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ckage carriers for small and time sensitive shipments. Package carriers also pickup the package from the source and deliver it to the destination site. With an increase in just in time (JIT) deliveries and focus on inventory reduction, demand for package carriers has grown. (Chopra & Meindle, 2007. P389)

For example, the goal of DHL is nothing less than to transform the logistics industry and to deliver beyond our customers' expectations wherever and whenever they need us - by offering the most comprehensive suite of services and becoming the only genuine one-stop source for logistics solutions, globally.

The supply chain in package carrier for DHL express is the flow of goods, within information and finance. It starts by sourcing raw materials which content semi-finished goods, that are scheduled and transported into factories to be made into finished products (see Diagram up). Then pass through warehouses or distribution centres and are delivered to retailers, wholesalers or direct to consumers' homes or business premises. Finally, aftermarket activities involve the maintenance and repair, or the return and recycling, of products at the end of their life. Supply chain planning optimises overall flows and inventories, by balancing resources with demand at all stages. (DHL)

运输的基础设施和政策-Transportation infrastructure and policies

The transportation is infrastructure that means roads, seaports, airports, rail, and canal. All these exist along nodes and links of transportation network. All countries are taken responsibility a significant role in building and managing these infrastructure elements. The transportation and infrastructure focuses on operational and policy issues within transportation and infrastructure areas that affect logistics operations.

讨论-Discussions

How can quickly deliver products to consumers with a common consensus on the control operators?

That the integration of logistics services and e-business is the current trend is currently in some companies. In order to obtain position that is more beneficial and building a complementary relationship, which is its reliance on networks and industries, such as Yahoo and E-Bay, and often cooperate with the logistics industry. Integration can reduce the middle-level procedures. For example, producers can immediately provide products to more customers of the station. To reduce costs by more efficiently. Besides, companies do not have to take inventory and warehouse costs only, and therefore it becomes a modern industry of the lower cost and more efficient division of specialization. For example, customers can obtain an order of goods shops. Through E-logistics, and the state of competition in industries could be promoted in the knowledge economy.

Moreover, to promote business activities should include transport systems in various stages. The integration between different applications is to provide comfort through the promotion of the system of information flow and business processes. For consumers and businesses can make more efficient and easier than through the assistance of e-commerce and the Internet. With physical delivery, still rely on the transportation system to end processes. The cost of transport may be one-third of the cost of logistics. At the same time, transport systems and techn