Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Mechatronics, Control and Electronic Engineering

The third party logistics development present situation and restricting factors

Authors
Xiaolei Zhang
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Xiaolei Zhang
Available Online March 2014.
DOI
10.2991/mce-14.2014.170How to use a DOI?
Keywords
The third party logistics; Domestic logistics; Quality of service; Supply and demand; The supply chain
Abstract

Third Party Logistics (Third Party Logistics, the TPL or 3PL),It is the 1980’s concept in Europe and the United States developed countries, is associated with the concept of modern Logistics theories, outsourcing is a business management concept was introduced into Logistics management area and produce a new Logistics form. Third party logistics is relative to the first party (the shipper or the client) and the second party (the consignee), itself does not have the goods, also do not participate in goods trading, but he is a link between the first party and second party, belong to the intermediate link of logistics, by professional logistics enterprises in the form of the contract within a certain period of time to provide all or part of the services, including transportation, storage, packaging, distribution services and integration of the single links such as integrated logistics services or series multi-function logistics services.This article from the meaning of the third party logistics and the developed countries and China's development situation, analyzed the European and American countries of the third party logistics development situation, and compared with the actual situation in our country, to analyze our country some problems existing in the development of third party logistics, tend to be more international third party logistics development in China.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Mechatronics, Control and Electronic Engineering
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems Research
Publication Date
March 2014
ISBN
10.2991/mce-14.2014.170
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1951-6851
DOI
10.2991/mce-14.2014.170How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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