Research In Establishment And Management Of Virtual Logistics Enterprises In China

The traditional domestic logistics enterprises have been faced up with transformation sincethe third party logistics started growing. Confronted with the competitors from both home andabroad, many domestic third party logistics enterprises in logistics industry express their wishesto form alliances to enhance their competitive capability. Under such circumstance, the articlestudies the issues relevant to the cooperation in third party logistics enterprises so as to providelogistics enterprises with some theoretical guidance.The article is divided into three parts;the first part introduces the concept of virtual logisticsenterprise;the second part devotes to the formation of virtual logistics enterprise and the thirdpart focuses on the management in such enterprises.First, by analyzing the competition environment of the logistics industry in China, thearticle makes a lengthy examination on the current distribution of logistics industry .It is pointedout that under the current industry environment logistics enterprises have to form virtual logisticsalliances-building virtual logistics enterprise.Second, the formation of the virtual logistics enterprise is discussed in detail includingformation process, formation models and necessary information platform structure andframework. The concept of virtual logistics coordinator is established, pointing out its positionand function as the corn enterprise. From the point of view of the coordinator, the article studieshow to choose member enterprises.Third, management in virtual logistics enterprise is studied, concerning risk managementand performance evaluation. So, controlling time risks over logistics completion and evaluatingperformance are discussed in the dissertation to tackle the problem of member enterprisemanagement.The focus of the dissertation is on the strategy for developing third party logisticsenterprises. It analyzes systematically how to form alliance for such enterprises and makes anoverall and profound study on formation and management of virtual logistics enterprise. It hopesto provide logistics enterprise with something valuable for their reference.