Choice & Research Of Logistics Strategy And Logistics Modes In Jiangxi Copper Corp.

With fast development of world economy and rapid progress of modern science and technology, logistics as a new service in national economy, is developing fast globally. Logistics is regarded internationally as the artery and basic industry in the development of national economy, and the extent of its development has become one of the key indications of uptodateness and overall capacity of a country. Logistics started later in our country, and a big gap exists in comparing the general level of logistics in our country and the level of logistics management in the enterprises to those in the developed countries. As seen by the present economic development in our country, while going deep into market economy, there is less and less chance and possibility to make profit only by commercial distribution. Therefore, enterprises are progressively turning their eyes on logistics, which is usually called "the third profit source" . They, one after another, are doing a lot of work in integrating the sources of logistics, optimizing the management of the logistics in the enterprises, reducing the cost of logistics, expecting to form new points of economic growth and new headspring of profit. As seen by realism, in Jiangxi Copper Corp. (referred as "JCC" herein), in which the author of this article is working, the overall management level of logistics is not high, logistics cost is not able to be reduced from a high level, and profitability of the enterprise is severely restricted. Laggard level of logistics has become one of the key factors affecting the whole benefit and competitiveness of JCC. Bases on this, as a mid-level managerial engaged in research work on enterprise management in JCC over a long period of time, the author of this article tries to investigate and probe into the related issues on choice of logistics strategies and logistics modes in JCC, expecting to do his endeavor to solve "bottleneck problem of logistics" in the developing process of JCC, upgrade the level of logistics management of JCC, enhance the whole competitiveness of the enterprise, and achieve sustainable development of JCC, and at the same time expecting to offer some references for the development of logistics in large manufacturing industries. This article is in six chapters. Chapter One—Introduction, introduces briefly the significance of doing research work on logistics, especially internal logistics, pointing out logistics is the artery and basic industry in the development of national economy and the "the third profit source" of an enterprise, and illustrating the main research methods in this article are normative research, empirical research, induction and deduction, etc.; Chapter Two introduces briefly the relational concepts of logistics, including mainly the definition of logistics, functions of logistics, main theories on logistics, sorts of logistics and management of logistics, etc. ; Chapter Three introduces briefly the difference between logistics enterprise and internal logistics, main sorts of internal logistics, state of the art and analysis to the cause of existing problems in internal logistics in our country, and strategy management of internal logistics, etc. ; Chapter Four focuses on analysis of the overall train of thoughts on JCC's logistics development strategy, including mainly analysis of necessity to implement logistics strategy, SWOT analysis of implementing logistics strategy, basic train of thoughts on logistics strategy, implementation steps and related measures, and evaluating indicator system, etc. ; Chapter Five introduces choice and construction of logistics mode in JCC, including mainly comparison of several modes of internal logistics (self-support logistics, outsourcing logistics and joint logistics, primarily), the main factors to be considered in choosing internal logistics mode, gists of logistics mode choice and basic frames of logistics mode in JCC; Chapter Six analyzes the four issues that JCC should exert itself to handle in implementing logistics strategy, including mainly the issues of adaptability between logistics strategy and total strategy of the enterprise, the issues of unified planning and step implementing of logistics strategy, the issues of how the choice of logistics mode will be combined with practical situation of the enterprise, and the issues of all sidedness and adaptability of the logistics evaluating system, etc..