Research On The Third Party Logistics Selection Based On The FAHP-DEA Model

Along with the development of global economy, the market competition environment change hugely, technology develops and characteristics and diversified demands shorten the life cycle of product continuously, facing with pressure in shortening the time of delivery, cutting down logistics cost, and raising customer service level, business enterprises concern limited resources in core business to obtain competitive advantage, therefore outsource logistics operations to the third party logistics service company.As a new type of industrial, modern third party logistics develop fastly since the early 90s,it has extensive concern among business and theories field. Lots of third party logistics enterprises appeared, which develop in various level for the influences of resources and environment, how to select the right third party logistics service supplier is important to establish the outsource strategy for enterprises.This thesis analyzes the related theories of the third party logistics selecting, characteristics and creation reasons, researches on the principle, method and step of the TPL supplier selection for a business enterprise while facing with logistics outsourcing. Analyzing the key factors influencing the success of logistics outsourcing both on the supplier and demander's angle, this thesis uses the research method integrating qualitative and quantitative analysis, establishes synthetic performance evaluation indicators system of the third party logistics supplier from five angles, namely basic qualities, logistics operation cost, financial status and future development ability. It integrates theories and models,models and application researches into the model of FAHP-DEA to synthetically evaluate the performance of the third party logistics. The model integrates the merit of Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) and Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA), it makes the evaluation match reality for considering subjective and objective preference. It uses fuzzy method to the qualitative indicators to improve their compairitiveness.By experimental research, verify the validity of FAHP-DEA model. As the result of the model giving, we not only can select the relative DEA effective suppliers among the list TPL suppliers, but also can analyze the inputs and outputs of the company, therefore enterprise can select the most right third party logistics service company according its need.