What's the difference between logistics and transportation?

With the development of logistics, its management content has extended from the inside to the outside of the enterprise, and enterprises have begun to pay attention to the study of external relations, including relations with distributors, customers, suppliers and third parties. The external relationship of an enterprise is not a simple one-dimensional linear relationship of "supplier-production-customer", but a multidimensional and complex three-dimensional relationship, which has an increasingly important influence on the performance of an enterprise in the market. Integrated logistics management means that enterprises apply advanced technology to manage these relationships at a higher level. Logistics technologies such as electronic data interchange (EDI), just-in-time production (JIT), and distribution demand planning (DRP) are constantly emerging and have been greatly applied and developed, which also provides strong technical support and guarantee for logistics to enter the integrated management stage. For example, optimizing the management of suppliers can greatly reduce the cost of enterprises, because suppliers can avoid the cost of material maintenance and order processing in integrated logistics management, and these costs will eventually enter the procurement cost of materials.