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...

In this paper, we develop a game-theoretic model that studies the contract design problem of a third party logistics buyer when he is faced with a third party logistics provider and the quality of service and the cost of providing the service are private information to the latter. We apply the Revelation Principle to our analysis and characterise the optimal contract. We show that the contract ...

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...

This volume is a collection of commissioned contributions, edited by James H Bookbinder, to follow up on a special issue of the journal Transportation Research E, edited by the same editor, which focused on Global Logistics. One of the goals of this volume is to have perspectives of logistics researchers in different geographic areas. Part I consists of four chapters. The first chapter by Chen ...

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...