The third Party Logistics Development Present Situation and Restricting Factors
- DOI
- 10.2991/lemcs-14.2014.86How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- The third party logistics; Domestic logistics; Quality of service; Supply and demand; The supply chain
- Abstract
Third Party Logistics (Third Party Logistics, the TPL or 3PL),It is the 1980’s concept in Europe and the United States developed countries, is associated with the concept of modern Logistics theories, outsourcing is a business management concept was introduced into Logistics management area and produce a new Logistics form. Third party logistics is relative to the first party (the shipper or the client) and the second party (the consignee), itself does not have the goods, also do not participate in goods trading, but he is a link between the first party and second party, belong to the intermediate link of logistics, by professional logistics enterprises in the form of the contract within a certain period of time to provide all or part of the services, including transportation, storage, packaging, distribution services and integration of the single links such as integrated logistics services or series multi-function logistics services.This article from the meaning of the third party logistics and the developed countries and China's development situation, analyzed the European and American countries of the third party logistics development situation, and compared with the actual situation in our country, to analyze our country some problems existing in the development of third party logistics, tend to be more international third party logistics development in China.
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- © 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yuying Liu PY - 2014/05 DA - 2014/05 TI - The third Party Logistics Development Present Situation and Restricting Factors BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Logistics, Engineering, Management and Computer Science PB - Atlantis Press SP - 365 EP - 368 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/lemcs-14.2014.86 DO - 10.2991/lemcs-14.2014.86 ID - Liu2014/05 ER -