What are the links of logistics?

1. Transportation: Logistics activities that use tools to transport goods from one place to another.

2. Storage: the activity of preserving goods and managing and controlling their quantity and quality. Play a role in buffering and adjusting the balance between supply and demand and balancing prices. It is called "reservoir" and "regulating valve".

3. Loading and unloading: changing the storage state and spatial position of articles, including activities such as loading, unloading, transferring, picking, sorting, stacking, warehousing and warehousing.

4. Packaging (industrial packaging and commercial packaging): protect commodities, facilitate storage and transportation, and promote sales. Work package mainly protects goods, facilitates centralized transportation and saves packaging costs. Commercial packaging: beautiful, practical and promoting sales.

5. Distribution processing: packaging, dividing, sorting, labeling, labeling, assembly and other operations are carried out as required.

6. Distribution: Distribution (selecting, processing, packaging, dividing and assembling goods). Send (the goods are delivered to the designated place on time.

7. Information processing: planning, forecasting, purchasing, production, market, cost and other information related to the above activities. It is convenient for enterprises to calculate the cost of logistics activities and optimize future logistics activities to save more logistics costs.

Extended data:

The basic principles are as follows:

1, the general principle of logistics management-logistics rationalization

There are many specific principles of logistics management, but the most fundamental guiding principle is to ensure the realization of logistics rationalization. The so-called rationalization of logistics is the process of adjusting and improving logistics equipment configuration and logistics activity organization to realize the overall optimization of logistics system. It is reflected in giving consideration to both cost and service, that is, obtaining acceptable logistics services at the lowest possible logistics cost or reaching the highest possible service level at the acceptable logistics cost.

2, the basic idea of logistics rationalization

There is often a trade-off relationship between various costs of logistics activities. A basic idea of logistics rationalization is the idea of "balance", which weighs the gains and losses from the perspective of total logistics cost. Do not seek limit, but seek balance, and balance makes rationality.

3. New challenges faced by logistics management

The emergence of many advanced information technologies has greatly promoted the great changes in the logistics industry. We can no longer use traditional concepts to understand logistics in the information age. Logistics is no longer a simple combination operation of logistics functions, it is already a network concept. Strengthening the connection efficiency of logistics nodes and strengthening the management efficiency of the system has become a key issue facing the whole logistics industry.

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