E-commerce logistics management

Author: Wei Xiujiang
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book is a professional textbook for e-commerce courses, written using a "general-specific-general" structural framework. First, it starts by introducing the relationship between logistics and e-commerce, leading to the relevant concepts of logistics. It also covers some information technologies involved in e-commerce logistics and discusses the basic knowledge of supply chain management from strategic and managerial perspectives. This serves as a background for the logistics functional elements introduced later, emphasizing that every element in the logistics system should be a part of the supply chain. Then, it separately introduces the functional elements of production logistics and sales logistics (including procurement, inventory, handling and loading, warehousing, packaging, transportation, and distribution), as well as international logistics. Finally, it provides an overall introduction to the operational models of logistics, service and cost management, as well as future trends in logistics.