In the current Vietnamese economy, logistics plays an important role in the producing trading activities of businesses, people’s life and other factors of the economy. However, logistics in Vietnam nowadays is still at low development level, underdeveloped prospect and does not reach its role as joint event in economic factors and activities in national economy. Therefore, development of logistics is an urgent problem for policy planners as well as Vietnam businesses nowadays.
With the goal of developing logistics system in Vietnamese economy, the thesis "The plan of developing Vietnamese logistics – concentrating on researching way of rising LPI of Vietnam" focusses on the following points:
- Systematizing and clearing the basic logics of logistics and developing logistics in the economy: conception, foundation, levels of approaching logistics: contents, factors effecting the development of logistics in the economy; the targets to evaluate levels of developing logistics in the economy.
- Analyzing, assessing the reality of logistics development in Vietnamese economy in these aspects: the level of developing science, theory of researching the application of logistics; the fact of supply sources and assurance of supply; of service supply; of market demand; and of infrastructure, competition situation, and statutory policy, for the logistics development in Vietnam.
- Pointing out the effectiveness of environment the logistics development in Vietnam in the future. From this base, determining the goal and conception of its development in Vietnam.
- Finally, recommending solutions mainly depending on the content of developing logistics in the economy, including: solution to develop from national sources(developing science, theory of researching the application of logistics, completing the legal policy for its development); solution to develop from business sources(developing merchandise supply, service supply system, and service market supply); and other general solutions (developing infrastructure, establishing competition situation).