What does logistics include? What kinds of logistics are there?

Cold chain logistics refers to a systematic project that frozen food is always in a specified low temperature environment in all aspects of production, storage, transportation, sales and consumption to ensure food quality and reduce food loss.

It is established with the progress of science and technology and the development of refrigeration technology, and it is a low-temperature logistics process based on refrigeration technology. It is a special form of logistics that requires special equipment, and attention should be paid to transportation process, time control, transportation type and logistics cost.

2. Agile Logistics

Agile logistics is also called agile supply chain. ASC, and most logistics companies in China call it "five or six warehouses".

Focusing on the core logistics enterprises, Agile Logistics integrates suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, retailers and end users into a unified, fast-responding and seamless functional logistics network chain by using scientific and technological means to control capital flow, logistics and information flow, thus forming a highly competitive strategic alliance.

3. Military logistics

Military logistics refers to the logistics activities to meet the needs of the army in peacetime and wartime. Its main purpose is to ensure the victory of military operations. This is obviously different from local logistics, which aims at cost or service level.

Particularity of articles: mainly including weapons and equipment, ammunition, medical equipment, military daily necessities, etc. Confidentiality and effectiveness of logistics activities. In most cases, the troops use their own transportation and storage equipment to complete the logistics activities of military airports, docks and stations. Therefore, military logistics and civilian logistics are actually a unified large system.

4. Electronic commerce

E-commerce logistics, also known as online logistics, is a new business model based on internet technology, aiming at creatively promoting the development of logistics industry. Through the internet, logistics companies can be actively found by shippers and customers in a wider range, and can expand their business nationwide or even globally; Trading companies and factories can find the most cost-effective logistics company faster.

Online logistics is committed to attracting the largest number of cargo owners' enterprises with logistics needs and logistics companies providing logistics services in the world, providing a neutral, honest and free online logistics trading market, and helping logistics supply and demand sides to reach transactions efficiently.

More and more customers have found customers, partners and overseas agents through the online logistics trading market. The greatest value provided by online logistics is more opportunities.

The arrival of e-commerce era has brought new development to global logistics, which has a series of new characteristics: informationization, automation, networking, intelligence, flexibility and green logistics. Nowadays, crowdsourcing logistics mode has also appeared in e-commerce logistics besides self-operated mode, alliance mode and third-party logistics.

5. Cloud logistics

Third-party logistics is adopted to form a strategic alliance and promote logistics integration. The cooperation between e-commerce and logistics has formed a light company and light assets model, a vertical integration model, a semi-outsourcing model and a cloud logistics and cloud warehousing model.

E-commerce and logistics can be described as "as close as lips and teeth". In the logistics industry, seamless strategic cooperation may be the best result. This will not only give full play to their respective advantages, but also give consideration to each other's interests.

6. Virtual logistics

Virtual logistics refers to the use of computer network technology for logistics operation and management to realize the sharing and optimal allocation of logistics resources among enterprises.

Virtual logistics is the virtual integration of enterprise warehouses distributed all over the world into a large-scale logistics support system by using increasingly perfect communication network technology and means, so as to complete the fast, accurate and stable material support task and meet the multi-frequency and small-batch ordering demand of the logistics market.

Virtual logistics is of great significance to small and medium-sized enterprises. In the era of e-commerce, logistics informatization is an inevitable requirement of e-commerce. In China, it will take a long time to popularize automation technology because of the late start and low development level of logistics industry.

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Related industry

With the development of commodity economy, warehousing industry is a special industry that has grown from warehousing industry. Since modern times, the warehousing industry has developed day by day, because with the expansion of international and regional trade, the warehousing industry can provide convenient, safe and reasonable storage services for large quantities of goods. Therefore, the warehousing contract is no longer treated as a general custody contract, but is stipulated in the contract law as an independent and famous contract.

The warehousing contract has the following characteristics:

1. The custodian must be a person with warehouse business qualifications, that is, a person who has warehouse facilities and storage equipment and specializes in warehouse storage business. This is an important feature of the warehouse contract subject.

2. The object of a warehousing contract is only movable property, and immovable property cannot be the object of a warehousing contract.

3. The warehousing contract is a commitment contract. The warehousing contract shall take effect as of the date of establishment.

4. Warehousing contract is optional, which can be written or oral.

5. The warehousing contract is a two-service paid contract. The depository shall provide the obligation of safekeeping, and the depositor shall bear the obligation of paying the safekeeping fee.

Warehouse receipt is an important feature of warehouse contract.

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