In recent years, people's demand becomes more diversification and individuation, so the manufacturers have to centralize their resource on the core competition and outsource their internal logistics to the Third—Party Logistics, abbreviated as TPL. TPL is improving rapidly in recent years.It is known to all that the competition in 21 century is no more located among enterprises, but in all the supply chains. To maximize the supply chain benefit, more and more enterprises trend to establish strategic partnership with TPLs to maintain the stability and the efficiency of the supply chain and the critical step is TPLs selection.Basis on the simple review of TPL and SCM(Supply Chain Management), the paper establishes the index and the model to assess and select the most suitable TPLs, finally, it takes an enterprise for example to explain how to use them in practice. |