The Selection And Management Of 3PLs Partners In The 4PL Market

Recently, that the development of informationalization and economic globalization has expanded the space of logistics operation requires a new role who plays "an integrated management" between the traditional vendors, the manufacturers, and the third party logistics (3PL) service providers. The notion of the fourth-party logistics (4PL) is the outcome of the integrated management style which is executed in the phase of the global logistical planning management.The fourth-party logistics, whose main running model is to provide companies integrated logistics solutions and IT support, emerges as the time require with the co-operation of their partners who can be divided based on their function in the supply chain. Support-type providers devote their knowledge and technology of network or SCM into the 4PL market, without involving in distribution directly. The 3PLs(Third-Party Logistics Service Provider)who act as"executor"for 4PLs(Fourth-Party Logistics Service Provider )in supply chain, plays key role in the 4PL Market.Taking the goal and principals of co-operation into account after reviewing recent literature on partnership and partner selection, a reference 3PLs evaluation system is constructed according to the four proposed index categories: capability, cost, risk and quality of service. On the basis of this, the three-stage partner-selection model is presented for partner selection. In primary selection process it makes a qualification index to eliminate unqulifaction candidates. In screening process,by using AHP model some candidates are selected to optimal process. The optimal process establishes an integer-programming model to solve the multi-objective optimization problem.In view of Principal-Agent risk, A administrative system with parallel structure is founded on the basis of incentive mechanism,contract-checked mechanism and trust mechanism in the members。...