The Evaluation And Selection Research Of The Fourth Party Logistics Suppliers

With the development of global economy, logistics industry as the new industry,which is formed of transforming with the new and high technology and traditional industrial merger, is developing rapidly in the global range. It is known as "the third kind of profit source" outside of reducing the supplies consumption and raising labor productivity. The competition of the enterprises is one supply chain to another supply chain in the future.The fourth party logistics is the suppliers of leading logistics services. It can evaluate, design, program and implement the project of supply chain; correspond the relationship of the third party logistics suppliers, IT suppliers, management consulting suppliers and so on. Therefore, it can achieve the services of quick,high-quality, low-cost and so on. Apparently, the fourth party logistics provides the best supply chain solution for the customer on the basis of solving the enterprise logistics and integrating the whole resource. It has some advantage on the logistics operation, but there are some unbeknown-ventures. So the enterprise must consider the evaluation and selection of the fourth party logistics suppliers, and analyze the fourth party logistics suppliers in the round. On this base, this thesis focuses on putting forward and studying the theories, methods and methodology of evaluation and selection research of the fourth party logistics suppliers, it has an important theory value and practical meaning to serve our economy development.This thesis pays more attention to studying logistics theory. Firstly, it introduces the theory of the fourth party logistics, including the concept of the fourth party logistics, the reasons of engendering and the characteristic and so on. Secondly, it puts forward the analysis of the fourth party logistics suppliers, such as the organization structure of the fourth party logistics companies, the qualification of being a fourth party logistics provider and so on. Thirdly, it designs the evaluation index of the fourth party logistics suppliers, including the particular index of 4PL suppliers, the essential process of selecting the fourth party logistics suppliers. At the same time, it introduces the methods of the suppliers selecting:Analytic Network Process and multi-objective mathematic programming. At the same time integrating the two methods together, the method of Analytic Network Process is used for analyzing the weight of the index and ordering the 4PLS, the method of multi-objective mathematic programming is used for task allocation to the selected 4PLS.