This volume is a collection of commissioned contributions, edited by James H Bookbinder, to follow up on a special issue of the journal Transportation Research E, edited by the same editor, which focused on Global Logistics. One of the goals of this volume is to have perspectives of logistics researchers in different geographic areas. Part I consists of four chapters. The first chapter by Chen ...

The integration of the Just-In-Time (JIT) system with supply chain management has been attracting more and more attention recently. Within the processes of the JIT system, the upstream manufacturer is required to deliver products using smaller delivery lot sizes, at a higher delivery frequency. For the upstream manufacturer who adopts sea transportation to deliver products, a collaborative thir...

In today’s global free market, third-party logistics providers (3PLs) are becoming increasingly important. This paper studies a problem faced by a 3PL operating a warehouse in Shanghai, China, under contract with a major manufacturer of children’s clothing based in the United States. At the warehouse, the 3PL receives textile parcel shipments from the suppliers located in China; each shipment i...

For the special relationship between logistics service quality and customer loyalty under the environment of C2C, on the basis of the three dimensions of Operation Logistics Service Quality, Relationship Logistics Service Quality and Cost Logistics Service Quality, the paper analyzed the relationship between customer satisfaction for third-party logistics service quality and customer loyalty fo...

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...

In this study, we consider a manufacturer that has strategically decided to outsource the company specific reverse logistics (RL) activities to a third-party logistics (3PL) service provider. Given the locations of the collection centers and reprocessing facilities, the RL network design of the 3PL involves finding the number and places of the test centers under supply uncertainty associated wi...

We propose efficient intermodal transportation auctions for the B2B e-commerce logistics problem (ELP). This paper is among the first to consider transaction costs into auctions. In the ELP, the shipper is a B2B e-commerce platform by which a number of online orders between goods sellers and buyers are generated, and 3PLs (third-party logistics providers) can fulfill these online orders. The sh...

Increasing competition as a result of globalization forces companies to focus on the core activities they are specialized in and use outsourcing areas other than these activities. Companies seek outsource their logistics functions partially or completely since this is not main field activity. Thus, faced with problem choosing Third Party Logistics (3PL) service provider that can contribute sust...