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The Positive and Negative Impact by Using Third Party Logistics ----from Manufacturing Point of View Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 ABSTRACT 2 1.0 RESEARCH AIM AND FOCUS 3 1.1 DEFINITION OF THE THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS 3 1.2 CURRENT STATUS OF THE THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS 3 1.3 RESEARCH AIM 4 1.4 RESEARCH FOCUS 5 2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW 5 2.1 BACKGROUND AND FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS 5 2.2 KEY FEATURES OF THE THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS 6 2.3 CURRENT STATUS OF THE THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES 8 2.4 THE MOTIVATION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 3RD PARTY LOGISTICS IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES 8 2.5 THE COMPARISON OF THE THIRD PARTY LOGISTICS BETWEEN CHINA AND THE DEVELOPED COUNTRIES 10 2.5.1 Current Status of the development of 3rd party logistics in China 10 2.5.2 Comparison between China and developed countries 10 3.0 METHODOLOGY 12 4.0 EXPECTED OUTCOME 13 5.0 IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OF THE RESEARCH PROGRAM 16 REFERENCE 17 APPENDIX: INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 20 Reference Executive Summary This report is a consultancy report consisted of 8 parts. Part 1 describes the definition and current state of the third party logistics. Part 2 describes the research aim and focus Part 3 introduces the methodology. In this dissertation, we mainly use case study and related theories to do the research. Why to use such method and the advantages and disadvantages are also introduced in this part. Part 4 represents literature review. We mainly focus on the some aspects of the third party logistics, such as origin and background, further development, key nature, the developing state in the advanced countries, and the comparison between China and the advanced countries. Part 5 analyzes the relationship between manufacturing industry and third party logistics. Part 6 illuminates the expected outcome. Part 7 notes down the detailed implementation plan. Part 8 lists the references in details. 1.0 Introduction & Background 1.1 Definition of the Third party Logistics From the word-to-word meaning, the third party logistics company means the professional enterprises relational with goods, besides consigners and consignees. That is to say the third-part logistics is a kind of logistics form who takes on company logistics activities. So the third party logistics can be generalized defined as ex-logistics providers who provide part or the whole logistics services. Such definition makes the third party logistics company containing the providers of transportation, storage, production distribution, and financial affairs. ( Regan, A.C. and R.A. Garrido 2000) 1.2 Current State of the Third party Logistics According to the 2000 statistics, the expenditure of logistics was $3750 billion in the whole world, and the third party logistics market was $207 approximately 5.5% of the whole expenditure. By 2002, the world logistics expenditure increased to $4000 billion, and the third party logistics reaches up to $281 billion, approximately 7% of the whole. From 1996 to 2002, the increase rate of global third party market is 13%. n logistics expert Robert Randall announced in the 2000 American Logistics Report that the cost of American logistics was $920 billion in 1999, accounting for 9.9% of $926 billion GDP, while the percent was 11.4% in 1990, and 15.7% in 1980.( Lieb, R.C. and Peluso, L. 2000a) American third party logistics industry consulting company report tells that American thi