In today's e-commerce era, the global logistics industry has a new development trend. The core objective of modern logistics service is to meet the needs of customers in the whole process of logistics.
Now electricity demand rapid rise and industry, the demand for warehousing logistics distribution is an important link and requirements are constantly improve, the third party company in the market plays a more and more important role in the industry, and even be able to assist businesses in the terminal and channels provide a wide range of services. Service is more than just a simple shipment of this kind of enterprise, more important is to stand in the Angle of the merchants to do warehouse inventory distribution link, make the electricity overall process form the benign development.
Modern logistics has the following four characteristics:
1. The close integration of e-commerce and logistics;
2. Modern logistics is the unification of logistics, information flow, capital flow and talent flow;
3. E-commerce logistics is a combination of informatization, automation, network, intelligence and flexibility.
4. The standardization of logistics facilities and commodity packaging, the socialization of logistics and the integration of logistics are also new features of the logistics mode under e-commerce.
The five components of modern logistics information technology:
1. Barcode technology
2. EDI technology
3. Rf technology (RFID)
4.GIS technology (GIS)
5. GPS technology
With the continuous development of e-commerce, the logistics industry has reemerged, and the service content provided by the logistics industry in the United States has far exceeded the service of warehousing, distribution and transportation. The warehousing, distribution facilities, maintenance services, electronic tracking and other value-added services provided by logistics companies are increasing. Logistics service providers are becoming customer service centers, processing and maintenance centers, information processing centers and financial centers, and adding new services to customers' needs is a growing concept.
Compared with the developed countries in terms of logistics industry, the logistics industry in China is still in the initial stage of development, the development of its key features: one is the enterprise logistics is still the focus of the society as a whole logistics activity, the specialized logistics service demand has emerged, which indicates that the development of China's logistics activity level is relatively low, strengthen enterprise internal logistics management is still the focus of the society as a whole logistics activity; Second, specialized logistics enterprises began to emerge, diversified logistics services to a certain degree of development. It is an urgent task for China's logistics industry to get out of the mode of logistics activity dominated by enterprise self-service and develop third-party logistics. Third, the professional logistics started late, the Chinese logistics mall was launched, and still in the development stage. On June 8, 2011 the state council premier wen jiabao chaired a state council executive meeting, the deployment of the work to promote healthy development of the logistics industry, the meeting results agree that China must formulate supporting policies and measures to promote the healthy development of the logistics industry, and put forward at the meeting were eight aspects to promote the healthy development of the logistics, at the same time, the department of transportation issued the notice on toll roads special cleaning work, to further promote the development of logistics in China.