企业为了增强核心竞争力，而将其物流业务以合同的形式委托于第三方，由其完成整个物流过程。它涉及到信息管理、库存控制、运输管理、日常盘点、包装发货等相关环节。
据统计，物流成本一般占销售额的5%-35%之间，仅次于制造过程中的物料费用或者批发、零售产品的成本，因此物流外包的主要目标是降低总体拥有成本。
In order to enhance the core competitiveness，manufacturing enterprises usually entrust their logistics business to the third party in the form of the contract to complete the entire logistics process by the third party. It relates to information management, inventory control, transportation arrangement , cycle counting, packing & delivery etc.
According to statistics, logistics cost usually accounts for 5%-35% of sales volume, which is second only to the manufacturing material cost or the wholesale & retail cost of the products. As a result, the main goal of logistics outsourcing is to reduce TCO.
