激流涌动的第三方物流（Surging third party logistics）.docVIP

激流涌动的第三方物流（Surging third party logistics） We live in an era of supply chain management and industry mergers and acquisitions. In the past three years, we have witnessed a number of large-scale mergers and acquisitions, Deutsche, Post, AEI and Danzas, UPS and Fritz, Kuehne and Nagel-USCO, and Exel and Mark VII. With the third party logistics market changing, who will benefit from it? How will the customers of the third party logistics deal with it? This article answers these questions one by one. Inertial thinking that these large mergers and acquisitions from 1999 to 2001 will become history, similar situation will no longer exist. But this situation is only relative. In the early wave of large-scale mergers and acquisitions in the logistics industry, only a small number of third party logistics enterprises could reap huge profits from these large acquisitions. As shippers focus more on their vendor position, the development of new technologies allows large third party logistics companies to better serve the industrys push for the mid market, mergers and acquisitions. A small number of big winners will emerge to integrate the third party logistics market. These changes also have a certain impact on the selection and use of the third party logistics services. Smart shippers usually look at third party logistics companies as their business partners, integrate them into their business and let them do the key part of the supply chain operation. Given sufficient trust, shippers understand how the third party logistics has become particularly important in a rapidly changing market. The logistics industry is in a period of change As the twentieth Century 80s restrictions on the transport industry lifted, the modern logistics service providers continue to emerge, while shippers in twentieth Century 90s began to focus on the core competitiveness of enterprises. As a result of these developments, service outsourcing began to take off. In the last ten years, third party logist