Since logistics is a management job that covers all aspects of functions such as procurement, warehousing, transportation, packaging, international trade, and computers, senior logistics talents must not only understand logistics expertise, but also have knowledge of other professional skills involved in their positions. Profound use can be better qualified for logistics work. Both college students who have just left school or front-line staff who have two or three years of work experience must continue to improve in practice to meet the rapid development of modern enterprises for logistics talents.

The senior logistics talents most needed by modern enterprises are those who know how to plan the long-term development of the enterprise from a strategic point of view, but also have practical work experience in a first-line department. If you have worked in a well-known foreign logistics company, listed logistics company or consulting industry The best background ever. It is reported that Suning Group plans to set up 1,000 large chain stores across the country within three years. An important condition for the realization of this huge plan is to have a logistics team that is familiar with the operation of large logistics centers and can establish a warehousing and distribution system. The transportation department of Suning Group's Jiangsu area delivers 8,000 household appliances every day. It is hard to imagine that a graduate who has no actual transportation and distribution experience can be qualified for such a job. The current school education and industry training focus on theoretical teaching, and there is still a big gap between the professional skills and perspectives mastered by graduates and the needs of enterprises. This is also an important reason for the prominent contradiction between the supply and demand of logistics talents in my country.

Generally speaking, senior logistics talents need to master the following four areas of professional knowledge and skills:

Logistics management knowledge

The core of logistics management lies in resource integration at the macro level and lean operation at the micro level. Personnel engaged in logistics management should be familiar with the basic processes of the industry, master the planning and layout of logistics centers, transportation and distribution of goods, procurement management and inventory control, basic principles of logistics machinery and equipment, and operational management characteristics of logistics enterprises. Knowledge.

Knowledge of Computer Information System

Because the logistics operations of modern enterprises have very high requirements for information systems. In addition to being proficient in computer skills and office automation tools, senior logistics talents must also have a deep understanding of information systems, be able to correctly judge the logistics needs of enterprises in the wave of enterprise informatization, and stand in a professional perspective for the logistics of enterprises. Change points the way.

Financial knowledge

The reason why logistics is called a "third-party profit source" is to improve the economic benefits of enterprises through cost-saving methods. As senior logistics talents, they hold middle and high-level positions in the enterprise. Only by proficient in financial knowledge can they correctly carry out "logistics diagnosis" for the enterprise at work, analyze logistics costs and reduce them.

Good foreign language application skills

Advanced logistics management needs to constantly learn from the world¡¯s latest logistics management technology and knowledge in computer, finance, foreign trade, human resources, etc. Only continuous learning at work can ensure that the logistics work of the enterprise is always full of vitality and achieve continuous cost savings purpose. Good foreign language application ability is a necessary skill for all senior talents.

Countermeasures to alleviate my country's "logistics talent shortage"

The lack of logistics talents in my country is because the education and training of logistics talents has not kept up with the needs of economic development, which is difficult to solve in a short period of time. Nowadays, in order to alleviate the pressure of the contradiction between the supply and demand of logistics talents in our country, in addition to speeding up the construction of logistics majors in higher education, a more realistic way is to continue to promote the certification of China's logistics professional qualification standards, so that more people are already engaged in logistics work or plan to future Staff engaged in logistics master professional logistics knowledge and skills through on-the-job training.