Communication by Internet, Economic globalization, Product's customization, Rapid change of market, severe competition and so on, is the character of age and social competing environment which 21st's manufacturing enterprise live in. In addition to Time, Quality, Cost, Service and Environment, the ability of quickly response to market's need (i.e. Agile) and rapidly reorganizing to make virtual enterprise (i.e. Flexible) are also the object of modern manufacturing system. Logistics is"the third resource of profit of enterprise", and good logistics service can optimize index of manufacturing system, such as Cost, Time, Agile and Flexible and so on. So logistics has gradually become one of the main strategic decision problem of modern manufacturing enterprise.Self-operation and outsourcing are the main logistics model of manufacturing enterprise. For big manufacturing company, they can choose self-operation model as their logistics system model. However, Small and Middle manufacturing enterprise shouldn't and can't construct whole logistics management system, in other word, the Small and Middle manufacturing enterprise should adopt outsourcing mode of logistics, such as third party logistics (i.e. TPL), as their logistics system mode. In this way, they can get the object of good cost and service. In the other hand, there...
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