物流配送外文文献及翻译详细分析.doc

1. INTRODUCTION Logistics is normally considered as nothing more than getting the right product to the right place at the right time for the least cost. Faced with a rapidly changing environment, revolutionary changes in technology, continued government deregulation, the shortening of product life cycle, proliferation of product lines and shifts in traditional manufacturer-retailer relationships, many organisations have had to rethink their traditional assumptions. Over the last ten years one of the most significant changes in management thinking was the emphasis on the search for strategies