Modern logistics management

Author: Cai Qiming / Zhang Qing (editors)
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: After China's entry into the WTO, the speed of foreign investment entering China accelerated, posing urgent demands for the development of China's logistics industry. It is particularly encouraging that the logistics industry has become a new investment direction for foreign capital, such as building chain supermarket distribution centers, logistics infrastructure construction, investment in procurement centers, establishing Sino-foreign joint venture logistics companies, and involving IT logistics, etc. As a new industrial sector of the national economy, the logistics industry will become an important industry in this century and a new growth point for the national economy. The writing of this book is guided by the principle of combining theory with practice, integrating logistics management with information technology, tracking the latest international achievements and development trends, and primarily aimed at cultivating logistics enterprise management talents. This book is suitable for postgraduate and undergraduate students in universities as teaching materials, as well as for logistics personnel in enterprises as reference books. The structure and content of this book strive to form their own distinctive features. The content of this book is divided into twelve chapters. To Chapter 3 covers the basic theories of logistics; Chapters 4 and 5 focus on logistics development strategies; Chapters 6 and 7 cover traditional logistics management theories and techniques; Chapters 8 to 12 discuss modern logistics management theories and supporting technologies. The content and arrangement of the entire book fully reflect advancedness, systematicity, and practicality.