Abstract: To addressedthe issue that high costs of traditional distribution and can not meet the transportationdemand of low-volume, multi-batch, high frequency. Use the theory of resourcesintegrated and the theory of virtual organization, and established a model of athird-party logistics (3PL) -led collaborative distribution virtual enterprise.And using AutoMod simulation software proved the feasibility and cost synergiesof collaborative distribution, study shows that the implementation ofcooperative distribution is conducive to save social resources and beneficial theimplementation of environmental logistics and internet of things.
Key words: collaborativedistribution; virtual organization; simulate
1. Integrated logistics resources
1.1 The essence of integrated logistics
American scholar Arch W. Shaw madethe first "Physical Distribution" (PD) concepts in 1915(Arch W.Show,1915). In 1985, the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) defined it using the“logistics”, followed by a 3 changes (He Mingke, 2002).
“PD” shift to “logistics”,is not just a problem of changing another word, logistics as a managementapproach and a system, its essence lies in integration, and the result ofintegration is to make the fragmented, chaotic state without order to theintegration and the orderly state. PD only achieved integration in the field ofselling finished products, and “logistics” will be integrated extended to rawmaterials procurement, supply and manufacturing fields, integration objects in additionto tangible objects, but also extended to the information. Despite “logistics”achieved the integration of internal logistics, but not beyond the scope of theenterprise, not with the related downstream business partnership, and there isno sharing of resources and information so will appear the phenomenon of demandamplification. Therefore, it’s necessary to cross the borders of individualenterprises, and then extended the logistics integrated to the supply chainupstream and downstream enterprises.