Research On Fiancing Warehouse Service Offered By The Third Party Logistics Enterprises

More and more enterprises have been cooperated with the third party logistics companies when they put more emphasis on core competency, risk pooling and cost control after the world war two. As a result, all kinds of professional the third party logistics companies are sprang up. Fierce competence and highly decentralized make the third party logistics companies' profit margin low and it is difficult for them to survive, let alone enlarging the scale. What was worse, some unexpected things such as Financial Tsunami happened in 2008 aggravated the bad conditions. The third party logistics companies need a new business and profits and they need it imperatively. Logistics finance is an innovational service which have a lot of advantages, such as help the company's financing which served by the TPL company, improve the service level of TPL company and assist the related bank to earn more money. More and more professors started to pay attention to this area.There are there common types of logistics financing, warehouse receipt financing, confirmation warehouse and financing warehouse. Warehouse receipt financing and confirmation warehouse are the two models used in the practice and more and more companies are trying to offer this services. As a result, the margin profits become lower and lower and it may become even lower in the future. However, financing warehouse has lots of advantages:the cost is low, easy to carry out, has more margin profits, just name a few. What is more, it can integrate the nodes of the supply chain well and share the profits and risks. All of these advantages make people in this area pay more attention on the model and bring it further in the theory and practices. This paper bring forward a model on how to make a decision on the best financial amount when TPL faced different conditions after analysis the theories and the current situation both at home and abroad. We decide whether offer financing warehouse to the customer by evaluating its credits and profits. After that, we study on how to make a decision on different conditions that can make the TPL company maximum its profits and the risk is limited. First, we introduce what is financing warehouse, its features and its models. In this part, we also analyze the requirements of the third party logistics enterprises that offer financing warehouse services. What is more, we can get the difficulties of these companies and we solve these problems. Then, establish a evaluation model and raise some special index which is suitable for financing warehouse on the reference of the existing index used by banks. By this method, we can decide whether to offer the services with the profits is taken into consideration. After that, we establish a mathematical model and divide it into three different sub-problems based on the sources of financing. Work out the three different sub-problems and we can get the best financing proposals which can maximum TPL company's profits. What is more, we analyze the risks in financing warehouse services and give suggestions. At last, we use a case to testify and judge the model to show that the model can be used in the realities...