Reverse logistics and 3PL in the Czech Republic

Logistics Outsourcing and 3PL Challenges

Logistics has been an important part of every economy and every business entity. The worldwide trend in globalization has led to many companies outsourcing their logistics function to Third-Party Logistics (3PL) companies, so as to focus on their core competencies. This paper attempts to broadly identify and categorize the challenges faced by 3PL companies and discover potential gaps for future...

Hantaviruses in the Czech Republic

Chlamydiae, and plant plastids, and uses a specific DNA probe. We considerably decreased the risk of horizontal and vertical contamination of the PCR reaction by using uracil and uracil-N-glycosylase and by keeping reaction cups closed since the first amplification cycle. More importantly, our study showed that Parachlamydia DNA is rarely found in bronchoalveolar lavage samples (0.083%). This s...

Genomics in the Czech Republic

The Functional Genomics and Disease 2003 conference was held at the Hilton Hotel in Prague, the beautiful capital of the Czech Republic, on 14–17 May 2003. This conference provided an ideal forum for European specialists to converge in the geographical centre of Europe to discuss the progress made in, and future prospects for, the important field of genomics in disease, and presented an opportu...

Joint logistics and financial services by a 3PL firm

Integrated logistics and financial services have been practiced by third party logistics (3PL) firms for years; however, the literature has been silent on the value of 3PL firms as credit providers in budget-constrained supply chains. This paper investigates an extended supply chain model with a supplier, a budget-constrained retailer, a bank, and a 3PL firm, in which the retailer has insuffici...

Evidence from the Czech Republic