What is the purpose of logistics companies?

The goal of logistics companies is to be efficient, economical, fast, convenient and safe.

Logistics companies (English: logistics companies) are a type of companies, generally referring to companies engaged in transportation, warehousing, distribution and other logistics-related industries. Logistics companies often play the roles of goods collection, tally, inventory and distribution. Between suppliers and retailers. Therefore, logistics companies sometimes run the role of big sellers. For suppliers, logistics companies can reduce the cost of transportation and storage, and goods can be shipped directly in the warehouse of the logistics center without maintaining a huge warehouse to accumulate goods or a huge freight and distribution fleet, which is beneficial to small and medium-sized suppliers.

Logistics companies, also referred to as third-party logistics in English, or 3PL for short or TPL for short, are relative to the consignor of Party A and the consignee of Party B.. Third-party logistics does not belong to Party A or Party B, but provides its professional logistics services through cooperation with Party A or Party B.. It does not own goods or participate in the sales of goods, but provides customers with serialized, personalized and information-based logistics agency services based on contracts and alliances. The most common third-party logistics services include designing logistics system, EDI function, report management, cargo integration, carrier selection, freight forwarder, customs declaration agent, information management, warehousing, consulting, freight payment and freight negotiation. Because the way of service is generally to sign a logistics service contract with enterprises for a certain period of time, some people call logistics companies "contract logistics".