3RD COUNTRY LOGISTICS (CROSS TRADE)
SJA Group offers to its client’s 3PL / 4PL services to manage their various functions in supply chain so that the principal can focus on core competencies and better manage and utilize company assets and resources and optimize inventory and personnel.
- Integrate and Manage Logistics Functions
- Inbound and Outbound Logistics
- In-plant Logistics
- Reverse Logistics.
Third Party Logistics (3PL)
A third-party logistics (3PL) firm is an external supplier that performs all or part of the company’s logistics functions. The definition encompasses providers of services such as transportation, warehousing, distribution and so on.
The use of third party logistics providers has grown dramatically over the last several years and has increasingly become an effective way to reduce costs and spread risks for traditional, vertically integrated firms.
4PL Service Providers
4PLs represent the next stage of development in logistics service providers. Consequently, while the traditional activities of warehousing, inventory management and transportation may be given out to one 3PL, other processes like HRD, security and product development are done by other 3PLs. In effect, the activities done by a set of internal departments are now being carried out by a set of 3PLs. As a result the companies now have to deal with a whole set of 3PLs and each needs to be coordinated with and linked via personnel and IT. The number of transactions and the costs reduced are thus offset to a great extent by the cost and time of transacting with all these 3PLs.
