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The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain: How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies
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The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain: How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies

by Robert Palevich
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
9h 46m
English
Pearson
Content preview from The Lean Sustainable Supply Chain: How to Create a Green Infrastructure with Lean Technologies

7. Third-Party Provider

This is a case study of outsourcing logistics software to a company that can perform transportation scheduling and carrier selection more effectively and at a lower cost. Many companies choose third-party logistics (3PL) because they have more expertise and do more business with the carriers. This allows the 3PL to give a better freight rate. The 3PL also has longer standing relationships with the carriers, and this is important when a company needs to expedite merchandise or change existing routing.

So what are the advantages and technologies that a 3PL can offer that will improve the Transportation Management System (TMS)? There are incremental savings because of the 3PL’s economy of scale. For a firm to successfully ...

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