Research On Coordination And Management Of Partnership In Corn Supply Chain

Corn is one of China's three major crops whose production and consumption are only less than rice. Corn production and consumption in China are in second place after the United States in the world. Since China's reforming, production and consumption of corn have increased rapidly. It shows an overall supply exceeds demand. Corn is mainly used as food, forage, industrial processing materials and seeds. Compared with rice and wheat, corn has advantages because of a more versatile, longer chain. Corn not only is used as food and feed, but also as industrial materials. With the gradual improvement of living standards, the consumption of being used as food and species is relatively stable, the consumption of being used as forage and industrial processing materials increase quickly. With the rapid development of processing of corn, the functions of corn being used as food have subsided. It will affect the direction and quantity of flowing of Jilin corn.In recent years, with the rapid development of processing of corn, the consumption of corn being used as forage increases quickly. The diverse corn purchasers strengthen the requirement of corn. It affects the relation of world's market supply and demand of corn and the corn supply chain. Corn supply chain should be improved and highlighted the strategic partnership between the nodes. It can make the chain more effective, if the strategic partnerships among the nodes in the supply chain are established. The supply chain core businesses promote the development of the supply chain and directly or indirectly affect the relationship management of members in the supply chain. The purpose of supply chain partnerships is establishing a trust, cooperative and win-win coordination within two or more independent members of supply chain which ensures the realization of common goal or interest. Supply chain partnerships are a strategic alliance within a specific period of time, risks, and common benefit through sharing information.Currently, the degree of integration of the corn supply chain is low. The research on coordination and management among supply chain partners confine in the manufacturing sectors, while the research on coordination and management among the corn supply chain partner has not been reported. There are many factors affecting the management of corn supply chain partnerships. This study attempts to design and test model for the coordination and management of partnerships, putting some of the discrete elements affecting the partnership into the model and researching the causality among the various elements and the degree that these elements influencing cooperation of the corn supply chain. These studies have benefits on establishing and maintaining relationship between supply chain partners, improving the performance of supply chain.The thesis is divided into eight chapters. The specific content and conclusions are as follows:Chapters I and II contain the introduction, theoretical foundation and literature review. In this section, it shows the research background, research objectives, research methods, technical line and the theoretical basis of research papers, analyzing, reviewing and commenting the previous studies on partnership of supply chain and corn supply chain.It analyzes the supply and demand of corn in the third chapter. In this section, it analyzes the corn supply and demand of the world, China and Jilin by the planting area, output, consumption, status of supply and demand, characteristics and trends, analyzing the traffic and path of corn in Jilin province in recent years, paving the way for the analysis on stakeholders of corn supply chain in the subsequent chapters.The fourth chapter contains empirical analysis on household behavior and the influencing factors. This section is based on 258 survey dates coming from Song Yuan,YuShu,Nong' An and other 21 cities in Jilin province. It analyzes the factors that influencing peasant households' choices between grain brokers and food processing enterprises when they want to sell them. The results show that the peasant households sell grain to brokers depending on three factors whose regression coefficients are significant obvious in the model of Logistic. The factors are facilities of storage, means of grain delivery and the distance from the grain depots. Peasant households sell grain to food processing enterprises also depending on three factors whose regression coefficients are significant obvious in the model of Logistic. The factors are grain production, means of grain delivery and satisfaction of the price. What should be noted is that means of grain delivery influence not only the food brokers but also the food processing enterprises.The fifth chapter analyzes how corn processing enterprises select partners and its influencing factors. This section is based on the dates from 45 corn processing and leading enterprises in Jilin (above the county level), making empirical analysis on how corn processing enterprises select partners and its influencing factors by multiple Logistic model. The results show that the nature of enterprises, the total assets of enterprises, the relationships with the upstream suppliers, the types of service providing for farmers, the ways accessing to corn, the means of transferring information with upstream suppliers, the degree of upstream suppliers understanding enterprise, the amount and diversification of processing corn and so on benefit the behavior of corn processing enterprises choosing parters.The satisfaction of supply chain collaboration and he diversification of logistics cost of corn processing enterprises have negative impact on choosing. The business enterprises engaging in, histories of the enterprises and the means of transport corn did not pass the significance test.Chapter VI contains empirical analysis on the efficiency of corn logistics enterprises in the chain. It analyzes the organizational efficiency and operational efficiency of supply chain through the dates from 38 corn logistics enterprises. The results show that:there is only one logistics enterprise located in the first quadrant in Jilin province, accounting for 2.63%. There are two logistics enterprises located in the second quadrant, accounting for 5.26%. There are thirty-one logistics enterprises located in the third quadrant, accounting for 81.58%.There are four logistics enterprises located in the fourth quadrant, accounting for 10.53%.Chapter VII contains empirical analysis on the performance of corn supply chain. The section surveys 45 corn processing enterprises (above the county level),38 logistics companies and 79 corn farmers in the partnership of corn supply chain. it researches on the relationship between management of corn supply chain and efficiency of corn supply chain by constructing a structural equation model and using the software of AMOS 17.0. It shows that the uncertainty of internal and external environment is not conducive to establish the cooperation among members. The aspiration of cooperation among the members of the supply chain and the capability of collaboration have a positive impact on the efficiency of entire supply chain, and the capability of collaboration have greater impact.Chapter VIII contains the research conclusions and suggestions. This section shows the conclusions based on study of previous chapters and proposes some efficacious suggestions.