Adaptability Of Logistics System To National Economy Mobilization

National economy mobilization has been well recognized as one of a country’s security mechanisms for its primary contributions to the national economy’s development and operation, and has also been known for its outstanding function of being ready for wars and emergency events, if any. Resources mobilization is an indispensable component involved in national economy mobilization, as important as logistics activities which cover resources’ preparation, implementation, and demobilization. National economy mobilization logistics is defines as a variety of activities satisfying emergency needs, whose effectiveness and efficiency is determined by the operational system. Such unexpected events as wars and accidents are, on the one hand, the reasons for and targets of national economy mobilization logistics’ birth and development; and on the other hand, they also have brought about some effects and threats to the mobilization logistics system. Under the circumstances of being threatened, the ability of dealing with emergency plays an essential role in how to adapt the existing logistics system to meet mobilization demand at maximum, which is closely connected with the fulfillment of the overall mobilization objectives.This thesis is determined to explore deeply-rooted connation of adaptability of logistics system and the measures as to how to effectively enhance it. By having referred to many a literature and research made by other scholars or experts, the author has been engaged in the study for a long time and summarize main contributions as follows.1) To begin with, the concept of adaptability of mobilization logistics system is defined, followed by detailed explanation of its deeper connation and influential factors. As mentioned in this section, the change of logistics network flow and flow velocity are given priority when focusing research on adaptability of mobilization logistics system, in which nodes,links, and the network function will affect the flow rate and velocity.2) Next,the reliability of mobilization logistics system is discussed. The definition of mobilization logistics reliability is put forward and an optimization model is constructed accordingly based on reliability constraints. Considering the attributes of the mobilization logistics system network, the network-entropy-based analysis is made for the network reliability when and if the mobilization logistics system is attacked. To deal with unsolved problems of traditional network entropy theories, the improved concepts of both the shortest path and the largest flow of network entropy are proposed according to directed networks and undirected networks respectively on the condition that either the nodes or the links suffer an attack.3) Then, the block-proof design of mobilization logistics system is formulated in accordance with blocking flow theories and models. In the phrase of traffic network design, a totally-balanced network is achieved via an optimization design model with minimal expense for eliminating blocking points; as for existing traffic networks, an optimization restructure model is applied to eliminate and reduce structural blocking points as much as possible at lowest expenses. As a result, through optimization and transformation, the network’s maximum flow and minimum saturated flow have been upgrading, and the network performance may be effectively improved.4) Furthermore, an evaluation concerning adaptability of mobilization logistics system is implemented by constructing the weighted index consisting of five adaptability factors of warehousing, transportation, handling, packaging, and logistics information, together with effective ways in which these adaptability factors will be improved. Then the mobilization logistics system evaluation index system is set up, including the first class index of 3, the second class of 10, and the third class of 31. In view of the fact that mobilization logistics system is likely to change suddenly under emergency conditions, the evaluation is performed by adopting a catastrophe progression method based on fuzzy membership functions, and further describes and overcomes some deficiencies existing in the catastrophe progression method.5) Finally, structural recommendations are proposed with the purpose of enhancing logistics system’s adaptability to national economy mobilization. The fundamental way is to establish a military-and-civilian integrated mobilization logistics system. Specifically, it may be appropriate to promote mobilization logistics outsourcing and to expand construction of mobilization logistics centers.All in all, this thesis may further enrich and perfect the mobilization logistics theories at macro level, and at the same time, suggest means and methods for quantifying the mobilization logistics’ operation at micro level, with an aim of pushing mobilization logistics in theory and in practice.