Applying collaborative transportation management models in global third-party logistics
| Autor: | Jonah C. Tyan, Timon C. Du, Fu-Kwun Wang |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Předmět: |
Process management
Total cost Mechanical Engineering Supply chain Reliability (computer networking) Aerospace Engineering Competitive advantage Computer Science Applications Globalization Multinational corporation Order (exchange) Operations management Business Electrical and Electronic Engineering Market share |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing. 16:283-291 |
| ISSN: | 1362-3052 0951-192X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0951192031000089183 |
| Popis: | With the trends of e-commerce and globalization occurring in the economy, an effective global supply chain (GSC) management has become a business necessity for a multinational corporation seeking to secure market share. Although there has been much discussion on how a company gains competitive advantages through GSC management, the physical distribution of order fulfilment is less discussed in the literature. Global third-party logistics (3PL) has developed into an alternative for the needs of global distribution. In this paper, the authors present a new application of collaboration in GSC execution, namely collaborative transportation management (CTM), which can be used to reduce delivery time and improve delivery reliability. A case study is illustrated: The application of CTM by a 3PL provider in a notebook computer GSC. The implementation results show that the delivery cycle time and the total cost are simultaneously reduced. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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