Methods And Practice In Reducing Logistics Cost In Saint-gobain Co., Ltd.

In recent years, with rapid development of domestic economy and increase of people's living level, our automobile industry is developing in high speed. In 2005, production and sales quantity of automobile has exceeded the quantity of Japan, becoming the second large consuming market. Strong demand on automobile drives the increase of production quantity, so as to automobile parts which face severe competition. Now, reducing logistics cost of automobile parts becomes efficient way to improve competition level.To decrease logistics cost of Saint-Gobain Sekurit (Changchun) Co., Ltd, this article introduces ways from purchasing cost, stock cost and customer relationship, emphasizing the importance of conformity of internal resource and external resource, optimize of logistics procedure, communication and team up inside, Construction of logistics information systems and cooperation with 3rd logistics company.Now enterprises become to know the importance of logistics management, and call it as"3rd profit source", in practice, we should perfect logistics counting system, benchmarking and compare inside, and regulate standard of whole automobile parts line. This needs the good communication between logistics staff and accounting staff, and separate logistics cost from other costs by accounting staff to assure the factuality of logistics cost.This article discusses logistics management problems and settlement of China by comparing logistics management actuality of American and Japan. Introduces the management problems of Saint-gobain and provide the ways to solve the problems. The content includes relation of pooling purchasing and...