Impact Analysis of Payment Model on Logistics Information Platform Based on System Dynamics

Abstract

To explore whether or not the problems caused by the payment model drawback of Logistics Information Platforms (LIPs) relates to themselves, the system dynamics (SD) was introduced and constructed the systematic causal relationships among the offline-pay mode drawback and the LIPs described by the causality diagram. It shows the current offline-pay mode used by LIPs would cause decline of their user volume and operational reputation. Accordingly online model was suggested. Furthermore, an system dynamics model to prove whether the online payment model improve the platform operation was established by using VENSIM DSS, where the improvements were denoted by impact of online payment model on the credit value of LIPs. A couple of simulations has been carried out through the model above and verified that the online payment model with different scales can improve the credit value on platform.