| International 3PL providers have added financial services into their supply chain management solutions, including Collect on Delivery, Trade Financing, Mortgage Loan, Inventory Financing, Factoring etc. However, national 3PL providers are unacquainted with those services. This article emphasized on analyzing the concept of " Financial Logistics" and the importance of providing this kind of service for those national 3PL companies. Based on study of international 3PL's practice, this article brought forward the models of "Financial Logistics" that Chinese companies could access from a perspective of the whole supply chain management. During the practice, companies should pay attention to find out those hazards and take risk control. At last, this article concluded the actuality of financial logistics services in China and the bottlenecks of next steps. National 3PL providers could choose the most feasible model to run business according to their status. |