With the existing logistical networks, traders can easily coordinate with shipping lines and logistics service providers to arrange shipments at competitive prices.
"They're no more than a high-end logistics service," says the head of investor relations at one large company.
Others, like Bill Owens, would create new services based on function -- an intelligence service, a logistics service, an attack service and so on.
This paper discusses a logistics service integrator (LSI) orders logistics service capacity from a functional logistics service provider (FLSP) before the selling season with two opportunities.
Furthermore, this method is extended to a three-echelon logistics service supply chain composed of a logistics service integrator, a functional logistics service provider, and a logistics subcontractor.
The paper companies own logistics service providers such as stevedores.
However, they are costly to logistics service providers (LSPs).
This paper investigates the fairest revenue-sharing coefficient when the logistics service integrator and the functional logistics service provider implement revenue-sharing contract under stochastic demand condition; by focusing on a two-echelon logistics service supply chain composed of a logistics service integrator and a functional logistics service provider.
Taken into consideration the non-storage property of logistics service supply chain, this paper establishes a Stackelberg game model by giving priority to the logistics service integrator.
Competition between logistics service providers (LSPs) manifests competitive edge in these value added service offerings.
A large number of freight logistics service providers and users are SMEs.
