The Applied Research Of The Fourth Party Logistics In Supply Chain Management Of The Small And Medium Enterprises

In China, the logistics management of SMEs is relatively low, showing logisticsresources and weak dispersion characteristics, this aspect of the market competitiveness ofSMEs had a negative impact, it also led to a serious waste of social logistics resources. Soin China today, how SMEs logistics development is an important issue. In today’seconomic globalization, the competition between the modern enterprise has fundamentallychanged, the competition has been converted to a single supply chain to compete with thecompetition between the many business-related supply chain. In this context, the needs ofSMEs to the continuous improvement of logistics, all kinds of companies want to be ableto provide a complete logistics integrated services. Thus, the fourth party logistics,logistics form a new born. This is also for the development of China’s logistics industry toprovide a new direction.The main contents of this paper include:1.Fourth basic theoretical research. This section analyzes the Fourth connotation andcharacteristics of the operation mechanism Fourth of doing in-depth analysis, describesthe basic concept and its operation mode of operation. Then comparative analysis of thedifferences between Fourth and Third Party Logistics.2.The basic theory of supply chain management. This section sets out the definitionof supply chain and supply chain management and the main content, analyzes thenecessity of SMEs in the implementation of supply chain management. And made theresearch status and problems of SMEs in supply chain management.3.The Fourth Party Logistics benefits to SMEs. The Fourth Party Logistics is suitablefor the development of SMEs, can act as a catalyst to produce supply chain managementfor SMEs a discussion. Issues and to improve the efficiency of logistics operations forSMEs and reduce logistics costs and other aspects of the research4PL supply chainmanagement.