Third party Logistics is a new type of industry where the firm‘s logistics activities can be outsourced. The concept of Third party logistics has been developed from the need to extend transportation services by transportation companies to its customers. Many manufacturing industries turned to logistics outsourcing to restructure their distribution networks and gain competitive advantages. This...

Chapter 1: China logistics market overview: 1.1 China Economy overview 1.2 A huge logistics market 1.3 China logistics market features 1.4 Regulatory constraints Chapter 2: Logistics infrastructure overview and analysis: 2.1 The development of China Internet network and telephone system 2.2 Transportation analysis: Highway and trucking service 2.3 Transportation analysis: Railroad industry 2.4 ...

This chapter reports the findings of a questionnaire survey on the adoption and utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) – an important tool to enhance efficiency and responsiveness in modern-day supply chains – in the Chinese third-party logistics (3PL) industry. As a global manufacturing base, China has a burgeoning 3PL industry serving a large number of domestic firms as...

parties involved, directly or indirectly, in fulfilling a customer request. Suppliers, customers, and other third-party providers share information and plans in order to maximize the efficiency and competitiveness of the overall supply chain (Ellram and Cooper, 1990). Each organization has a distinctive role to play and seamless transactions and value addition by each partner decides the overal...

Corporation’s own-running logistics are often inefficient, so more and more corporations would like to choose outsource logistics, that is, corporations use the third-party logistics suppliers to provide logistics services. The third-party logistics can simplify the distribution sectors, transport reasonably, use and allocate rationally the existing resources, and avoid the problems of funds us...

Supplier selection is a critical activity for organizations, because it directly affects their performance and affects the productivity and competitiveness of the firm. It has been widely accepted in academic literature that this problem has a clear strategic nature multi definition. Third Party Logistics Providers (3PL) have been widely promoted by the phenomenon of outsourcing, on which compa...

The problem of selecting 3PL (Third Party Logistics) suppliers is a major issue in the management supply chain and improvement production manufacturing company. A supplier can be defined as company that provides contract logistics services to manufacturer, or main user product service. It called third party because provider does not own products but participates between manufacturer given produ...

We consider a supply chain in which a producer supplies a fresh product, through a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, to a distant market where a distributor purchases and sells it to end customers. The product is perishable, both the quantity and quality of which may deteriorate during the process of transportation. The market demand is random, sensitive to the selling price as well as the ...

In this paper, a case study conducted on a small third-party logistics (3PL) company in Hong Kong is presented. This company is interesting in that it has been designated as the “king” of Hong Kong’s 3PL (in-bound) logistics companies. The company has been successful in its overall business performance and in satisfying customers. This company’s strategic alliances with both clients and custome...