The Study, Based On The Value Chain Of Postal Enterprises, Cost Control

With china's WTO accession and full development of economic globalization, postal enterprise will be involved in the big family of world economic. How to enhance competitive advantages is an severe topic that postal enterprise must face. According to the new development situation, postal cost control management which executed nowadays can not meet the demand of modern enterprise management. The use of value chain analysis which controls cost in the point of view of cost drive, could solve the potential cost problems or prevents against the possible trouble . The feature of Postal enterprise network is all around and all reaching which is difficult to control cost within some successful methods. This issue is written according to the features of postal enterprise and the analysis of the major problems in the area of cost, use the theory of value chain management which is being widely deliberated nowadays, and try to solve the problems through value chain cost management. The issue consists 6 parts. Part 1 introduces the features and structures of postal enterprise, and the importance to enhance cost control , brings up the topic of this issue. Part 2 introduces the concepts and theories concerned which build up theory foundation of the topic. Part 3 introduces the basic ideas of postal enterprise cost control through value chain from the point of means and concept. Part 4 gives concrete analysis of resources drive, operation drive and process drive on the base of structures of the ten products value chains of postal enterprise, with an example of courier operation cost analysis. Part 5 gives the optimized methods of cost control, including standard cost system, human cost control, operation budget management and take the advantages of cost competition. Part 6 is the summary of the topic.