Currently, the logistics business is one of sectors that has a high growth rate, this in line with increasing needs people's lives accompanied by increasingly sophisticated technological developments. The Logistics Market Indonesia 2020 – 2024 shows graph continues to increase, meaning always growing from year year. ABC Company grandson Pertamina group and subsidiary Patra Niaga as Commercial T...

Third party logistics (3PL) service providers play a growing responsibility in the management of supply chain. The global and competitive business environment of 3PLs has recognized the significance of a speedy and proficient service towards the customers in the past few decades. Particularly in warehousing, distribution, and transportation services, a number of customers anticipate 3PLs to imp...

This article investigates the Brazilian third-party logistics (3PL) sector which, increasingly competitive, offers clients a wide variety of services/information technologies in the quest to bolster efficiency. The main research objective is to determine which variables significantly impact 3PLs scale efficiency by applying two-stage DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis). Based on an unbalanced panel...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a clustering approach to segment supply chain partners in the automobile industry and prioritize services offered by third party logistics service (3PL) providers. Design/methodology/approach – In total, 98 automobile and auto-parts manufacturers are surveyed to identify service needs, preferences, and outsourcing commitments. By applying a two-...

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...

Growing environmental concerns have motivated businesses to carefully assess the environmental impact of their products and services at all stages of a life-cycle. Reverse logistics plays an important role in achieving ‘‘green supply chains’’ by providing customers with the opportunity to return the warranted and/or defective products to the manufacturer. An efficient reverse logistics structur...