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...

We study the pricing problem for a third-party-logistics (3PL) provider that provides warehousing and transportation services. When customers arrive at the 3PL provider, they specify the delivery dates for their freight, and before the specified delivery dates, their freight is stocked in the 3PL provider’s warehouse. We propose a dynamic pricing strategy (DPS) and develop a stochastic-nonlinea...

Third-party logistics (3PL) service providers are crucial to achieving sustainability in supply chain management (SCM). (3PLSP) identified such a way that they can help firm fulfill its targeted objectives. The choice of 3PLSP must take into account broad selection criteria pertinent both current and future needs. Various modelling techniques have been applied evaluate select 3PLSP. For the eva...

This study presents a prototype of the integrated logistic information system (ILIS) in the Google cloud computing environment. The ILIS is purpose to optimize resources in logistics business area, such as vehicles, human resources and fuel. This system is targeting to the small and medium-sized third-party logistics (3PL) company that are difficult to establish IT infrastructure, by providing ...

Abstract Supply-chain management of the forest industry focuses on improving client services which requires efficient collaboration between organizations in practice. Therefore, third party logistics (3PL) and fourth (4PL) companies were analyzed using a survey inductive organizational gap-analysis. The supply-chain 3PLs asked for better quality information from factories logistics. They also n...

Environmental sustainability is an area of increasing importance for third party logistics (3PL) companies. As the design and implementation of services requires interaction between buyer and 3PL, the 3PLs are in a critical position to support the efforts towards greening operations of different supply chain participants. However the literature in this field reflects a gap between the perspecti...

An important service provided by third-party logistics (3PL) firms is to manage the inbound logistics of raw materials and components from multiple suppliers to several manufacturing plants. A key challenge for these 3PL firms is to determine how to coordinate and consolidate the transportation flow, so as to get the best overall logistics performance. One tactic is to establish consolidation h...

We consider an integrated production and distribution scheduling problem faced by a typical make-to-order manufacturer which relies on a third-party logistics (3PL) provider for finished product delivery to customers. In the beginning of a planning horizon, the manufacturer has received a set of orders to be processed on a single production line. Completed orders are delivered to customers by a...