Synergy Degree Evaluation Based on Synergetics for Sustainable Logistics Enterprises

Abstract

Today, logistics activities have become a major source of pollution that affects the environment and green logistics is becoming a hot topic. A logistics company's operating strategy determines the direction of logistics activities and impact degree of logistics activities on the environment. And in logistics enterprises, there is a direct relationship between efficiency and collaboration as collaboration can reduce logistics costs and the negative impact of the bullwhip effect and increase the service level. Synergy degree evaluation, therefore, is crucial to analyze collaboration, identify vulnerabilities, promote development and is also a key step in building a green logistics system. This paper employs Synergetics to comprehensively evaluate the synergy degree in sustainable logistics enterprises. First, Synergetics is introduced to evaluate the synergy degree of sustainable logistics enterprises and the basic Synergetics principles are presented. Second, based on the Law of the Factors of Production, the synergy elements and logistics enterprise content is divided into three main factors: subject elements, object elements and facility and equipment elements. Then, a measurement model and framework for the synergy degree of logistics enterprises is built. Finally, a case study is given to verify the effectiveness of the proposed model and framework. It was found that the higher the logistics enterprise synergy degree, the higher the efficiency. influence on firm performance, which enabled the supply chain partners to achieve synergies and superior performance. Many organizations, such as Dell and Wal-Mart, have achieved mutual benefits from supply chain collaboration [13,14]. Multi-enterprise collaboration has also been examined. For example, Kefah [15] developed an integrated Game Theory (GT) approach for the coordination of multi-enterprise Supply Chains (SCs) in a competitive uncertain environment. Improving the collaboration between large and small-medium enterprises in the automobile production sector has been shown to be important for the profitability and sustainability of the collaborating companies [16]. However, there has not been a great deal of research into inter-departmental collaboration within an enterprise even though this could have a major influence on cost effectiveness and shipping time efficiency [17][18][19].In addition to this, synergy and complexity have a great impact on each other. The greater the degree of synergy among members, the more obvious synergy effects and the more complex coordination behaviors are produced [20]. An integrated supply model was proposed to formulate the problem of consignment-store-based complex supply chain optimization [21]. Tamás Bányai et al. demonstrated an enhanced harmony search algorithm to find the optimum make-or-buy solution of a given maintenance related supply chain complexity problem [22] and Danping Lin et al. have taken complexity as the technical factor when they adopt Internet of Things (IOT) in the agricultural supply chain [23]. Method...

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