The impact of supply chain digitization and logistics efficiency on the competitiveness of industrial enterprises

This paper selects data from Chinese listed companies in the industrial sector from 2011 to 2022 as samples to explore the impact of supply chain digitization and logistics efficiency on the competitiveness of industrial enterprises. The study finds that the degree of supply chain digitization can enhance the competitiveness of industrial enterprises; logistics efficiency can help industrial enterprises improve their competitiveness; environmental regulation plays a positive moderating role in the relationship between logistics efficiency and the competitiveness of industrial enterprises; there is heterogeneity in the impact of supply chain digitization on the competitiveness of state-owned industrial enterprises and non-state-owned industrial enterprises, with a greater impact on the competitiveness of state-owned industrial enterprises than on non-state-owned ones. There is a significant difference in the impact of logistics efficiency on the competitiveness of state-owned industrial enterprises and non-state-owned industrial enterprises, with a noticeably greater impact on the competitiveness of non-state-owned industrial enterprises than on state-owned ones.