The Upgrading Of Logistics Enterprise’s Capabilities Based On The Life-Cycle Theory

With the development of economy and globalizationial competition, the competition in the logistics industry is more powerful. So logistics companies need to consider how to build their own core competitiveness. In order to meet logistics demand and the change, logistics enterprises need to pay more attention to the self improvement and upgrading for maintaining competitive advantage and more customers and business. Currently the improvement of Logistics capability is mainly concentrated in the weak capacity factors based on bottleneck link. It makes the one-sidedness that is improving low-capacity links only and ignoring the correlation between the capabilities. Moreover, the improvement of logistics capability is mostly based on a static basis, the environment is constantly changing, and the logistics enterprises have own growing, development and growth. So this paper, based on the dynamic and continuous improvement perspective in the life-cycle theory, analyzes the characteristics of the logistics enterprises in different stage of life-cycle, the capability maturity of logistics by the Capability Maturity Model, and how to divide the cycle stages of logistics enterprise by the capability maturity. In the last, the paper makes the method for path and the upgrading degree to improve logistics capabilities. The purpose of this article is more suitable to upgrade our abilities from the actual operation and development of logistics enterprises, which has a certain theoretical value and practical significance.Firstly, it analyzes the characteristics of life-cycle stages about logistics businesses. As manufacturing enterprises, logistics enterprises have a periodic law of the life pattern. The performance of logistics capabilities in the various stages will be helpful to understand their contribution for logistics enterprises. So, in this paper, logistics capacity will be divided into four capacity factors:the logistics capacity of infrastructure elements, the logistics capacity of operations and management, the logistics capacity of co-management in supply chain, and the logistics capacity of strategic management.Secondly, it designs the maturity’s evaluation system of logistics capabilities according to the capability maturity model (CMM). Then it calculates the maturity’s value of logistics capabilities by using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. In contrast with the characteristics of the logistics capabilities in every stage, we find that the maturity’s value of logistics capabilities can divide the stage about the life-cycle of logistics enterprises, whose way is found.Thirdly, find the new way to improve the logistics capability. The present improved method is to improve the weak capacity, or the ability which has a large contribution to the logistics enterprise. It has disadvantage that is only focused on someone capability, which is improved but did not achieve the desired effect because of the limited nature of financial and material resources. So it summarizes the improving methods and responses of every stage both qualitative and quantitative sides. The one hand, it summarizes the improved countermeasures, the other hand, it finds the improved path which is determining the order of logistics capabilities by using the decision making trial and evaluation laboratory(DEMATEL), and the degree of logistics capabilities which is measured by using the gray prediction model(GM(1,1)) and CMM. It meets the need and development of logistics enterprises more.Finally, we want to verify their validity by means of case analysis, and to provide some directions and ideas for the upgrading of logistics enterprise’s capabilities from the whole and dynamic point.