What are the causes of logistics?

Most production and circulation enterprises do not have the ability to control the long-distance transportation cost of goods, thus producing the service of "logistics".

At present, the logistics services in our country are all carried out by logistics companies, which has many reasons.

1, advantages of specialization

Logistics enterprises have accumulated professional knowledge for different logistics markets, including transportation, warehousing and other value-added services. Compared with ordinary production and circulation enterprises, it is easier and more economical to obtain many key logistics information, such as truck flow, international documents, air freight quotations and so on.

2. Advantages of information technology

Modern information technology is the lifeline of modern logistics, and many logistics companies are deeply aware of this. They form an alliance with independent software suppliers to develop internal information systems, so that they can make maximum use of transportation and distribution networks, effectively track goods, conduct electronic transactions, generate reports and carry out other related value-added services.

3. Advantages of economies of scale in operational integration.

First, introduce multi-customer operation or resource sharing among customers. For example, a multi-customer integrated warehousing and transportation network can use similar combined resources to realize the purpose of * * * storage, centralized stowage and * * * distribution of goods in off-season and peak season, and avoid the problem of unbalanced empty return and busy warehouse operation. The scale benefit of comprehensive operation has become an important means to improve efficiency.

Secondly, effective horizontal integration. For example, logistics enterprises can share resource information, use each other's distribution network and load together. Logistics enterprises can also purchase logistics resources economically from transportation companies or storage companies. The cooperation between logistics enterprises improves the logistics service ability, reduces the logistics operation cost and realizes economies of scale.

Extended data:

Outsourcing logistics to logistics enterprises by production and circulation enterprises can not only directly share the achievements brought by the improvement of logistics efficiency, but also indirectly obtain many other benefits:

1, which is beneficial to concentrate on developing core competitiveness.

In the case of limited resources, in order to obtain and maintain the dominant position in the competition, enterprises must adopt the strategy of doing something different. By introducing logistics, enterprises can concentrate their limited manpower, material resources and financial resources on their core business, and concentrate on research and development of core technologies and new products, so that their core competitiveness is getting stronger and stronger, and their core business is getting bigger and bigger, which competitors cannot surpass and replace.

2, is conducive to improving the level of enterprise logistics management.

For many enterprises, logistics is an auxiliary business, which has not received due attention and is often inefficient and out of control. For example, the warehouses of many domestic production and circulation enterprises are managed by local sales departments, and the on-site management of warehouses is chaotic. In order to ensure the high level of sales inventory, and the inventory information between them is not shared, there are even loopholes such as inconsistent accounts and cards. Due to limited energy and lack of talents, it is difficult for enterprises to solve these problems by themselves.

Logistics enterprises can give full play to their professional advantages, optimize the existing logistics network of production and circulation enterprises, create a tailor-made integrated logistics system for them, and send special personnel to guide and even directly manage warehouse site and distribution operations in time, thus greatly improving the logistics management level of production and circulation enterprises.

3. It is beneficial to improve logistics operation efficiency and reduce logistics cost.

Because logistics enterprises have a huge and reasonably distributed logistics network, rich knowledge and experience in logistics management and advanced logistics management information system, they can provide timely logistics information for production and circulation enterprises and greatly improve the efficiency of ordering, delivery and distribution. Production and circulation enterprises can share the advantages of economies of scale brought by the integration of logistics enterprises and greatly reduce the logistics costs of enterprises.

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