization, command, coordination, control and supervision of logistics activities in the process of social reproduction, according to the laws of material entity flow, so as to achieve the best coordination and cooperation of various logistics activities, thereby reducing logistics costs and improving logistics efficiency and economic benefits. Modern logistics management is based on system theory, information theory and cybernetics.

There are four main characteristics:

(1), with customer satisfaction as the first goal;

(2) Taking the overall optimization of the enterprise as the goal;

(3) taking information as the center;

(4) Pay more attention to efficiency than effect.

Don't worry about the future of this industry. Academically, logistics is considered as the third profit source of enterprises. Besides the traditional manufacturing and processing industries with comparative advantages, China's economic development focuses on service industries, such as communication, finance, education and, of course, our logistics.

Let's not talk about the macro, just say whether this major has a future, but all successful enterprises must have their own successful logistics escort system (KFC, Wal-Mart, Haier). How can you market your products if the logistics is blocked? Who dares to do business with you if the goods are not well distributed? Now all enterprises attach unprecedented importance to logistics.

There are also third-party professional logistics companies, such as COSCO, Sinotrans and Minmetals in China, DHL and Fixed abroad. These companies are mainly outsourcing services for postal express delivery, multimodal transport of goods, freight forwarding, shipping agency or internal distribution of some companies, and their profits are considerable. In addition, foreign companies such as DHL and FEXED have entered the mainland market by backdoor in China, and the country is about to be fully liberalized, breaking the monopoly of domestic established state-owned enterprises. This is definitely good for us. Although the competition is fierce, it is a competition between services and talents. This is a very realistic problem. Who will foreign companies use to make money when they come to China? They don't have to use us in China! ! Even if you don't want to work in a foreign company, state-owned enterprises still take a lot of money, and there is room for personal career development. Even if you don't want to work in these professional third-party logistics enterprises, where can you find logistics talents in manufacturing (household appliances, heavy industry, IT hardware) and textile (you can go to 51job zhaopin.com and your favorite corporate homepage)?

It is also wise for students majoring in computer or e-commerce to take the postgraduate entrance examination for logistics. If you want to develop in the IT software industry, with your computer background after graduating with a master's degree in logistics, you can engage in logistics system planning (customer demand analysis and pre-system analysis) of ERP system or financial system in a software company, or be a professional logistics management software.

However, personally, I feel that I really want to engage in this industry. When I was in graduate school, I didn't have to major in logistics (on the contrary, the logistics major in some schools is nonsense now, and the courses are in a mess, and I don't even understand what logistics is all about). Business English, international trade, shipping, air transport and transportation are all acceptable. This industry needs people now, and IT is progressing well (just like the IT industry in the middle and late 1990s). Zhongguancun directly advertised "recruitment for C language 1000 yuan, C language ++VB 1500 yuan". Hehe, now, regular computers don't work. No matter what major you study, you must get a British logistics certificate at school (the logistics certificate of the Ministry of Labor is ok, but it is not as hard as the British certification and not much cheaper), and then you can play English. Don't fool yourself with CET-4 and CET-6 certificates. My works are basically in English. Sometimes, if my certificate is wrong, I may go to jail. Oh, that's a bit of an exaggeration. Basically, it is easier to find a good job after graduation. (Ha ha, much better than other students. There are so many accounting graduates in China, but how many of them are the Big Four? So many computer graduates, how many went to Microsoft and Cisco? Now is a good time for us to catch up and cherish it, but in two years, it may be almost the same as computers and finance. Now the university enrolls more students every year. I wonder how many people will compete with us.