Analysis on the formation of the third party logistics strategic alliance

Abstract

With the fast development of logistics in our country, the competition between logistics companies becomes more and more fierce. In order to adapt to the change of environment, the third party logistics strategic alliance becomes a necessary trend. The strategic alliances and third party's logistics all have been studied more in the management science domain nowadays. In the realistic meaning, strategic alliance can improve the enterprise's performance obviously through the optimization of supply and cooperation of enterprises, and third party logistics can strengthen the key business and the competitiveness themselves through wrapping up to logistics outside. Strategic alliance is a new competition pattern of era of economy. Choosing a right cooperative partner possibly decides the fate of the majority of strategic alliances. High speed rail express is a good example to introduce strategic alliance. The reason to form strategic alliance and how to form strategic alliance are very important. What is more, the collaboration partner selection plays an important role in strategic alliance. Finally, we present a case where using AHP method to select the most suitable collaboration partner.