The study aims to analyse warehouse value-added services (VAS) data for a third-party logistics (3PL) service provider, which leads identifying improvements and cost-cutting opportunities in performing VAS clients using Pareto analysis as quality tool. Using case approach, qualitative quantitative were collected from leading 3PL firm Belgium. approach is conducted by applying major steps of ana...

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...

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...

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...

The scientific selection of a third-party reverse logistics service provider (3PRLP) is helpful for enterprises to obtain the expected ecological and economic benefits. Different have different requirements 3PRLP and, thus, should adopt personalized simplified evaluation criteria. However, there lack research on criteria screening. Therefore, this paper proposes screening method based rough set...

The p-median problem has been widely studied in the literature during the last decades especially its linear version. We propose a capacitated p-median problem with concave costs, in which the global cost incurred for each established facility is a concave function of the quantity q delivered by this facility. The unit distribution cost decreases with the increased quantity of output or demand ...

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 fierce competition from the free market has alarmed many companies in transportation industry in Thailand to learn to change and improve their ability to compete in the market. Most of third-party logistics providers (3PLPs) are smallto medium-sized companies that have been in the business for long time but lack of systematic approach to manage fast-changing customers’ demands nowadays. One...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, Taizhou University, Taizhou, Zhejiang 317000, P.R. China Abstract We consider an integrated production and distribution scheduling problem faced by a typical make-to-order manufacturer which relies on a third-party logistics provider for finished product delivery to customers. In the beginning of a planning horizon, the manufac...