2. Services to speed up response
3. Services to reduce costs
4. Extended services
Logistics is the basis and prerequisite for e-commerce
E-commerce is a commodity trading activity on the Internet, due to the purchase and sale of the online transaction of the two sides have a certain spatial distance. And buyers are generally not willing to run far to pick up their own goods, so the supplier must find ways to deliver the goods to the hands of the user in order to finalize an e-commerce business activities. As online negotiation, online payment, etc. are easy to realize online, so logistics has become the basis and prerequisite for e-commerce. Because logistics requires good planning and design, and need to have a high level of basic investment in building
Establishment, so it is believed that the current logistics has become a bottleneck in the development of e-commerce constraints. The world's largest online bookstore --- Amazon.com can be called the pioneer in the field of e-commerce, however, it also vaguely feel the existence of a strong rival: retail giant Wal-Mart has also started to get involved in online sales, although Wal-Mart only its website as a window for information browsing, and did not carry out online sales on a large scale, but Amazon.com has been the first company in the world to launch an e-commerce program. Although Wal-Mart only uses its website as a window for information browsing, and does not carry out online sales on a large scale, Amazon has seen that the biggest challenge comes from the fact that Wal-Mart has a worldwide distribution system of goods linked by satellite communications. Although Wal-Mart's online business was launched 3 years later than Amazon, however, Wal-Mart's online store to carry out delivery time is much earlier than Amazon. Once Amazon realized that this opponent's terrible, immediately catch up, a change to zero inventory known business style, began to build large-scale storage warehouses, and distribution centers around the world, with the logistics system to improve their online sales to add flowers.
Logistics modernization is the basis of e-commerce
E-commerce through fast, efficient means of information processing can be relatively easy to solve the problem of information flow (information exchange), business flow (transfer of ownership) and capital flow (payment). And the timely distribution of goods to the hands of users, that is, the completion of the spatial transfer of goods (logistics), only marking the end of the e-commerce process. Therefore, the efficiency of the logistics system is the key to the success of e-commerce, and logistics efficiency depends largely on the level of logistics modernization. Logistics modernization includes the modernization of logistics technology and logistics management. Modernization of logistics technology includes modernization of logistics soft technology and modernization of logistics hard technology. In terms of soft logistics technology, modernization includes: non-destructive testing and sampling inspection technology, commodity science and conservation technology, bar code technology, information processing technology, safe loading technology and so on. In terms of hard logistics technology, modernization includes: the development of highly automated warehouses, specialization and large-scale transportation equipment, diversification and combination of storage equipment, efficiency of loading and unloading equipment, and numerical control of information processing equipment. The modernization of logistics management is the application of modern management ideas, theories and methods, effective management of logistics, management personnel, management ideas, management organizations, management methods, management tools and other aspects of modernization,
and the modernization of these aspects of the content of the management function with the organic combination of the formation of modern logistics management system. The goal of modernization of logistics management is to achieve the overall optimization of the logistics system. The most important part of logistics modernization is logistics informatization. Logistics informatization is the basic requirement of e-commerce logistics, is an important part of enterprise informatization, manifested as the commoditization of logistics information, logistics information collection of data and code, logistics information processing of electronic and computerized, logistics information transfer standardization and real-time, logistics information storage of digital and so on. Logistics information technology can better coordinate production and sales, transportation, storage and other links in the link, to optimize the supply process, shorten the logistics time and reduce inventory are of great significance.
Logistics is the key to the realization of e-commerce
(1) logistics to protect the production
Rationalization and modernization of logistics, through the reduction of costs and thus reduce costs, optimize the inventory structure, reduce the funds accounted for, shorten the production cycle, to ensure that the modernization of the production of efficient. On the contrary, the lack of modernized logistics, production will be difficult to carry out smoothly, no matter how convenient e-commerce is a form of trade, will still be cooking without rice.
(2) logistics services in the flow of commerce
In the flow of commodities, commodity ownership from the moment the purchase and sale contract is signed, from the supply side to the demand side of the transfer, and the commodity entity is not therefore moved. In the traditional transaction process, in addition to non-physical delivery of futures transactions, the general flow of commerce are accompanied by the corresponding logistics activities, that is, in accordance with the requirements of the demand side (buyer) will be the commodity entity from the supply side (seller) to the demand side (buyer) to the appropriate way, the way to transfer. In the e-commerce environment, consumers click through the Internet shopping, completed the delivery process of commodity ownership, that is, the process of commercial flow. However, the activities of e-commerce are not over, only when the goods and services are really transferred to the hands of consumers, the business activities are completed. In the whole process of e-commerce transactions, logistics is actually a follow-up to the business flow and the posture of the service provider. Without modern logistics, how convenient business activities will be degraded to a piece of paper.
(3) logistics is the realization of the "customer-centric" concept of the fundamental guarantee
Lack of modern logistics system support, e-commerce to consumers to bring the convenience of shopping is equal to zero, consumers will inevitably turn to what they believe to be a more secure way of traditional shopping, online shopping has lost the basis for existence. The basis for the existence of online shopping is also lost. Therefore, logistics is e-commerce to achieve "customer-centric" concept of the ultimate guarantee.