International Logistics Enterprise Cost Management To Explore

Logistics directly or indirectly affects each field of our human activities. At present, most successful enterprises regard logistics as one of their functional activities, which is of strategic importance in decreasing their operating cost,increasing their operating efficiency and their quality of service.Logistics management boosts the global economy and becomes a new point for sources of economic growth. According to the theory of the Third Source of Profit, logistics can indirectly raise a company's profit and directly boost its profit by dropping its cost. For a logistics enterprise,its operating cost management impacts on not only its own destiny ,but that of its trading partner in supply chain.International logistics enterprises doing business through ports,procedure is more complecated and situation is more various. An urgent problem to being solved is how to find out a proper operating mode in order to fasten transporting speed in one hand, meanwhile ,and cut down operating cost in the other hand.The following paper reviewed the process of logistics development;analysed the relationships about logistics with capital flow etc;introduced relative theories;summerized the strategic trend of the development of logistics supply chain. By the example of Tianjin Xingang port,it illustrated the constituent parts of logistics cost;summerised the basic thread of logistics cost management. According to present situation,it summerized the workflow of international logistics enterprises, and put forward the evaluating indicators for cost management and a better way to manage operating cost.