Logistics Market Maturity Evaluation Model Study

Logistics is an important part of the national economy, the logistics market directly restricts the development of economic as it plays an important role in the whole market system, so evaluate development level of logistics market and increased market maturity is good for economic development.Some scholars have conducted a further study,their study include the logistics market development strategy ,structure and operation mode, but logistics market maturity remain blank. There isn't a unified and clear measure to evaluate logistics market maturity. It not only has academic value, but also can provide recommendations to Logistics Company. Most importantly, government departments can carry out such a quantitative analysis and make policy to increase logistics market maturity.This paper firstly analyzes the concept of the logistics market and relevant theoretical knowledge of maturity models, and determine the concept of logistics market maturity which including market environment, market structure, market players and market operation, divide logistics market maturity into four phases: development phase, combined phase, maturity phase and innovation phase.Secondly, this paper emphatically analysis the creation of the evaluation model: (1) preliminarily create logistics market maturity evaluation index system base on building principles, and collect relevant data; (2) delete redundant indicators by correlation analysis and then establish the logistics market maturity evaluation index system. Determine the index weight by factor analysis; (3) determine the evaluation criteria of logistics market maturity byμ-σmethod.Finally, this paper evaluate China's logistics market maturity as an example, the maturity of the logistics market in 2008 show that the maturity of China's logistics market in the integration phase, have great development than before, but still have distance from the maturity phase.