Open AccessRESEARCH ON PUBLIC LOGISTICS CENTRE AS TOOL FOR COOPERATION
Author(s) -
Andrius Jaržemskis
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
transport
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1648-4142
pISSN - 1648-3480
DOI - 10.3846/16484142.2007.9638096
Subject(s) - business , legislation , supply chain , economies of scale , supply chain management , quality (philosophy) , process management , marketing , operations management , industrial organization , transport engineering , environmental economics , engineering , economics , philosophy , epistemology , political science , law
This paper focuses on logistics centre concept and benefits for users. Intermodal benefit, forwarders impact, IT solutions, new transport flows due to synergy, better supply chain management, additional services, cost sharing, economies of scale, quality of the services, know‐how, joint marketing impact, and benefit for growth of third‐party logistics services are presented. The main bottlenecks such as duration of planning logistics centres process, pressure to land use for other purposes and problems caused by legislation are described. Results of pilot study of benefits from business cooperation are presented and concluded as well.