The Logistics Cost Control Research Of The Swire Paints

With economic globalization and the rapid development of science and technology, modern logistics management has become a new approach to reduce costs and create profits, new way of improving economic efficiency. Logistics cost management is to utilize cost control method to achieve logistics management control. Swire Paints, as a well-known chemical companies, there are a lot of problems in the logistics cost control. With the expansion of business scale, the problem becomes more and more serious. For Swire Paints business, the logistics cost control is now one of the important issues to be resolved.The thesis is based on the logistics costs controlling&BPR related theory, firstly the Swire Paints original logistics processes were analyzed, and then the cost problem was splited to three, the supply&manufacture&sales cost problem, each was demontrated clearly. Then, the BPR method of cost controlling based was absolutely utilized to resolve the..issues, Finally, the implement output of cost controlling solution was analysis simply, and the exactly steps as well, based on which the analysis approach is the organizational structure view of the logistics cost management and strategic planning, and after that the main points of warehouse automation concept&ERP integration&accouting asistant system were mentioned there too. Finally, the gap figures of per logistics process, BPR beforewards and afterwards, was listed to explain the cost controlling effectiveness. The research is for the real enterprise, the Swire Paints, about its logistics cost controlling aspect, as a result, it should be a good reference for other similar corporations regarding the logistics cost management.