With physical distribution/logistics industry terminology, of carrying the baggage simply and it is not to receive only the work to owe, receiving and ordering/picking/various jobs such as optimum stock car allocation delivery and being extensive management is included and lumping together comprehensive logistics business, it is the trader who does business, or that it is entrusted.
The Ministry of International Trade and Industry Ministry of Transport Ministry of Construction & Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries National Police Agency decided in 1997 ' physical distribution measure general principles ' with, "vis-a-vis the shipper to propose physical distribution reformation, including, it is entrusted physical distribution business new service" it is defined.
When you see from shipper enterprise, lumping together in the 3PL trader, the logistics business which is not itself main business, as a strategic partner outside it entrusts,it is the business processout-sorcing.The increaseof the shipper enterprise which reaches the point where advancement of the physical distribution is desired by the development and the like of SCM points "selection and centralization", and they are the business conditions which appear the flexible regulation etc. in physical distribution industry with.
Roughly classifying, there are two types in the 3PL trader. The physical distribution trader who if possesses the track/truck and the warehouse etc. develops one in "asset type", possession property needs of shipper enterprise to coincide, can make availability high, it is possible to offer the service which is stabilized cheaply. Also the physical distribution subsidiary company and the like of the sheared service type which collectedphysical distribution sectionto one at the group company and the like probably will enter into this type.
Already, as for one, at the respective company optimum logistics business is offered with the ? car and utilization transport etc. with physical distribution property in "non asset type", the general trading firm and the example where information service and consulting enterprise etc. enter can see. For example, concluding the contract and the like which the shipper divides into halves reduction amount, physical distribution cost reduction it does proposition execution, long-term contract there is a form and the like that you take charge of the SCM strategy extensively in the base.
Origin of word is the United States, but as for origin of a word of the "third party" there are 2 theories. As for first the manufacturer (the seller) the first party, the agent wholesaler retail industry (the buyer) as a second party, the theory which we assume that in the circumstance where either one has taken charge of the physical distribution, it means that the third party executes the physical distribution extensively. Second shipper such as manufacturer agent wholesaler retail industry the logistics business which the third party who is not the whichever the first party, the physical distribution trader who takes charge of actual storage transport as a second party, does (bundling the warehouse, Land Transport Bureau, marine transport and empty luck, it is the theory) with in the sense that you say, e.g., it lumps together offers.
In any case when does various physical distribution improvement propositions in the shipper, you can call 3PL, that simultaneously, optimum physical distribution service (control) it is the enterprise which is offered with high-level information technology. |
