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| Organizing national and international transport of full or part loads of packaged industrial goods, logistics provider, storage, order picking, distribution. |
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Working methods
By rethinking the general organization of your transport services, you will improve your company's environmental performance.
We commit our own operations, but also involve our principals, our subcontractors, as well as all other stakeholders in logistics.
Using special tools - among the 4 key directions in the Carrier's Charter on C02 reduction,
the organisation of flows offers the most potential gains.
What is 4PL?
A definition
The consultants Arthur Andersen (now Accenture) proposed the following definition in 1996: "4PL is an integrator that assembles its own resources, capacities and technologies with those of other service providers to design and lead complex Supply Chains".
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| A 4PL supplier is a supply chain integrator that assembles and manages resources, capacities and technologies - both those of its own company and those of complementary service providers. |
Origin
As a result of the globalization of markets and the growth of international routes, logistics chains have become more and more complex. The many stakeholders involved in these chains lead to problems managing coordination and liability. 4PL service providers - Fourth Party Logistics Providers, are those who carry out the coordination between loading firms (1PL), the end customer (2PL) and the logistics provider (3PL). 4PL is a direct consequence of these changes. This type of service allows loading agents, manufacturers or distributors to benefit from a comprehensive and integrated service for flows of goods and information. A comprehensive service is therefore organized by a single contact. 4PL providers can be either 3PL providers diversifying their operations, management consultants, supply chain specialists, or IT service and engineering firms.
Definitions
Logistics providers and client companies can also be organized in a arbitrary way according to their rate of outsourcing or third-party management of logistics.
- "1PL" (First-party logistics) : outsourcing of transport
- "2PL" (Second-party logistics): outsourcing of transport and warehousing.
- "3PL" (Third-party logistics): traditional outsourcing, which consists of entrusting logistics operations to a specialist and implementing the tools, skills and systems required with the aim of improving the performance (carrying out more and more varied tasks).
- "4PL" (Fourth-party logistics): a further enhanced outsourcing procedure - the service provider no longer deals with the distribution of a product in a given region, but optimizes a chain including their client, the client's customers and suppliers.
Features of 4PL
The emergence of a service which encompasses functions of a technical, commercial, financial, organisational and administrative nature. 4PL providers are companies which in most cases do not have fixed capital or information systems. These firms do not have manufacturing facilities, warehouses or lorries, and implement their logistics skills in order to optimize flows and call upon the best service providers at the best price. Their role is to mobilize and coordinate heterogeneous stakeholders and manage information systems, transport, warehousing, handling, distribution and risks to meet their clients' requirements.
4 PL involves new forms of cooperation and contracts binding loading agents, 3PL providers and clients with an obligation of results (particularly in terms of cost reduction, innovation and organisation). 4PL can play the role of a consultant allowing the logisics chain to be optimized, but also a contracting authority which organizes the implementation of operational and strategic recommendations.
Benefits
- A single contact and comprehensive, fully integrated management of the flows of goods.
- Expertise in the profession and technology monitoring, allowing many aspects to be optimized.
- Overall responsibility with regard to clients through an extensive network of global dimensions.
- Cost reductions: 4PL providers are often remunerated by means of a percentage of the gains achieved.
MARSY Transport et Logistique, organizing national and international transport, road haulage, multi-modal transport, logistics provider
