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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 11 Network and Modern Logistics 1. Modern Logistics Service The so-called logistics, not just the goods transported from one place to another place.. Traditional logistics include: (1) transport function, (2) storage function, (3) Handling function, (4) packaging function, (5 distribution processing capabilities, 6) logistics information processing and processing functions. These are ordinary business activities in a typical logistics operation. In e-commerce and network support, more than a modern logistics will not only have these features. Also added a number of value-added logistics services. Value-added logistics services, including the following meanings and content. (1) increase the convenience of services. All can be procedures, simplify operation services are value-added services to implement one-stop door to door service, providing a complete operation or operating tips, free training, maintenance-free, labor-saving design, or installation, agent business, faces a receiving client, 24 hours a day, automatic ordering, transmission of information and transfer the entire process of tracking and other logistics are useful value-added services. (2) to accelerate response speed of service. Rapid response has become a driving force for development of logistics. The traditional ideas and practices will accelerate the reaction rate becomes simply a requirement for fast transport, but the demand side of the speed of increasingly demanding circumstances, it has become a constraint, it must think of other ways to increase the speed. (3) to reduce the cost of services. Early logistics cost remains high, some companies simply can not afford. But can be applied through the use of comparison, less investment in logistics technology and facilities and equipment, or the implementation of logistics management techniques, such as operations research in management techniques, single-product management technology, bar code technology and information