Third-party Logistics Enterprises Pricing Study

With the aggravation of competition, the enterprise must use various kinds of resources and develop the key ability to set up competition advantage. While the enterprise trys to make one's own advantage in the competition, Logistics Outsourcing has been considered to be a creative way. In order to realize this purpose, enterprises are utilizing all services that the third-party logistics service supplier can offer. So, the third-party logistics industry rises quietly, and plays an more and more important role in the logistics industry, it has already become the effective operation mode of western countries' logistics industry.The third—party logistics enterprise will obtain certain remuneration for the goods delivery services to compensate for the expenses taking place during the whole course. Meanwhile, as an enterprise ,it will pursue the maximization of the profit . Based on such a background, this text starts from vehicle route problem and uses the demand-price theory to investigate the problem of fixing the price under the different demand-price elasticity in economics, through making the reasonable price ,the third-party logistics enterprises can make the maximization of the profit.This thesis contains five chapters,as follows:Chapter one is the introduction, includes the research background and the problem, the current situation of domestic and international research and existing problem, also the purpose, the meaning, the content and the achievement of the research in this thesis.Chapter two is about the introduction of relevant problems that this thesis involves, includes the theory of the demand-price in economics and the vehicle route problem. In this chapter, we will make a brief introduction of two problem. First of all , starting from the vehicle route problem , we introduce its definition, classification, the variable, and some other relevant situations. Second part ,weintroduce the theory in economics, open out the relation between price and demand, analyse the concept of the demand-price elasticity and it's different situations.Chapter three bings out the model of question, In the first part, we analyse the cost structure that a car makes an delivery, and derive out relevant cost functions. Second part, on the basis of cost function above-mentioned using the function Profit =!ncome-Cost ,we draws the profit function under the different demand-price elasticities. Finally analyse the different profit function and study price fixing problems.Chapter four is the expansion of the model, considering the reality, the model will be expanded. Regard the homogeneous delivery service that logistics enterprises offered as the common goods, to some customers, these services are the necessities , so the demand lacks elasticity, while some customers may consider these services as luxury goods , The demand of these customers is elastic. This is to say that we should distinguish customer groups , because different customer group has different response when the price of the delivery changed ,so we should consider this kind of situation and expand the modelChapter five contains the conclusions and directions that will be studied in the future, at first .through analysis, we find that profit function increases with the rising of the price at the beginning .and obtains the maximum when the price is at certain point, then if the price continues to rise , the profit will decline on the contrary, so the reasonable price is neither too high nor too low. Third-party logistics enterprise can use the mode and the concrete examples in this thesis to imitate the course of fixing the price of the delivery which enables the course of fixing the price of the delivery more scientific. Then provide several research directions in the future.