Research On The Evaluation Of3PL Service Providers

Nowadays, in the context of fierce competition and meticulous division of social labor, the logistics outsourcing has become the most effective way to reduce the cost of logistics and improve the core competence of the enterprises.The advantages of3PL depend on the strength and level of3PL service providers, therefore, the selection of appropriate3PL service providers has become the key of business outsourcing. Evaluation indicators system and evaluation methodology are the main contents of evaluation and selection of3PL. Only through setting up appropriate evaluation indicators system and selecting proper evaluation methodology, the enterprises can select the best3PL service providers; and only in this way, the enterprises and3PL service providers can exert their own advantages, coordinate effectively and achieve the purpose of multi win.Based on the incorporeity and complexity of3PL, this paper adopts the research methodology of qualitative and quantitative and makes a good combination of theory and practice, methodology and case, model and application. This paper also uses preface relation method to confirm the weight of the evaluation indicators and sets up3PL evaluation model based on grey relational analysis.After a deep research to the documentations about3PL service providers at home and abroad, directed to the deficiency of current evaluation indicators system, the author investigates and interviews staffs in the enterprises and professors in the universities whose jobs refer to logistics, and then redesign the3PL evaluation indicators system. Next, SPSS statistical analysis software is used to do descriptive statistical analysis, project analysis, factor analysis, and reliability and validity analysis to the evaluation indicators system and a complete and scientific3PL evaluation indictors system is obtained. After that, the weight of the evaluation indicators is determined by preface relation method. At last, a case about China national offshore oil corporation Shenyang sales branch is introduced in this paper, and the application of indicators system and evaluation model are extended.