The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in many fields is based on total flexibility of the weights. However, the problem of allowing total flexibility of the weights is that the values of the weights obtained by solving the unrestricted DEA program are often in contradiction to prior views or additional available information. Also, many applications of DEA assume complete discretionary of d...

This paper presents a survey of Indian third-party logistics (3PL) providers and compares the state of the industry with that in 2004 based on an earlier survey. The 3PL industries of India and North America are also compared. The survey finds that the Indian 3PL industry lags behind North America in terms of global reach and breadth of service. Indian 3PL providers also underperform in key var...

In this paper, we investigated a third-party logistics (3PL) provider evaluation problem considering social sustainability as one of the important evaluation criteria. Since the 3PL service is mainly dependent on both transport vehicles and employees, managing them from the viewpoint of social sustainability has become a critical issue. Thus, 3PL providers need to be concerned about not only th...

Logistics is a fast growing business sector in Turkey as well as the rest of the world. The need businesses have to transport, store and deliver goods is now acknowledged as a core factor building the product cost. Thus companies offering service in this sector basically combine needs of different customers and cater to all of them to take down the logistics costs, and therefore the product cos...

This paper investigates pricing and ordering decisions in a supply chain comprised of two competing manufacturers, dominant retailer, third-party logistics (3PL) provider. Product distribution functions may be implemented by the 3PL provider manufacturers. The advantages outsourcing lie lower cost professional service, which affect decision-making members. adopts novel approach to outsourcing, ...

• The field of the study is optimization supply chain organization. We consider a cooperation model between manufacturer and 3PL provider. want to minimize inventory costs, transportation costs tardiness penalty costs. propose MILP models three metaheuristic resolution methods compare them. This paper presents two-stage problem at operational level involving third-party logistics provider (3PL ...

Abstract With the development and advancement of reverse logistics concepts and practice, the evaluation and selection of vendors or partners for the specific function of reverse logistics support becomes more important. The factors that play an important role in selecting a third-party reverse logistics provider are different than the factors for selecting a forward provider. These factors are...

The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in many fields is based on total flexibility of the weights. However, the problem of allowing total flexibility of the weights is that the values of the weights obtained by solving the unrestricted DEA program are often in contradiction to prior views or additional available information. Also, many applications of DEA assume complete discretionary of d...

An intelligent agent-based framework that supports fourth-party logistics (4PL) operations on the web is proposed in this paper. In our system, customers specify job requests over the web dynamically. An e-Market Place allows intelligent third-party logistics (3PL) agents to bid for customers’ job requests. The intelligence lies on the e-Market Place to optimally decide which agents’ bids shoul...

In this work we present a collaborative model for logistics process management addressing the problem of the integration of activities of a 3 party logistics (3PL) operator. The scope of a 3PL operator is to achieve a balance between the warehouse and transportation costs and customer service level. In our model we define a collaborative network in which the 3PL operator interacts with subcontr...