6物流英语回答问题

Answer the following questions in English.用英语回答下列问题。

1．What’s modern logistics

Modern logistics is a strategic measure considering the whole circumstances of production, transportation, and distribution market, which plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective flow of goods service and related information from the point of origin to the point of consumption to meet the customers’ requirements.

2．What’s the purpose of packaging

Packaging intends to market a product readily sellable as well as to protect it against damage and prevent it from deterioration when in stock. Furthermore, packaging is often the most relevant element of a trade mark and conduces to advertising or communication.

3．How many means of transportation do you know What are they

I know five of them which are railroads, trucks, ships, planes, and pipes respectively.

4．Did Chinese do a good job in logistics Why

No, not quite. The total cost in logistics in China accounted for too much about 20%of the GDP, which influenced the economic grout. If only lower the high percentage of the logistics cost, our national economy would be no doubt improved.

5．What’s the important characteristic of products

An important characteristic of any product is its availability at the place where a customer wished to consume it.

6．How do products express value

Products are of any vale when and only when they are moved to the right place where it is available to the customer.

7．Why high distribution costs of convenience products are justified

Because the sale potential is brought about by the wide and extensive distribution.

8．How to classify industrial products

According to the extent to which they enter to production process, industrial products can be classified mainly into two categories: which are part of finished products; which are used in the process of marking the products.

9．How do you understand JIT system

JIT is known as lean production or stockless production, since the key behind a successful implementation of JIT is the reduction of inventory levels at the various stations of the production line to the absolute minimum. This necessitated good coordination between stations such that every station produces only the exact volume that the next station needs. On the other hand, a station pulls in only the exact volume that it needs from the preceding station.

10．Why international transportation is an area of growing interest and concern to the logistician

The transportation equipment is the same as that used domestically, with the exception that