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...

Since the selection of middle managers is critical to the development of organizations for third-party logistics service providers (3PLs), how do the organizations of 3PLs select and recruit competent middle managers? The decision-making for middle managers selection poses a multi-criteria problem and faces a fuzzy environment. Hence, the aim of this paper is to develop a fuzzy multiple criteri...

The use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in many fields is based on total flexibility of the weights. However, the problem of allowing total flexibility of the weights is that the values of the weights obtained by solving the unrestricted DEA program are often in contradiction to prior views or additional available information. Also, many applications of DEA assume complete discretionary of d...

Purpose – This research aims to determine the current situation of outsourcing logistics activities in Turkey, a country which has a great potential for logistics activities among the surrounding continents because of its geographical location. Design/methodology/approach – Survey analysis was conducted with 250 of the top 500 Turkish firms specified by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce for the ...

Background: Global supply chain complexity and increased logistics outsourcing have made global chains more vulnerable to disruptions (SCDs). The proliferation of network partners has changed the role outsourced providers be strategic. However, this changing comes with responsibility for coordination alignment during disruption recovery (SCDR). Successful strategic (SSCA) may improve overall pe...

As competition in the cross-border logistics-service market intensifies and demand rises, enterprises with third-party logistics (3PL) combine logistical financial services to provide comprehensive services. This study considers a secondary supply chain consisting of e-commerce enterprise 3PL enterprise. When lack funds, can them inventory pledge loans. Thus, we establish Stackelberg game model...

We consider a supply chain in which a producer supplies a fresh product, through a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, to a distant market where a distributor purchases and sells it to end customers. The product is perishable, both the quantity and quality of which may deteriorate during the process of transportation. The market demand is random, sensitive to the selling price as well as the ...