The contents of value-added logistics services mainly include: services to increase convenience, services to speed up response, services to reduce costs and extended services. The details are as follows:

1. Services that increase convenience

Simplification is relative to consumers, which means that in order to obtain a certain service, what consumers used to do is more convenient, thus increasing the value of goods or services. Including agency business, 24-hour business, automatic ordering, information transmission and transfer, and tracking the whole logistics process are all useful value-added services for customers.

2. Services to speed up the response

Rapid response has become one of the driving forces for the development of logistics. Improve the efficiency of transportation infrastructure and equipment, such as building expressway, speeding up railways, and formulating new flexible management methods; Optimize the distribution center and logistics center network, redesign the distribution channels suitable for customers, so as to reduce logistics links, simplify logistics processes and improve the rapid response ability of logistics systems.

3. Services to reduce costs

By providing value-added logistics services, we seek logistics solutions that can reduce logistics costs. Including adopting TPL service providers and adopting logistics assimilation plan. At the same time, we can improve the efficiency and benefit of logistics by adopting suitable logistics technology and facilities with less investment, or promoting logistics management technology, such as management technology in operational research, single product management technology, bar code technology and information technology.

4. Extended service

With the idea of computer management, it can be extended to market research and forecast, procurement and order processing; Downward, it can be extended to logistics consultation, logistics system design, logistics scheme planning and selection, inventory control decision suggestion, payment recovery and settlement, education and training, and so on.

Extended information:

Value-added logistics services are developing towards a higher level of logistics services, showing the following trends:

1. The logistics environment is constantly changing due to fierce external competition, and many logistics service providers tend to enhance the functions of logistics services at a lower cost. Manufacturers and retailers are constantly looking for providers who can bring innovative logistics services to ensure that the costs of production, warehousing, transportation and distribution can be reduced.

2. The demand for logistics services is developing towards high quality and globalization. With the advent of the era of diversified consumption, flexible production and efficient circulation, the requirements of society and customers for logistics services are getting higher and higher, and the quality of logistics services is an important trend of logistics development in the future.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Value-added Logistics

Baidu Encyclopedia-Value-added Logistics Services