Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify global trends in the third-party logistics (3PL) industry, and with that to find out where the opportunities and challenges lie, what the critical success factors are, and how companies can position themselves well in China. As there is...

With the rapid development of e-commerce, enterprises need to improve their distribution networks to accommodate the increasing requirements regarding the quality of customer service and the rising costs of the logistics. We investigate a distribution network design problem involving various...