Enterprise logistics management

Author: Wan Zhijian / Shan Hua (editors)
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: First-tier managers talk about logistics, second-tier managers discuss management, and third-tier managers focus on credentials. China's logistics cost is 18, compared to 7.8 in developed economies in Europe and America, a difference of 10.2 percentage points. In today's global economic integration, logistics has become a bottleneck restricting the development of countries, cities, and enterprises. In the next decade, the international competitiveness of Chinese cities and enterprises will primarily be reflected in the competition of logistics costs. Logistics has become the industry with the most development potential in China. Logistics management talent has been listed as the top of the 12 categories of in-demand professionals by the government and economically developed cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Cultivating logistics management talent, applying advanced modern logistics technology, scientifically and rationally planning and building logistics systems, improving logistics efficiency, and reducing logistics costs have become key to China's economic growth, urban development, and enterprises' participation in international competition. In the knowledge economy era, in the smokeless battlefield of market competition, the way for professional managers to remain invincible is to learn, understand, and master the logistics technology and management methods of successful multinational enterprises, broaden their horizons, and enhance their management skills and innovative capabilities. The National Logistics Professional Manager Certification Training Series Textbooks are the result of case teaching and practical experience in logistics professional management. The content is systematic, applicable, and highly targeted, providing references for all professional managers to grasp the key points when entering or engaging with a new logistics industry. They serve as a guiding tool for business owners engaged in logistics operations or professional managers working in corporate logistics, as well as an internal management training reference manual. They can also be used as important reference materials for logistics management researchers. The National Logistics Professional Manager Certification Training Series Textbooks are divided into four parts:
Part 1: Logistics Basic Management
Focuses on the essential qualities that logistics professional managers should possess: awareness, concepts, attitudes, knowledge, and skills. It also introduces the development history and trends of international and domestic logistics management, as well as the fundamental management knowledge of logistics systems, logistics standardization, and logistics management systems.
Part 2: Logistics Technology Management
Focuses on the hard and soft technologies supporting logistics and its management processes: warehousing technology, transportation technology, loading and unloading and handling technology, logistics information technology, logistics system decision-making, control, evaluation technology, and logistics cost management, etc.
Part 3: Enterprise Logistics Management
From the perspective of logistics application, it focuses on enterprise logistics processes: procurement logistics management, production logistics management, sales logistics management, and supply chain management and applications.
Part 4: Logistics Enterprise Management
Focuses on the organization of logistics enterprises (specifically transportation, warehousing, and third-party logistics industries), third-party logistics, logistics distribution, logistics marketing and customer service, and logistics enterprise operation management.
Chapter 1
Briefly introduces the concept, content, and characteristics of enterprise logistics. It focuses on explaining the meaning, content, and rationalization of enterprise logistics management. The course objective is to help learners master the basic principles and applications of enterprise logistics rationalization.
Chapter 2
Briefly introduces the concept of procurement logistics and modern procurement concepts. It focuses on explaining inventory control, supplier management, and order point technology. The course objective is to help learners master the principles and methods of inventory control, inventory and material handling plans, supplier investigation and assessment, and the principles and methods of order point procurement.
Chapter 3
Focuses on the principles of MRP procurement, JIT procurement, kanban technology, supply chain procurement principles and characteristics, procurement organization, and its functions. The course objective is to help learners master the application and promotion of MRP, JIT, and supply chain procurement technologies in enterprise procurement logistics management and procurement decision-making.
Chapter 4
Briefly introduces the concept of enterprise production logistics. The positioning and organizational forms of enterprise production logistics. It focuses on explaining logistics management under different production models, deeply elaborating on the Just-In-Time (JIT) production system and MRP, as well as Goldratt's production methods. The course objective is to help learners learn and master the application of production logistics management technologies such as MRP, MRPII, ERP, JIT production logistics operation models, and manufacturing synchronization and constraint theory.
Chapter 5
Briefly introduces the concept of sales logistics. The channels and main links of enterprise sales logistics. It focuses on explaining enterprise sales distribution and rationalization methods of sales logistics. The course objective is to help learners learn and master the transportation decisions of sales logistics and focus on the application of rationalization methods.
Chapter 6
Briefly introduces the concept, types, and structure of enterprise supply chains. It focuses on explaining the basic theories, strategic issues, organizational issues, and basic information technology of supply chain management, as well as supply chain management technologies including production operation technology and logistics technology. The course objective is to help learners master the basic knowledge of supply chain management and the principles and steps of implementing supply chain management, with a focus on mastering supply chain structure, design, the implementation of supply chain strategic management, and the application of supply chain management operational technology.
Key Points:
- Enterprise logistics concept, procurement logistics management, production logistics and JIT distribution, distribution logistics management, enterprise logistics system case analysis, inventory management, logistics business outsourcing and third-party logistics are key knowledge points for junior, middle, and senior logistics managers;
- Logistics business process planning, logistics service quality control system planning, logistics cost calculation and quotation, partner selection, main link operation process planning, and logistics solution case analysis are key knowledge points for senior logistics managers.