3pl Case Study

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Introduction
The practising of 3pl has a major topic because of the focus that companies have on global expansion Forrest et al (2008:9). Many companies choose their logistics functions to be outsourced, which is obtaining the services of third party logistics companies through the form of contract. Companies practice this in order to have focus on core business. Third party logistics companies are hired to manage a company’s supply chain operations more effectively and efficiently than the company doing it by its self. An example of UK Company operating its logistics through 3PL is jaguar land rover. 3PLs provide different services concerning logistics, there different types logistics companies that are into specific types of activities an …show more content…

Organisations that are having a hard time in their logistics functions because of increasing competition in the market, high customer service expectation set by a company’s cooperate strategies has shaped for the requirement of outsourced logistics service. Organisations decide to use 3pl so that they have a wider access to enter new and existing markets expansions, to assess market prospects for production an services, to reduce supply chain costs and have expertise to exploit new trends in developing technological advances in supply chain in supply chain management, the need to know whether their product has competitive advantage. Bolumole (2001).
With an overview of what 3PL is and their operations and also clients expectation and what expect from their logistics providers. It can related to the need for 3pls to compete with each other, thus forcing 3PLS to operate more effective and efficiently and also providing their customers with extra services in order to maximise their own productivity and coming with innovative ways in technology and strategy to improve customer satisfaction. 3pl have the need to be more efficient in their …show more content…

In addition, secondary data can be examined over a longer period of time. For example, you can look at a company’s lost-time rates over several years to see at trends.In the same Institute study mentioned above, the researchers also examined secondary data. They looked at workers’ compensation lost-time claims and the amount of time workers were receiving wage replacement benefits The type of data researchers choose can depend on many things including the research question, their budget, their skills and available resources In order to be able to choose either to use primary data, secondary data - or

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