Research on Fourth Party Reverse Logistics Based on Nonprofit Organization
Reverse logistics has the features of uncertainty on quantity, quality, time and place of returns. It is very difficult to reach economies of scale for any individual company. Four reverse logistics modes are outlined through literature review and WEB search. After analyzing main factors impacting reverse logistics strategy and discussing each mode in details, it is concluded that there is lack of an effective reverse logistics mode. As one of advanced logistics modes, fourth party logistics can consolidate demands and resources of logistics on the bases of the data pool. It is very suitable to consolidate the scattered demands of returns. Therefore it is possible to reach economies of scale and reduce investments on reverse logistics. Based on a case study in a literature, fourth party reverse logistics based on nonprofit organization is proposed. Putting the interest of fourth party logistics outside the logistics interest group can avoid the competition between third party logistics and fourth party logistics and might promote application of fourth party logistics. Three nonprofit organizations which are potential fourth party reverse logistics are yielded. The collaborative relationships among their participators and application fields are submitted. Some conclusions are yielded.
Fourth party logistics third party logistics reverse logistics logistics alliances
Qiong Liu Jingjing Ye
State Key Laboratory of Digital Manufacturing Equipment and Technology Huazhong University of Scienc Department of Industrial Engineering Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan 430074, P.R
国际会议
2007 IEEE International Conference on Automation and Lofistics
山东济南
英文
2007-08-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）