What does vehicle logistics mean?

What does vehicle logistics mean? Let's have a look!

Vehicle logistics is an agile vehicle supply chain environment based on time competition, with vehicles as the standard of logistics service. According to the requirements of customer orders on delivery date, delivery place and quality assurance, vehicle logistics can respond quickly and deliver on time. Vehicle logistics has changed from simple commodity transportation to a new type of logistics with transportation as the main body, supplemented by warehousing, distribution and terminal value-added services.

Vehicle logistics has different opinions in various countries and automobile industry: Japan calls it "vehicle logistics" and "finished vehicle logistics", but there is actually used vehicle logistics called "medieval vehicle logistics"; Britain and the United States are also called "Finishedvehiclelogistics", "vehiclelogistics" and "Vehicletransport".

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The automobile logistics industry in China started in the 1990s, developed with the gradual development of China automobile industry, followed closely by the development of China automobile industry, and experienced the gradual development and upgrading from scratch, from superficial to professional, from passive imitation to active innovation. The classification of automobile logistics is as follows:

1. According to the design and technical characteristics of automobile logistics, automobile logistics can be divided into passenger car logistics, commercial vehicle logistics, special vehicle logistics and engineering vehicle logistics.

2. According to the characteristics of vehicle service life, vehicle logistics can be divided into commercial vehicle logistics, used car logistics and antique car logistics.

3. According to the characteristics of automobile logistics transportation, automobile logistics transportation modes can be divided into land transportation, air transportation and water transportation.

4. Land transportation can be divided into road transportation and railway transportation; Water car logistics can be divided into container car logistics transportation and ro-ro car logistics transportation.

What is the core of vehicle logistics?

The core of automobile logistics is based on supply chain management and comprehensive management. The core of vehicle logistics is to reduce links, minimize costs, the highest service quality and the cheapest price, and meet the demand for supply and demand. Integrating all aspects of the supply chain through effective information technology and systems can optimize the whole process of planning, manufacturing and transportation, integrate the automobile logistics service supply chain, improve logistics efficiency and reduce logistics costs.