Study On Influence Factors Of Cooperation Relationship Between 3PL And 4PL

In the late 1980s, Third-Party Logistics was prevalent in Europe and other developed countries and quickly spread to China. In this situation, traditionally manufacturing companies outsourced their logistics business and focus on how to build the core competitiveness. However, right until today, the development of Third-Party Logistics industry are slow, exposing many problems such as single logistics business type, serious waste of resource, lack of optimizing capacity. As rapid development of e-commence and information technology, the concept of Fourth-Party Logistics rises. The Fourth-Party Logistics Companies create value through their intellectual resource and ability in integrating information. So they can well complement with Third-Party Logistics Companies, estabilish strategic cooperative partnership and develop customers.At present, more and more Fourth-Party Logistics enterprise has emerged, but cooperation between Third-Party Logistics and Fourth-Party Logistics is not ideal, not achieving the "1+1> 2" effect as expected. The main reasons are:(1) the key factors of cooperation between enterprises are mishandlled;(2) lack of valid criteria to evaluate the cooperation relationship.For the above, I read a lot of literatures, interviewed experts, summed up the key influence factors of partnership between Third-party logistics and Fourth-Party logistics. Then I induct them into three dimensons including behavior, management, environmental as independent variables of the study. At the same time, I also extracted three variables to evaluate cooperation which contain the contribution of relationship, relationship intimacy, enterprise integrated service capabilities. On this basis, I explore the two-dimensional hypothesis evaluation models to study the relationship between proposed factors and cooperative relation. Besides, Third-Party Logistics is disadvantage when cooperating with Fourth Party Logistics, So it often pays more attention to the establishment and protection of the relationship. I will study this problem from Third-Party Logistics Companies'view. In the empirical study, I hand out market survey questionnaires to more than one hundred Third-Party Logistics enterprises. Then I applicated descriptive statistics, factorial analysis, reliability analysis and regression analysis to deal with the data.At the end of the article, I discussed the result of the regression analysis and pointed out the influence degree key factors made to evaluation of cooperation relationship. On the one hand, this study enrichs the theoretical framework of cooperation relationship between Third-Party Logistics and Fourth-Party Logistics. On the other hand, it promotes the establishment and protection of cooperation relationship between Third-Party Logistics and Fourth-Party Logistics.