| The experience of countries around the world shows that small and mediumsized enterprises(SMEs)play a major role in economic growth.However,the financing difficulties of them are urgently needed to be solved,and receive widespread social attention.The emergence of integrated logistics and financial services(IFLs)of third-party logistics(3PL)firms provides new ideas for solving it.Based on real cases in practice,we analyze the specific solutions of financial services and logistics services provided by 3PLs for SMEs in the supply chain,and analyzes the costs and profits of members from different service contracts.Proceeding from the impact of profits,choices of 3PL and SMEs have been concluded.We construct a two-level supply chain formed of a retailer and a 3PL firm,and considers the operating decisions and profits of members under three types of contracts: the benchmark contract where 3PL only provides logistics services for retailers,the integrated service contract and bargaining contract where 3PL provides IFLs to retailers.First at all,our research places the problem with a new perspective,taking the3 PL as the main body and considering the coordination between its two services.Secondly,we consider two cooperation contracts of 3PL and retailer on traditional logistics service and IFLs to adapt to different fund levels of the retailer.Through decision analysis and profit comparison,this paper concluded the operation decisions of both parties and the choice between the two contracts.Thirdly,we find that 3PL is not always willing to provide IFLs for retailer with limited funds.In this case,we provide another bargaining contract to enable them to always obtain better profits than that of benchmark contract.We study the impact of variable logistics services and financing services of 3PL on the profits of supply chain partners,and obtains some useful managerial insights. |
