Discusses the rise of third party logistics.

The rise of third party logistics in the modern sense was aesthetically pleasing in the late 1980s. The impetus for the development of third-party logistics comes mainly from the supply and demand of third-party logistics services.

(1) the emergence of corporate outsourcing needs. The formation of the buyer's market, fierce competition, the original model of high cost, low efficiency disadvantages;

The emergence of a new trend: enterprises began to focus on expanding their core business, in order to make production and consumption seamless, as soon as possible to realize the value of the goods, the introduction of modern logistics management concepts, to provide multi-functional, high-quality logistics services as a new type of competitive strategy.

Modern logistics management of the systematic requirements of high; economies of scale is obvious; technical; most of the owners of the enterprise does not have the ability to self-management of modern logistics; third-party logistics enterprises/professional logistics providers, specialization, high efficiency, scale of business to create profits (such as the public **** warehouse, professional transport companies); the use of third-party logistics companies have achieved results (the United States, the University of Tennessee). A study).

(2) the emergence of integrated service delivery province. Transportation deregulation, the scope of specialized services expanded, but has been able to outsource multi-functional outsourcing shift. Integrated service providers (ISPs) began to provide a range of services, integrated service providers? Third-party logistics service providers. Third-party logistics providers are divided into asset-based and non-asset-based.