What stages did the development of logistics management go through?

Logistics industry is a compound service industry integrating transportation, warehousing, freight forwarding, information and other industries, and it is a basic and strategic industry supporting the transformation and upgrading of manufacturing industry. Accelerating the development of intelligent logistics industry is of great significance for promoting the adjustment of industrial structure, changing the development mode and upgrading the service manufacturing industry. The Government Work Report 2020 takes "two innovations and one outstanding" as the key task in 2020. Logistics industry is an important field of the integration and development of new infrastructure and traditional transportation industry. Intelligent logistics driven by scientific and technological innovation is the main direction of industry development. From the investment and financing of logistics industry, logistics technology is the focus of capital market.

Logistics refers to the physical flow of goods from the place of supply to the place of receipt, which organically combines the basic functions of transportation, storage, loading and unloading, handling, packaging, distribution processing, distribution and information processing according to actual needs.

Development stage of logistics industry

From the point of view of science and technology, the development of logistics industry in China has gone through the stages of mechanization and automation, and has now developed to the stage of intelligent development.

In the mechanization stage, logistics machinery and equipment have been invented and put into logistics activities one after another, but there are few applications of computers in logistics management, few automatic control systems, and automatic three-dimensional library has been applied in limited fields; In the automation stage, the automatic three-dimensional library is gradually applied, and AGV technology and a series of management systems are born. In the intelligent stage, the production logistics system taking Industry 4.0 as an opportunity has been widely used, and technologies such as robots, drones and "goods to people" have emerged one after another, and various traditional technologies and emerging technologies have begun to merge. At this stage, modern information technologies such as Internet, big data, cloud computing and artificial intelligence have become the mainstream.

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