How should enterprises choose, manage and evaluate third-party logistics?

?Logistics outsourcing to enterprise assets lighter, lower inventory, more professional operation, the total cost reduction, but also for its operations to bring some risks.

April 2013, Shanghai, a company (US) imported equipment from Germany, because the equipment is ultra-high, take the open-top container transport. The goods arrived in Shanghai, the company shipping arrangements for third-party trailers to the terminal after the terminal towing counter. In the multi-price comparison, the final selecion of a lower offer a trailer company. The driver in order to save high-speed tolls in the process of transport, the choice of urban traffic at night, the results due to high equipment stuck in the urban viaduct high limit sections, the driver abandoned the car and fled the traffic police department to find the business, Compensation, maintenance and other German experts spend more than 150 million. To be held trailer company responsibility and found the car is scrapped cars, license plates are deck.

Therefore, in the non-core logistics business outsourcing, should be building a "third-party logistics" (3PL, THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS choice, control, evaluation management system.

Third-party logistics, ie contract logistics, refers to the services provided by brokers in the logistics channel. Services include brokers in the form of a contract within a certain period of time, to provide enterprises with all or part of the logistics services.
In advance, how to choose?

3PL late cooperation is smooth, pre-selection is very important. As a cargo shipper, to find the right carrier, we must first clear their needs. What kind of logistics services do you need? What are the key functions required? What is the desired goal? For example, the "big goods" or long life cycle product cost priority, less batch of innovative product speed is the key. Enterprises need to meet the needs of the design to meet their own 3PL selection criteria.

This step has a misunderstanding is that the choice when companies tend to pick the largest, the brand's best suppliers, which in fact committed a one-way look at the problem of error. Enterprises also need to analyze from the perspective of suppliers - if the enterprise volume is small, excellent 3PL can only be classified as C customers, resources, natural tilt to high-quality customers.

Understanding the supplier's customer evaluation criteria is very important, only the high value of the overlapping point of demand is the best partner. Therefore, the choice is far more important than the late efforts.

First, cost control requires skill.

At present, the market most companies are using shop around, the lowest price in the way of choice of suppliers. This is likely to cause vicious competition in the market, the level of service providers can not be protected, an increase of operational risk.

Such as a friend of the business strategy of the electricity business, the cost of delivery of the parcel did not use their own delivery volume and suppliers to bargain, but with the courier company to explore how to jointly create space to reduce the two sides to extend the cooperation Electric business packaging production line, in the electricity business warehouse on the regional classification, transport to the courier company, direct loading shipment. By pre-set package, optimizing the process, a package can save costs 3 yuan. Other strategies include the integration of transport demand for various goods and the optimization of transportation routes, and carry out the mixing of vehicles without affecting the quality of transportation, so as to achieve the purpose of integration and achieve economies of scale.
Secondly, security is a top priority.

Security, high-value materials for the need to pay more attention. Shenzhen, a jewelry company bosses say, in the goods issued until the customer sign process center are hanging. If the product is frozen, the shipper is also concerned about the transport process temperature is appropriate.

To successfully solve this problem, through the logistics monitoring tool for logistics throughout the visualization is the most advanced approach. The use of mobile Internet, GPS, GIS, RFID, temperature sensors and other technologies, so that the whole logistics transparent, in a state can be monitored. Enterprises can be 3PL whether to have such a management hardware as the preferred standard.

Finally, control the stability of 3PL services.

When the car did not want to call the car, promised the car can not be loaded to the designated location on time, many companies are looking for spare tire, A home no car to find B, B home no car to find C home, the problem is in the season Time, such as statutory holidays around the end of the month or may occur A, B, C are not the case of vehicles. Visible spare tire is not good policy, circumvention and prevention is king.

In addition to pre-contract constraints, parking location requirements, it is important to have a shared vehicle demand plan, companies can make the transport sector to develop the next 3 days car plan to do the planning. Such as the United States HA company will provide the main partners for the next week rolling vehicle resources plan, in the day before 12:00 to determine the specific car plan the next day, if there is adjustment, only on the basis of fine-tuning the main plan, the impact will not Too much. In the case of planned delays, a direct impact on key performance indicators KPI, directly related to the 3PL revenue.

Early assessment of the capacity of the latter assessment of the performance. The purpose of the assessment is to not cooperate with the 3PL, assessment is to decide whether to continue and the 3PL cooperation. At the same time, assessment of suppliers is also an effective means of upgrading management, to find the gap, continuous improvement. 3PL how to comment, how to set the standard, the two sides need to reach a consensus formation standards, written into the contract. evaluation criteria on the one hand to be specific and executable, on the other hand to ensure that the supplier operator to understand, easy to operate.