Title: Value-added services for sustainable third-party warehousing

Authors: L.R. Foulds, Yi Luo

Addresses: Department of Management Systems, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 2020, New Zealand. ' Department of Management Systems, University of Waikato, Private Bag 3105, Hamilton 2020, New Zealand

Abstract: To survive in the competition of supply chains, third-party warehousing providers are utilising new value-added services. We aim to fill the gap in the literature on value-added services in warehousing. Four leading third-party logistics companies in New Zealand were investigated. We found that production transformation and reverse logistics are the most commonly offered services. However, there is still room for further utilisation in vendor-managed inventory and cross-docking. Finally, information technologies were found to be widely utilised in third-party warehousing.

Keywords: information technology; New Zealand; third-party warehousing; value-added services; third-party logistics; 3PL; production transformation; reverse logistics; vendor-managed inventory; VMI; cross-docking.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2006.009559

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2006 Vol.2 No.2, pp.194 - 216

Published online: 21 Apr 2006 *

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