Since the development of the logistics industry faster or to the number of twenty-first Century, especially in recent years, the domestic logistics industry is booming, the transportation speed is very impressive, with SF and Jingdong logistics as an example, the next day to the domestic express delivery is not a problem, the Chinese business enterprise brings great convenience.

At present, there are several different ways of dividing the logistics industry

1. It can be divided into macro and micro logistics according to different objects

Macro logistics refers to the overall logistics activities of social reproduction, and the logistics activities that are understood and studied from the overall perspective of social reproduction. Macro logistics can also be understood from the space category. Logistics activities in a large space category often have macroscopical characteristics, and logistics activities in a very small space are often microscopic. The main characteristics of macro logistics research are comprehensive and overall. The main research contents are: the overall structure of logistics, the relationship between logistics and society, the relationship between logistics and economic development, the establishment and operation of social logistics system and international logistics system.

Micro logistics refers to the actual and specific logistics activities that consumers and production enterprises are engaged in, which belong to micro logistics. In the whole logistics activity, a specific part of the logistics activities belong to the micro logistics, and the specific logistics activities in a small regional space also belong to micro logistics.

2. It can be divided into social logistics and enterprise logistics according to different purpose

Social logistics means beyond a to a social category for the society for the purpose of logistics.

Enterprise logistics refers to the study of logistics activities related to it from the point of view of the enterprise. It is a typical and microscopic field of logistics activities.

3. It can be divided into international logistics and regional logistics according to different scope

International logistics is a logistics field that develops very fast and has a large scale in modern logistics system. It is a logistics activity accompanying and supporting international economic exchanges, trade activities and other international exchanges.

Compared with the international logistics, logistics within the framework of a country, a city logistics, a regional logistics under the same laws and regulations, are subject to the same cultural and social factors are in the same level of technology and equipment level of.

4. It can be divided into general logistics and special logistics according to the division of category

General logistics refers to the common point and generality of logistics activities. It is an important feature of logistics activities, involving the whole society and the enterprises. Therefore, the establishment of the logistics system and the development of logistics activities must be universally applicable.

On the basis of General Logistics laws, special areas, specialized fields and special industries often have special logistics, special application fields, special management modes, special labor objects and special machinery and equipment, which belong to special logistics scope.

With the vigorous development of cross-border electricity providers and domestic electricity providers, and the wide application of information technology and network technology, the third party logistics has increasingly become the dominant way of logistics service. Logistics globalization is an inevitable trend.

From the European and American countries, the production and processing enterprises no longer own their own warehouses, and the other distribution centers serve themselves, which has become a trend. A survey of 500 major manufacturing companies in the United States in 1998 showed that 69% of the owners of logistics services to the third party logistics enterprises (including some delegate). At the same time, the US 33% and 24% of non - third party logistics users in the United States are actively considering the use of third party logistics services.

With the increasingly wide use of information technology and network technology in the field of logistics, logistics and e-commerce have become increasingly integrated. In 1970s, the technology of electronic data interchange (EDI) application in the field of logistics has simplified the logistics process cumbersome and time-consuming the order process, the logistics information of both supply and demand to instant communication, each link of the logistics process can be accurately convergence, greatly improve the efficiency of logistics. And the emergence of the Internet makes the logistics industry has undergone a revolutionary change, based on timely and accurate information on the internet transfer to meet the logistics system of highly intensive management information needs, ensure each point between logistics network and information network between the headquarters and the full sharing of.

The globalization of logistics is the inevitable trend of the rise and development of cross-border e-commerce. Large companies, especially multinational companies, are increasingly constructing the production and marketing network from a global perspective. The globalization of raw material and parts procurement and product sales has also brought about globalization of logistics activities.

Cross border logistics enterprises want to lay out their own logistics business on the global scale, they need to invest a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, so there are also some international logistics enterprises. Their businesses only cover the corner of the world, but this is strong enough.