Title: Study on producer logistics service and its outsourcing from manufacturing firms: a perspective of industrial cluster

Authors: Wei Liu, Aiping Cui

Addresses: Transportation School, Shanghai Maritime University, No. 1550, Pudong Avenue, Shanghai 200135, P.R. China. ' Shanghai Maritime University, 1290#, No. 1550, Pudong Avenue, Shanghai, P.R. China

Abstract: Today|s business success to a great extent depends on logistics and supply chain performance. More and more companies, especially manufacturing firms, obtain their competitive advantages through creating successful logistics outsourcing alliances to optimise value and performance. This paper puts forward a conception of producer logistics service, analyses its positive effect on manufacturing firms from the perspective of the function of producer services in industrial clusters whose core firm is manufacturing firms, furthermore, discusses logistics outsourcing between manufacturing firm as a logistics outsourcing party and third party logistics (TPL) enterprise as a logistics service provider through building cooperative game models and, finally, proposes further research in the field of logistics outsourcing.

Keywords: cooperative games; industrial clusters; logistics outsourcing; producer logistics services; manufacturing; third party logistics; 3PL; logistics service providers; modelling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLEG.2009.026415

International Journal of Logistics Economics and Globalisation, 2009 Vol.2 No.1, pp.67 - 76

Received: 16 Jul 2008
Accepted: 18 Mar 2009

Published online: 10 Jun 2009 *

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