What are the seven elements of logistics?

Generally speaking, the functional elements of logistics system include transportation, storage, packaging, loading and unloading, distribution and processing, distribution and logistics information.

If we look at the actual work of logistics activities, logistics consists of the above seven specific tasks.

Extended data:

1, transport functional elements

Including the supply and marketing of vehicles (roads, railways), ships, planes and other modes of transportation in logistics, and the transportation of pipelines and conveyor belts in production logistics. Which mode of transportation to choose is of great significance to logistics efficiency. Transportation is one of the most important functions of logistics.

2. Functional elements of packaging

Including the ex-factory packaging of products, the packaging of work-in-process and semi-finished products in the production process, the activities of changing clothes, repackaging and repackaging in the logistics process.

3. Loading and unloading functional components

Including transportation, storage, packaging, distribution processing and other logistics activities, as well as inspection, maintenance, maintenance and other activities in the storage of loading and unloading activities.

4, storage function elements

Including storage, storage, maintenance and maintenance activities.

5. Functional elements of distribution processing.

Also known as auxiliary processing activities in the circulation process.

6. Assign functional elements

As a modern circulation mode, distribution integrates management, service, social centralized inventory, sorting and loading and unloading, and is not included in a single distribution and transportation, so it is regarded as an independent functional element.

7. Functional elements of logistics information processing

In the process of logistics, with the development of logistics, a large number of information about input and output logistics structure, flow direction and direction, inventory dynamics, logistics costs, market intelligence and so on are generated and continuously transmitted and fed back, forming logistics information.

At the same time, using computer to process and obtain practical logistics information will help to understand and master logistics trends in time, coordinate all logistics links and organize logistics activities effectively.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Logistics Functional Elements