Abstract: With thedevelopment of informationization and networking, the combination seamlessly in physical network andvirtual network has become a primary goal for modern logistics demand anddirection of development in logistics industry. Virtual logistics is the resultthat integrates the supply resources and requirement information in logisticsservices through information technology and computer networking technology, andstrengthens the credit management. The article lay stress on the analyzing theapplication of virtual logistics concept in grain logistics enterprisesoperation system, providing supply-chain solutions integrative for customers, reducinglogistics costs, through virtual warehouse, grain logistics enterprises canachieve inventory control, reducing logistics costs.

Keywords: VirtualLogistics; Grain Logistics; Supply-chain; Virtual Warehouse

 1. Introduction

Facing the opportunitiesof market changing rapidly, being quickly aware of customer requirement andresponse quickly, then fast operating and implementing, will become the key tosurvival and development for modern logistics enterprises. In China's currentlogistics system, owing to fragmentation serious in the logistics industry, andmany logistics enterprises belonging to different departments, system barriersto consolidation of cross-sectoral, cross-regional is significant, then buildingvirtual logistics enterprise become an inevitable choice.

Virtual Logistics is thelatest achievements in the development of modern logistics under the circumstancesof information technology and the rapid development of the logistics industry, inthe basis for the development of third-party logistics. The concept of virtuallogistics was raised first by Stuart and others who were the United States in1996, when Stuart thought that make the warehouse in the world integratevirtual for a large-scale logistics support system making use of the use ofcommunication network technology increasingly sophisticated and means, in orderto complete the fast, precise, stable material support mission, and meet themarket demand of multi-frequency, low-volume. Since then, some scholars beganto study virtual logistics at home and abroad.