Research On The Core Competence Of Fourth Party Logistics Enterprise

At present, our country is becoming "the world's manufacture center". However, as "the third benefit source", logistics turns out to be the "bottle neck" of social economic development. In 2004, the total cost of logistics in China is 2,900 billion yuan, covering 21% of the GDP, which is rather higher than that of developed countries. It wastes a lot social resource and wealth. Fourth party logistics meets the need of logistics system, integrate social logistics resource in the largest degree, shorten logistics time, improve efficiency and reduce environmental pollution. Core competence theory concentrates on collective learning, coordinative resources and potentialities in the corporation, which introduced new ideas about competition and development to the fourth party logistics enterprises.This paper firstly looked back and summarized the course of study on the core competence theory, and composed a theory frame for the following research. Then the paper investigated and analyzed the evolution of fourth logistics enterprises, which suggested that it was necessary for the fourth logistics enterprises to cultivate core competence in the global competition. Based on the characters of fourth party logistics industry, the paper set up an evaluation index system. And then 10 fourth logistics enterprises picked up were evaluated synthetically with catastrophe progression method. The results were explained quantified and qualified by statistics method and core competence theory.. Finally, the paper proposed detailed suggestion and measures to foster and promote core competence for the fourth logistics enterprises as well as the key problems during the execution.