E-business logistics development in China: Bottleneck and countermeasures

Abstract

E-commercial logistics has come to be an inevitable trend in the development of modern logistics and it has been pushing forward the development of national economy. It has shortened the trading span of commodities, sped it up and lowered the cost of trading. However, its recent development saw some problems, which has constrained the development of E-business. How to reconcile E-business and logistics is crucial and worth exploring in the new-born logistics in China. This paper began with the birth and growth of logistics to elaborate its significance in E-business and analyzed the bottlenecks in the development of E-commercial logistics with some countermeasures at last. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.