Features of 3PL and 4PL activities of operators in the delivery of goods from Central Russia to the Far East as an example of meat transportation
MAGAZINE №2 (73) April 2016
AUTHOR USHAKOV D.V. - Candidate of Economic Sciences, Deputy General Director for Intermodal Transport, LTD «Freight forwarding Alliance East-West», Company Group «Agency Refperevozki»
CATEGORY Transportation Providers of logistics services Logistics services market
ABSTRACT
Owing to the last changes in structure and the directions of import freight traffics of meat products, the market of transportation of meat products in Russia is in process of transformation now. The main problem in this question concerns the search of an optimum form of interaction of organizational structures of regions of cargo creation and cargo consumption today. In the article the comparative assesment of potentials of trading companies marketing activity in the region of meat products sale with the assistance of logistic operators of a 3PL and 4PL format is goven with the usage of the law of the equilibrium supply and demand price. The results of the cariied out analysis have shown that in modern conditions interaction of the trading companies in the market of meat products with logistic operators of a format 4PL is an optimum form of coordination of market activity.
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