This paper introduces a Time-based Competitive Strategy into express industry, which seeks to establish competitive advantage for express companies. According to analyzing the feasibility of time management based on VRIO model, it can be considered that time-based competition is an effective strategy to help express company obtain success. The strategy includes four connotations and two methods. It requires the express companies to integrate time saving, precision control, quick response and customer-oriented into competition. Simultaneously, to be a time-based competitor, express delivery enterprises have to pay more attention to the time management of the whole operational process and the optimizing of customer-oriented services.
The classical logistics facility location models seldom lay emphasis on time, which is a critical issue for a company to gain its competitive advantage nowadays. Some scholars study maximal covering location problem based on time-satisfaction, but most of them have not taken the consumption of time cost into account. This paper presents a new location model which incorporates time cost compared with previous approaches of time satisfaction. The model is initially developed based on the integer programming, whose objective function is subject to the maximization of total satisfaction and the minimization of total cost. Finally, it makes precise analysis taking the case of a regional network layout optimization. The computational result proves the feasibility and value of this model in its practical application.
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