Logistics Models in E-Commerce

Third Party Logistics in E-Commerce Environment in China

Business-to-Business E-Commerce in a Logistics Domain

Today companies outsource part of the service provisioning to other companies that are not part of their core competence. Companies can use current workflow management systems to control the progress of the service process within one organisation. However, with business-to-business e-commerce, service processes extend beyond organisational boundaries and the workflow management paradigm should ...

Multi-agent framework for third party logistics in E-commerce

In an e-commerce environment, the third party logistics (3PL) takes charge of the logistics design, delivery, storage and transportation in a supply chain with its professional and complete value-added services. Beginning with an analysis of the relationships between the 3PL and supply chain members, the authors suggest that only when the 3PL reengineers its logistics business process to accomm...

The Development Strategy of E-Commerce Logistics in Beijing

“Warehouse explosion phenomenon” of e-commerce, the last one kilometer electricity supplier logistics problems and high cost of logistics and other issues, has become a troubled electricity supplier and logistics companies the biggest problem. Therefore the major commercial enterprises have chosen enterprise logistics operation model according to the different characteristics of their respectiv...

Shaping the E-Commerce Logistics Strategy: a Decision Framework

e‐commerce is expected to radically change customers’ shopping experiences. Market figures show that even though e‐commerce has already taken off, the path to realizing its full potential is still long. In the physical goods segments, the strategic importance of logistics ‐ both as a cost driver and as a service enabler ‐ has been recognised by the majority of comp...