The association rules mining is one of problems attracting scholars of the world in recent years. In order to improve the mining efficiency, scholars of the world continuously study. This paper introduces the principle of association rules mining algorithm and analyzes the domestic and foreign research status of the algorithm, and analyzes its typical application in commercial, medical, insurance, communications, industry, agriculture and other fields, the algorithm is applied in different actual mining work is a further study of the future direction; combined with the analysis of current situation and demands of logistics enterprise data, analysis of association rules of data mining application in intelligent logistics, provide decision support for optimizing logistics path to improve logistics marketing service of logistics enterprises.