The Logistics Industry Development Strategy

3PL and eCommerce are popular words now days.In this article,with many years rich working experience in logistics industry and the knowledge got from MBA study,the author did an analysis on China 3PL strength/weakness/opportunity/threaten, introduced the lessons learned from an live project which company I implemented an eCustoms system based on RosettaNet,in order to offer some practical suggestion to the Information system buildup of China 3PL industry.Started with the background and purpose induction,the author articulated the theoretical and practical meaning of this subject,and the analysis structure。The basics of Logistics and eCommerce were introduced,and the co-relation between these two was discussed,followed by a brief introduction of Import/Export process and the progress of eCustoms.By working through the RosettaNet/eCustoms project done by company I, the author subtracted the lessons learned from this project.Those lessons include hwo to get alignment among all parties,lack of RosettaNet capability and how to price it.Based on the above,the author articulated the scalability of company I's RosettaNet based eCustoms solution in China Import/Export,and proposed three steps:First build and improve the RosettaNet e-Customs capability within Cusotms,2^nd roll out to brokers and 3^rd publish beneficial policies to attract import/export companies to adopt,instead of manual clearance.At the end of the article,after the SWOT analysis on China 3PL,the author proposed some practical suggestion on how to develop the eCommerce capability for China 3PL based on the lesson learned from company I's solution:led by government and/or logistics industry associations,set up public information exchange platform;pitch into the high value-added service area:VMI and JIT.