GIS is a particular important spatial information system, which is made up of the first letters of the ‘Geographic Information System’. Under the support of the computer hardware and software system, it is a technology system that to collect, store up, manage, operate and analyze the data of relevant geographical distribution in the entire or part of the Earth’s surface (including the atmosphere).

To integrate GIS technology into the logistics and distribution process, you can easily deal with transportation, storage, handling and delivery of the goods, etc. Additionally, you can manage and analyze the problems in the process, such as the choice of transport routs and warehouse location, the setting of warehouse capacity, reasonable handling strategy and arrangement of transport vehicle. Thus, it helps logistics enterprises to effectively use the resources, reduce the consumption and improve the efficiency.

+ Define the customer’s location and vehicle routing through the character strings of full address that provided by customers.

+ Achieve the reasonable editor of vehicle routing (create, delete, modify) and customer distribution sort through the GIS-based query and decision support of map performance.

+ Use specific map symbols on the map to represent the customer’s location and to represent different types of customers (ordinary customers, VIP) with different symbols.

+ Display the attribute information of the customer symbol through the query function of GIS or clicking the customer symbol on the map.

+ Check the customer’s location on the map as well as the environment around the customers to find the potential customers

+ To graphically display the value information of all relevant operating results of business system by calling GIS.

+ Achieve the split and merging of distribution region through the integrated assessment models and the query of GIS.

+ Vehicle and cargo tracking: it can show the actual location of the vehicle or cargo and check the status of vehicles and cargo by using GPS.

+ Provide transport routes planning and navigation: planning transport routes and display the designing routes on the electronic map.

+ Information query: Check the main building, transport vehicles, customers within the scope of distribution.

+ Simulation and decision-making: Build a model to simulate the layout of logistics network by using the data of long-term customers, vehicles, orders and geography.