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Sterile Sea Freight Company, Logistics Warehouse Design And Build,

Posted on:2003-12-09Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X P QiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206360092981474Subject:Traffic and Transportation Engineering
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With the development of logistics, outsourcing has become one of the main trends of business. Enterprises are more focused on their own resources and business, and outsource the others. Logistics is generally deemed by manufactures and dealers to has functions of support and assistance. So industrial and commercial enterprises of developed countries no longer directly manage their logistics, but outsource from specialized logistics service companies. Some of them still maintain the function of logistics operations, more and more supplemented by outsourcing service contracts.Storage is the main part 'of third party logistics, which may be understood in a bri)ad sense to be an outer logistics provider offering part or total services for enterprises' logistics functions. This broad definition includes providers of services such as transport, storage, product distribution, finance and so on. Third party logistics is an important development of conventional transport and storage, which, from the angle of operation, includes all logistics activities provided for logistics service users.From strategic point of view, the activity and liability scope of logistics warehouse is extended. And industrial and commercial enterprises set up long-term cooperative relationship with logistics storage providers to solve specific problems of shippers and consignees. Usually, the purpose is strategic alliance for development and mutual benefits. This definition lays emphasis on the following characters of logistics storage: long-term relationship, cooperative relationship, to solve specific problems cooperatively, and to share benefits and risks together. Compared with basic storage and transport, problems of logistics storage provision are more sophisticated and include broader logistics functions.With the development of international trade and transport, conventional freight forwarding industry couldn't adapt to the need for the development of logistics operation. Shanghai Yuhai Freight Forwarding Company is striving for development on a higher lever, and has decided, based on freight forwarding business, to construct logistics warehouses fitting the development of logistics business, and to provide customers with systematic, informative and perfect services from acceptance, vanning, devanning and delivery of goods to scattered processing, labeling, distribution and storage, etc.I BACKGROUND FOR SELECTION OF TITLEThe development of logistics brings fundamental reforms to conventional freight forwarding industry. Whether to change to logistics has become a problem for assessment of a freight forwarding company's operating theory and developing space. In order to make quicker and broader progress and strive for new developing space, Shanghai Yuhai Freight Forwarding Company constructed logistics warehouses, container yard, as well as adjustment of its conventional freight forwarding business. In 1999, the company decided jp construct one mqre modern logisjjcs warehous.e,dealing with storage, vanning and devanning of LCL goods, and try to negotiate with the customs to build a customs supervisory zone to ensure one-station service, and meanwhile set up an information system with relevant cargo owners and ship owners to realize tracing service. So, the main backgrounds for selection of this thesis' title are as follows:1. The development of international logistics urges companies to construct logistics warehouse so as to acquire more developing space for conventional freight forwarding business;2. Construction of logistics warehouse makes it easier to provide customers with better services so as to realize real one-station service concerning the whole process from acceptance of goods from customers till export or import of goods; '1 3. Construction of logistics warehouse makes it easier gain better harmony i,'" and communication with relevant authorities such as customs, goods ]inspection bureau etc, so as t...
Keywords/Search Tags:Logistics
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