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The Comparison between the Third Party Logistics and the Fourth Party Logistics

Wei Kong

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Third party logistics reduces the logistics cost and raises logistics efficiency, it has already been recognized by numerous enterprises. But, third party logistics lacks operation speciality and merger technical ability supplied by the chain, fourth party logistics is the effective way to solve the limitation, whose evolution and development bases on third party logistics and is wide to contain the surface more than third party logistics, whose skill is more complicated. The supply chain offered by fourth party logistics has much systematization and integrality.

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Third party logistics reduces the logistics cost and raises logistics efficiency, it has already been recognized by numerous enterprises. But, third party logistics lacks operation speciality and merger technical ability supplied by the chain, fourth party logistics is the effective way to solve the limitation, whose evolution and development bases on third party logistics and is wide to contain the surface more than third party logistics, whose skill is more complicated. The supply chain offered by fourth party logistics has much systematization and integrality.

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Third party logistics reduces the logistics cost and raises logistics efficiency, it has already been recognized by numerous enterprises. But, third party logistics lacks operation speciality and merger technical ability supplied by the chain, fourth party logistics is the effective way to solve the limitation, whose evolution and development bases on third party logistics and is wide to contain the surface more than third party logistics, whose skill is more complicated. The supply chain offered by fourth party logistics has much systematization and integrality.

Key concepts: Third party, Business, Supply chain, Integrated logistics support, Humanitarian Logistics, Industrial organization, Operations management, Computer science

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