Appraisal on the third party logistics enterprises’ core competence

Abstract

With the embedded development of logistics theory and practice, the third party logistics (TPL) appeared. It’s a new logistics form and it’s the result of professional and integrative logistics. The rapid development of economics global process and application of information technology makes more and more enterprises inclined to put the logistics outsourcing to the third party logistics enterprises. The third party logistics will be the mainstream of logistics development in the 21st century. So, the appraisal to the third party logistics enterprise’s core competence is imperative under the situation. The paper analyzed the third party logistics enterprise’s core competence, and established the index system of third party logistics enterprise’s core competence. On the basis of investigation about indexes of the third party logistics enterprise’s core competence, it applied information entropy to reduce index system, and found out more proper appraisal indexes of the third party logistics enterprises. Then it applied improved BP neutral network to appraise the third party logistics enterprise’s core competence. Via case analysis, proved this method’s tangibility and validity to appraise the third party logistics enterprise’s core competence.