Model innovation drives new opportunities for logistics cost reduction

As a key link in the industrial chain and supply chain, efficient logistics is of great significance to improving the efficiency of economic operation and the smooth flow of the "muscles" of the real economy. By innovating service models and extending service chains, promoting the deep integration of industrial chain and supply chain, and then more effectively connecting production and consumption, it has become a key factor in reducing logistics costs.

With the implementation of various policies and measures, the logistics industry has entered a new stage of development in reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Cai Jin, vice president of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, emphasized that effective logistics organization methods should be used to reduce the logistics costs of the entire industrial chain and effectively reduce logistics costs.

In the past, reducing logistics costs mainly focused on optimizing the cost of logistics organization activities. Today, it is necessary to expand the circulation boundaries upward to the production and procurement fields and downward to the terminal consumption end through scientific logistics organization methods to reduce the logistics costs of the whole society.

Wang Ming, a researcher at the Institute of Comprehensive Transportation of the National Development and Reform Commission, believes that supply chain solutions should be used to promote the coordinated development of manufacturing, logistics and circulation industries and build a modern industrial system.

In the face of increasingly rich consumer scenarios, the way to reduce logistics costs in the future is to encourage logistics companies, manufacturers and e-commerce companies to form an efficient supply chain cooperation mechanism, promote the intensive use of supply chain resources and channel integration, provide high-quality supply chain services and derivative value-added services, and meet the diversified needs of consumers. At the same time, the deep integration of the logistics supply chain with the manufacturing and trade industry chains will help to open up new scenarios, models and forms, create new value, and have a strong demonstration and leading effect on building regional industrial clusters based on advantageous industries.

Standardization is the cornerstone of modern logistics and a key means to achieve seamless connection between all links of logistics and improve the level of logistics interconnection. In the process of the transformation of the logistics industry from extensive to refined, every detail optimization will help reduce costs. For example, by cultivating the recycling and sharing of standardized technical equipment, sharing and leasing, improving resource utilization and reducing logistics operating costs.

Wei Yongqiang said that strengthening green logistics practices is also an important direction for industry enterprises to reduce logistics costs. By adopting environmentally friendly materials, optimizing packaging design, and promoting the recycling of packaging, resource waste and environmental pollution can be reduced, thereby reducing logistics costs.

Accelerating the construction of the international logistics system will help open up domestic and foreign market channels, achieve efficient integration and utilization of resources, and promote my country's logistics equipment and technology to go abroad and gain a global reputation. According to the "2024 Fourth Quarter Logistics Early Warning Forecast Report", it is expected that nearly half of the companies will expand the scope of international logistics services and actively develop logistics markets such as ASEAN and Central Asia.