The adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) is one of the most critical areas of innovation for third-party logistics service providers (3PLs). ICT is seen as tool for achieve service differentiation and improving connectivity with other supply chain partner. Nevertheless, many logistics service companies had failed to use ICT to gain competitive advantage as the implementati...

M. P. M. HENDRIKS∗, D. ARMBRUSTER∗,†,¶, M. LAUMANNS‡,‖, E. LEFEBER∗,§ and J. T. UDDING∗ ∗Department of Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Networks Group, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, P. O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven, The Netherlands †School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, 85287, USA ‡Institute for Operations Research, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, ...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper investigates decisions in a three-echelon closed-loop supply chain composed of one manufacturer, retailer, and third-party logistics provider (3PL), with the retailer being dominant. Inspired by game theory, we develop an equilibrium model for retailer-led, under outsourcing. We derive optimal forward reverse each member. This article analyzes effec...

In this paper, we develop a game-theoretic model that studies the contract design problem of a third party logistics buyer when he is faced with a third party logistics provider and the quality of service and the cost of providing the service are private information to the latter. We apply the Revelation Principle to our analysis and characterise the optimal contract. We show that the contract ...

With the effects of COVID-19 pandemic, e-commerce trend is driving faster, significantly impacting supply chains around world. Thus, importance logistics and chain functions has been amplified in almost every business that ships physical goods. In Vietnam, service sector seen rapid expansion. Since more businesses are seeking third-party (3PL) providers to outsource functions, this article aims...

This paper studies the revenue of simple mechanisms in settings where a third-party data provider is present. When no data provider is present, it is known that simple mechanisms achieve a constant fraction of the revenue of optimal mechanisms. The results in this paper demonstrate that this is no longer true in the presence of a third party data provider who can provide the bidder with a signa...

The customer of AggregatorCompany for Logistics (ACL) faces a problem when creating an order in the aggregatorlogistics platform. They have difficulty making as there are lot ofthird-Party Logistic (3PL) alternatives available but they do not anyreferences which 3PL should select. This study helps tochoose best by determining suitable criteria. study's objectiveis to build Multi-Criteria Decisi...