Research On Forth-party Logistics And Its Service Platform

The market demands of logistics in China and modern logistics service have both entered into rapid growth stage, and logistics has become the third source of profit . The globalization of the world economy requires the logistics industry in China to set up a network of logistics resources which is cross-regional, cross-industry and can be realized in industry standards, service standards with international practice. On the development of logistics industry trends, 4PL is the only way to integrate logistics resources and achieve maximum benefit.Current research status about the forth-party logistics is Summaried. With research on the forth-party logistics, the forth-party logistics based on 3PL trade association is proposed with consideration of the Chinese logistics fact in this paper. It integrates and optimizes all the logistics resources of society so as to maximize the global operating efficiency of logistics. Then subsequently it's characteristic, advantages as well as the differentiation and correlation between the third-party and forth-party logistics are analyzed, followed with the operating mode of the forth-party logistics based on 3PL trade association.To count the evaluation and selection problem of the 3PL in the forth-party logistics, based on the current research, the 3PL evaluation index system of the forth-party logistics service platform is built up, and the optimization and selection of 3PL is implemented with AHP.Requirement analysis of the forth-party logistics service system is carred out, and an architecture of the forth-party logistics service system is established. By the application of Web service technology, the integration of forth-party logistics service platform and the isomerous third-party logistics enterprise application system is realized. Then the main business business flow of forth-party logistics service flatform is analysed and it's function model is built.Then, a forth-party logistics service platform is developed, an example is give to illustrate it. At last, a summary of the whole thesis is given and the investigation directions of the projected are pointed out.