Main characteristics of logistics standardization

The main features of logistics standardization are as follows:

1. Different from the general standardization system, the standardization of logistics system involves a wider range, and its objects are not as single as the general standardization system, but include electromechanical, architecture, tools, working methods and so on. Although it is in a large system, it lacks the characteristics of * * *, which leads to a wide variety of standards and complex content, and also brings great difficulties to the unification and cooperation of standards.

2. The logistics standardization system belongs to the secondary system. This is because the idea of logistics and logistics management was born late, and the subsystems that make up the logistics system have already realized the standardization of this system before being classified into the logistics system. And after years of application, continuous development and consolidation, it has been difficult to change. When carrying out logistics standardization, it must be based on this. Although the old standardization system can be overthrown and a new standardization system can be rebuilt according to the requirements of the logistics system, the logistics standardization system is usually based on the standardization of each subsystem. This will inevitably establish a new logistics standardization system from the perspective of adaptation and coordination, and it is impossible to completely innovate.

3. Logistics standardization requires more scientific, democratic and economical. Science, democracy and economy are the "three natures" of the standard. Due to the particularity of logistics standardization, these three characteristics must be highlighted in order to do this standardization work well. The requirement of scientificity is to reflect the achievements of modern science and technology and take scientific experiments as the basis. In logistics, it is also required to adapt to the modernization of logistics (including modern technology and management) and link modern scientific and technological achievements into a large logistics system. Otherwise, although various specific hard technologies are very demanding and advanced, even the highest single technology is empty if it cannot be coordinated with the system. It even has the opposite effect. Therefore, this scientific nature is not only reflected in its own scientific and technological level, but also in its ability to coordinate and adapt, so that the comprehensive scientific and technological level can be optimized.

Democracy refers to the formulation of standards, adopting consensus, extensively considering various realistic conditions and listening to opinions, and not overemphasizing a certain country, so as to make standards more authoritative, reduce resistance and be easy to implement. Because logistics standardization involves a wide range, it is more important to coordinate and adapt, decide the problem democratically, and not be biased towards one aspect so that all subsystems can adopt it.

Economy is one of the main purposes of standardization, and it is also the decisive factor of standardization vitality. The logistics process does not produce great value-added products like deep processing, even if it passes through distribution processing, the value-added is limited. Therefore, a little more logistics cost will affect the efficiency. However, the logistics process must be heavily invested and consumed. If we don't pay attention to the economy of standards, unilaterally emphasize the reflection of modern scientific level, and unilaterally obey the logistics habits and status quo, it will lead to the increase of logistics costs and naturally make standards lose their vitality.

4. Logistics standardization is very international. Due to the trend of economic globalization, international exchanges have greatly increased, and all international trade is ultimately completed through international logistics. Every country attaches great importance to the connection between its own logistics and international logistics, and strives to make its own logistics standards consistent with the international logistics standardization system at the early stage of its own logistics management development. If not, it will not only increase the technical difficulty of international communication, but more importantly, it will increase the loss of interests brought about by the disunity of standardization system and increase the cost of foreign trade on the basis of already high tariffs and freight. Therefore, the internationalization of logistics standardization is also an important feature different from general product standards.

5. Implement the principle of safety and insurance. Logistics security is also a very prominent problem in recent years. Often a safety accident will make a company lose all its money, and it is not uncommon for hundreds of thousands of tons of supertankers and freighters to suffer losses. Of course, in addition to economic losses, personal injuries often occur in logistics, such as traffic accidents, collision of goods, explosion of dangerous goods, corrosion and poisoning. Therefore, another feature of logistics standardization is to standardize logistics safety and reliability in logistics standards and unify technical standards and working standards of safety and reliability.

The specification of logistics insurance is also the standardization content related to safety and reliability standards. In logistics, especially in international logistics, there are internationally recognized insurance risks and insurance clauses. Although many regulations appear not in the form of standardization, but in the form of legislation, their nature of * * * agreement and * * * respect is universal and includes standardization. Many procedures, declarations and documents have specific standardized provisions, and the calculation of insurance costs is also subject to the standard provisions.