Strategic alliances, as a way of effective competition, have long been accepted by the enterprises of the various countries and regions. With the advances in information technology and the increasing of the needs of logistics market, the development strategy of Logistics enterprises, especially for small and medium-sized ones, is to construct partnerships through alliance and share logistics business. Small and medium sized logistics enterprises at a disadvantageous competition in the market, through the alliance to establish partnerships, shared most of the logistics business into the current logistics development strategy. Small and medium enterprises across organizational boundaries through this virtual joint logistics operations can be realized benefit-sharing, share the alliance's operational risks.
In this paper, current status of small and medium-sized logistics enterprises is firstly introduced and the need for establishing logistics alliance is analyzed. Then through resource integration, logistics service integration, organizational integration, culture integration and operational integration, the integration of small and medium-sized logistics enterprises is researched. Besides, Enterprises should not only concern the right choice suited to their mode, and has a clear understanding of the risk existing in strategic alliance. It is necessary to guard against risk to ensure alliance successfully running. And paper discusses the difficulties and problems in integration of small and medium-sized logistics alliance.
Keywords: Strategic alliances, Small and medium sized logistics enterprises’ alliance, Integration mode.
