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Critical Thinking

The purpose of this assignment is to identify and apply Logistics and Supply Chain Management concepts/tools to suggest logistics performance priorities. To this purpose, you should review these companies through the secondary available information. Think about how you can apply the concepts/tools that you learned in this course.

Logistics outsourcing has attracted the attention of lots of industrialists in recent years. As firms enlarge their global reach, they often find that they need to reconsider their internal capabilities in managing the global supply chain. (Trent & Roberts, 2009) commented that many cases firms decide to outsource this function in whole or in part to agents or 3PL (third-party logistics) firms.

Using this concept of 3PL you should answer the following questions by taking any Saudi company or any Multinational company.

Question: ( i need a long answer please)

1. What are the 3PL firms?

2. Assess the reasons for using third-party logistics service in Saudi Arabia? Using examples, Explain 3.Reasons why third-party logistics arrangement are not always successful?

The Answer must follow the outline points below:
•   3PL
•   Their Main functions
•   Any local example
•   Reasons with suitable Examples

Answer 1

1. What are the 3PL firms?

3PL firms are a provider of whole logistic and supply chain management service for companies. Such 3PL firms are outsource by their client company and provides both exports and imports service.

Their main function are:

• Procurement resources or raw material and foods (pick up)
• Storage of product. (warehousing)
• Channeling the process.
• Distribution of product at the right place

Example of such companies : D&B Hoovers provides sales leads and sales intelligence data on over 120 million companies like 3LP TRANSPORT and Trucking contacts in JOINVILLE LE PONT, ILE-DE-FRANCE, France and around the world. Our data undergoes extensive quality assurance testing with over 2,000 discrete checks for validity and reliability. We use over 30,0000 different sources, including teams of primary source researchers to update our data over 5 million times per day. So when you get 3LP TRANSPORT insights, financials and competitors from D&B Hoovers, you can trust in their accuracy. To witness the full depth and breadth of our data and for industry leading sales intelligence tools, take D&B Hoovers for a test drive.

2. Assess the reasons for using third-party logistics service in Saudi Arabia? Using examples, Explain

Reason why a firm should outsource third-party logistic service in Saudi Arabia is :

• Easy commutation: A firm can easily commute in with less challenges and documentation. And moreover
• Better customer service: More time taken will lead to increase in price and so dose the dissatisfaction. It is very important to distribute the product at right time and at right place.
• Future plan in Saudi: Saudi Arabia launched its Vision 2030 in April 2016. A key pillar of the Vision is transforming the country into the go-to logistics hub for the region, capable of efficiently linking trade across three continents: Asia, Europe, and Africa.
• Less paper and office work: Their are certain documentation work in logistic service but it will take less paper work as compare to using own logistic service.
• Cheaper: It is mostly correct to say that hiring whole logistic and supply chain management service will be inexpensive then to use once's own logistic service.

3. Reasons why third-party logistics arrangement are not always successful?

• Poor customer service
• High charge or price
• lack of communication
• lack of facilities.
• improper education and information
• Risk management
• Poor planning

These are some of the reason why 3PL firm fails in providing proper service.