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Because Third Party Logistics cannot meet the customer Enterprise's need to integrate the supply chain, Fourth Party Logistics is attached more and more importance. This paper introduce the concept of Fourth Party logistics, offer a center measure to adopt in the development of Fourth Party Logistics in China basing on the analysis of problems and risks faced in the development of Fourth Party Logistics.
The following topics are dealt with: Web service protocols; automatic verification; QoS; middleware; decision making; e-commerce service; SaaS; context-awareness; object-oriented systems; customer satisfaction;risk analysis; IT service outsourcing; enterprise; multimedia services; p2p; software development outsourcing; and supply chain.
Logistics outsourcing risk is emerging as a key challenge to logistics management in supply chain. The risk analysis is a critical first step in managing logistics outsourcing risk. The main purpose of this paper is to study the risk associated with logistics outsourcing using system dynamics theory. Firstly, we analyze the logistics outsourcing risk from the system thinking perspective. Secondly,...
The movement of materials has always been the main issue in supply chain management, transportation links all the members in the supply chain and fulfill the upmost objective of customer delivery. In order to realize quick response to customers' requirement as well as delivery high-quality product, companies give up the traditional vertical integration structure by means of focusing on their core...
In the process of order fulfillment in build-to-order supply chain (BOSC), one of the most important problems in the corporations is how to improve the cost-effectiveness of BOSC while increase of customer satisfaction is achieved. Meanwhile, the explosion of e-business, especially the Internet-enabled supply chain mode, makes it more cost-effective for manufacturer and customers to interact with...
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