Logistics Cost Management and Control: 21st Century Undergraduate Applied Economics and Management Planning Textbook · Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Author: Bao Xinzhong
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: The author combines years of research and teaching experience in logistics management and corporate financial accounting, integrating the perspectives of logistics and accounting to provide a comprehensive elaboration on the management and control system of logistics costs. The main features are as follows:
Innovatively analyzes the statistical accounting methods for China's macro logistics costs. Additionally, introduces advanced domestic and international methods and cases for logistics cost management and control. Draws on the social logistics cost accounting methods of Japan and the United States to statistically account for the current status of China's social logistics costs in recent years and conducts discussions and analyses based on the statistical data. Systematically analyzes the widely acclaimed cost accounting and analysis method, Activity-Based Costing (ABC). For logistics departments of logistics enterprises and cargo owner enterprises, it particularly introduces some financial and non-financial indicators to facilitate the performance evaluation of logistics cost management. Currently, reducing logistics costs has become the primary task of logistics management. The ultimate goal of logistics management is to achieve cost reduction through the overall optimization of the logistics system while ensuring a certain level of logistics service quality. The author combines years of research and teaching experience in logistics management and corporate financial accounting, integrating the perspectives of logistics and accounting to provide a comprehensive elaboration on the management and control system of logistics costs. Innovatively analyzes the statistical accounting methods for China's macro logistics costs and introduces advanced domestic and international methods and cases for logistics cost management and control. This book can serve as a textbook or teaching reference for undergraduate and graduate students in logistics engineering, logistics management, industrial engineering, accounting, and other related fields. It can also be used as a work guide or manual for logistics management personnel and business management personnel in industrial enterprises, as well as a training textbook for advanced logistics management and operation personnel in enterprises.