During the Second World War, American military logistics unit made essential research on logistics, from then on, logistics was introduced into commercial field and was separated as a subject. Logistics became one of the four new infant industries in 21st century. Recently, with the wide spread of Internet and e-business, more and more people came to realize the power of logistics management.Modern logistics management is an integrated system project; it will become a bottleneck if it still depends on simple e-management. According to ways of modern logistics management, only the system based on computer, network can do the job well; so modern logistics management has been e-logistics management in some degree.Logistics developed rapidly in China, medium and small enterprises are improving their logistics by information technology. According to a recent poll, 60% enterprises aimed at collecting, transferring, storing, sharing information, found a decision-making and control system. After two years practice, enterprises prefer adaptability to overseas software. Enterprise knew more about requirement, and more cautious when buying. Logistics software has more subsections than ever before, such as freight management system, order management system.The development of logistics management system combined relational database system, network communication technology, web technology, focused on every part of the logistics management. Reduced the mistakes and improved the efficiency.Agent is a new application of distribution, but also an effective one under single and universal framework structure. It is already presented powerful potential and advantage in many fields such as e-business, long-distance education, network management. |