Under normal circumstances, logistics should be the premise and condition of capital flow, and capital flow should be the support and value guarantee of logistics, and it should be constantly adjusted to adapt to the changes of behavior flow. In spot market transactions, the buyer pays money to obtain the ownership of the commodity entity or the use value of the commodity. In exchange for money, the seller transfers the ownership of the goods and gets compensation for the value of the goods. This is the case with the traditional commodity business activities of paying with one hand and delivering with the other.
The difference between capital flow and logistics is that logistics is the flow of commodity material entities, which can overcome the space-time distance between supply and demand and create the space-time utility of commodities. Capital flow is the flow of commodity value, which realizes the transfer of commodity ownership as an equivalent exchange. Because the specific flow modes are different, capital flow and logistics are independent of each other and can be carried out independently, and the order of flow is not fixed. Under certain circumstances, both logistics without capital flow and capital flow without logistics are possible. For example, the realization of futures trading.
In a word, the formation of capital flow, logistics and information flow is the inevitable result of the continuous development of commodity circulation. They are organically unified in the process of commodity value form transformation, and * * * completes the cycle of commodity production-distribution-exchange-consumption-production. Information flow provides timely and accurate information, capital flow completes the transfer of commodity value form in a planned way according to demand, and logistics completes the transfer process of commodity use value, that is, commodity entity, according to the requirements of capital flow, so that "third-rate" constitutes an inseparable whole in commercial activities and completes the whole process of commodity circulation. It can be seen that in business activities, information flow is a description and record of capital flow and logistics activities, reflecting the movement process of capital flow and logistics. Information flow plays a guiding and controlling role in capital flow and logistics movement, and provides the basis for economic decision-making for capital flow and logistics activities.
Therefore, the relationship between the three can be expressed as: based on information flow, the value of goods is realized through capital flow, and the use value of goods is realized through logistics.