Logistics technology 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 boast about their credentials. China's logistics cost is 18, which is 10.2 percentage points higher than the 7.8 logistics cost in developed economies of Europe and America. 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 types of scarce talents by the state and economically developed cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen. Cultivating logistics management talent, applying high-tech modern logistics technology, scientifically planning and building logistics systems, improving logistics efficiency, and reducing logistics costs have become key to China's economic growth, urban operation 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 multinational corporations' successful operations and development, broaden their horizons, and enhance their management skills and innovative management capabilities.
The National Logistics Professional Manager Certification Training Series Textbooks are the results of case teaching and practical experience in logistics professional management. The content of the textbooks is systematic, applicable, and highly targeted, providing references for all professional managers to grasp the key points when they come into contact with or enter a brand-new logistics industry enterprise. They serve as guiding tools and internal management training reference materials for business owners engaged in logistics operations or professional managers involved in corporate logistics-related management work. At the same time, 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 explaining the basic qualities that a logistics professional manager 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 that a logistics professional manager should have.
Part 2: Logistics Technology Management focuses on explaining the logistics hard and soft technologies that support 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: Corporate Logistics Management focuses on explaining corporate logistics processes from the perspective of logistics application: procurement logistics management, production logistics management, sales logistics management, and supply chain management and applications.
Part 4: Logistics Enterprise Management focuses on explaining logistics enterprise organization, third-party logistics, logistics distribution, logistics marketing and customer service, and logistics enterprise operation management, etc.