Knowledge-Based Logistics System of 3PL in P. R. China

Author

Xiao, Hong ; Li, Hongdi ; Yang, Yanmei ; Tang, Xingli

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Chongqing Jiaotong Univ., Chongqing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

20-22 Sept. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Intensified globalization and consequent competitive pressures have reemphasized the importance of third party logistics (3PL) in managing logistics processes as well as customer and supplier relationships within the supply chain management (SCM). 3PL providers and their upstream and downstream parties within the whole chain have usually interacted as disconnected entities in the logistics performance management process.This paper studied the main ideas of the knowledge-based logistics system, The results of testing and applying the tool in companies are presented.

Keywords

decision making; globalisation; logistics; outsourcing; service industries; supply chain management; 3PL providers; China; customer-supplier relationships; globalization; knowledge-based logistics system; logistics performance management; supply chain management; third party logistics; Companies; Customer relationship management; Decision making; Globalization; Inventory management; Knowledge management; Logistics; Measurement; Resource management; Supply chain management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Management and Service Science, 2009. MASS '09. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4638-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4639-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMSS.2009.5302406

Filename

5302406