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...

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>This paper investigates decisions in a three-echelon closed-loop supply chain composed of one manufacturer, retailer, and third-party logistics provider (3PL), with the retailer being dominant. Inspired by game theory, we develop an equilibrium model for retailer-led, under outsourcing. We derive optimal forward reverse each member. This article analyzes effec...

Supply chain risk management is an important activity in current supply chain management. Operational risk is one of the most important risks in supply chains. The operational risk assessment process includes risk identification and evaluation and prioritization. On the other hand, the participation of Third Party Logistics providers (3PL) in supply chains has been increasing, and it is importa...

This paper considers a pickup and delivery problem in automobile logistics. In the daily operations of third-party logistics company (3PL), decisions must be made for two kinds demands: delivering finished automobiles from an outbound warehouse to distribution centers (DCs) transferring among DCs according specific customer orders. The is assign set heterogeneous auto-carriers deliver them thei...

The customer of AggregatorCompany for Logistics (ACL) faces a problem when creating an order in the aggregatorlogistics platform. They have difficulty making as there are lot ofthird-Party Logistic (3PL) alternatives available but they do not anyreferences which 3PL should select. This study helps tochoose best by determining suitable criteria. study's objectiveis to build Multi-Criteria Decisi...

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...

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 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...