Research On The Collaboration Mechanism Of Logistics Service Supply Chain

Logistics service supply chain (LSSC) is a collaborative symbiotic logistics services operation mode with resource integration and integrated operation among members, which is to response to the development of collaborative operation in logistics industry and to meet the growing emergence of the integrated logistics service requirements. LSSC can improve the level of logistics services, and foster the basis for the socialized logistics services demand, which is an important way to achieve logistics resources integration and the sustainable development of logistics industry, and to integrate the logistics management in enterprises with the third-party logistics services. At present, there is no systematic study on the LSSC, and the basic theoretical research is much needed to guide the practice. Collaboration is the key for the operation and development of LSSC, thus, to understand the collaboration essence and collaboration mechanism of LSSC could provide some basic ideas to the construction, operation and management of LSSC. Based on those theories of system science, synergetic, integration theory, population ecology, game theory, and the modern supply chain management, the paper made an in-depth research on the collaboration mechanism of LSSC.The starting point of research work is to grasp the concept of LSSC and its collaboration. The existed concepts of LSSC are defined mostly from the perspective of the membership, and the collaboration of LSSC is not fully understood. The connotation of LSSC was analyzed in the paper from its natural, operational and organizational features firstly. Some characteristics of LSSC were summed up, and the formation process of LSSC was investigated. Then, the connotation system of LSSC's collaboration was constructed, including the concept of LSSC's collaboration, collaborative features, collaborative levels and collaborative factors.The main body of research is the construction and investigation for the collaboration mechanism of LSSC. Considering the dynamic developing feature of collaboration, the system of the collaboration mechanism of LSSC was defined as four components, including the collaboration-formation mechanism, the collaboration-growth mechanism, the collaboration-operation mechanism and the collaboration-evolution mechanism. The collaboration-formation mechanism revealed the intrinsic logicality of the formation of collaboration in LSSC; the internal and external forces were analyzed; the synergistic effects and its principle were discussed in detail. The collaboration-growth mechanism explored the intrinsic logicality of the self-organizing growing process of collaboration in LSSC; the collaborative models were built based on the theory of population ecology; the growing trends and related constraint conditions were discussed emphatically. The collaboration-operation mechanism probed into the intrinsic logicality of the collaborative operation in LSSC; three collaborative operation modes, point-chain coordination, line-chain coordination and chain-chain coordination were defined; the collaborative operation models were built based on the game theory, and a series of numerical experiments on collaborative models were conducted to make thorough analysis and research on those three modes and to identify main influencing factors for collaborative operation in LSSC. The collaboration-evolution mechanism investigated the logicality of the evolution of collaboration in LSSC; the evolution characteristics and conditions on those three modes were discussed; and main influencing factors for collaborative evolution in LSSC were founded.The purpose of the study on the collaboration mechanism of LSSC is to recognize, understand and master the inherent collaboration logicality in the operation and development of LSSC, so as to explore some ideas for the collaborative management of LSSC, which were discussed in the paper lastly.