NewsTo enter the eternal theme of twenty-first Century, change has become much faster than the speed of learning. Logistics industry driven by the scientific and technological progress and innovation in the management of technology, experienced a process from quantitative change to qualitative change, global logistics has entered the era of supply chain.
Twenty-first Century is full of changes in the logistics development in twenty-first Century. The logistics industry has the most impact of the changes, is the electronic business model to the logistics changes, emphasizing the establishment of a strategic partnership in the transformation to become the first year of twenty-first Century. Strategic partnership, the first refers to the logistics service providers and supply chain service providers in the unstable economy to establish a steady relationship: second refers to the establishment of strategic partnership between logistics suppliers. With the supply chain partners in the unstable economy to establish a steady relationship.
First of all, it is important to acquire sufficient knowledge and skills in order to develop these relations in the field of technology oriented and rapid development. This is not only for the success of the enterprise, but also for the survival of the enterprise.
From the view of logistics development, logistics thought has experienced a process of continuous change. The evolution of logistics ideas is summarized by the authority Logistics scholars: 50 years ago, the emphasis was on transportation efficiency; the 50's emphasized the logistics cost and customer service; the 60 time emphasized the integration and quality; the 80 time emphasized the operation of the financial statement and the operation optimization; the 90 time emphasized customer relationship and enterprise extension; in twenty-first Century, it emphasized the supply chain integration management.
American Logistics Management Association (CLM) of the two times to reflect the logistics of the two qualitative leap. When the association was established in 1963, the name is "physical distribution association". In 1985, it was renamed as "Logistics Management Association", which increased more and more from transportation and distribution. In twenty-first Century, the situation was very similar to that of the logistics and the environment in which the change was changed in the early CLM80, and in 2005, the American Logistics Management Association was renamed as the "supply chain management professional association", which showed the evolution from the logistics to supply chain.
The American Logistics Management Association believes that supply chain management is the main function and basic business process between enterprises and enterprises, and the management integration of organic and efficient business models. It includes all the logistics activities in the process, including the production and operation, which drives the process and the activities of the enterprise internal and enterprise marketing, sales, product design, finance and information technology and other processes and activities.