Supply Chain Environment, Third-party Logistics Companies And Shippers Collaborative Relationship Study

In the last few years, for the challenge of the increasingly vigorous market competition, many manufacturing companies make use of logistics outsourcing to restructure supply chain. With the implementing of these strategies the need for the third party logistics has also increased, the collaborative relationship between third party logistics and it's customer being concerned. The key factor of success logistics outsourcing is how to coordinate the relationship of the parties in cooperation and develop long-term stable collaborative relationship.Because the development of the third party logistics in our country still in the stage in start, there is a difference between the current logistics service and the demand of the manufacturing companies, at the same time some problems in the relationship of the third party logistics and it's customer exist. The solutions of these problems are depended on the idea change and the creativity of cooperation in both parties. With the application of the business strategy alliance theories in the logistics outsourcing, this paper studied the establishment and choice of the collaborative relationship; the coordination of activities between two different organizations in supply chain environment.This paper started with the necessity of establishing the cooperation relationship of the third party logistics and it's customer , analyse the choice of collaborative relationship and the factors that affect the collaborative relationship ,the types of the collaborative are also be discussed. The main content of this paper is how to use different forms of lateral coordination mechanisms to solve the conflicts between two companies. Under the quantitative model, analyzed the price between the third party logistics and it's customer under the different circumstance and compared both parties' contribution to the supply chain, then solved the profits distribution from the point of investment return rater. Finally, analysed the development trend of the collaborative relationship.