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3PL Outsourcing – Challenges and Benefits

Outsourcing and relying on a third-party provider for logistics, or 3PL in short, can be quite a cost-saver, but is not without caveats. While there are significant benefits, there are also a number of challenges: current requirements, future growth, information exchange and security.

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ARTICLES and PAPERS
Finding the right location - minimizing disruption costs
Classical facility location models assume that once optimally located and set up, facilities will op[...]
What goes into resilience?
 Resilience. That seems to be the buzzword these days. It seems to be making its way not only around[...]
BOOKS and BOOK CHAPTERS
Risk Management in Maritime Transportation Networks
This week’s focus are risks in the maritime supply chain, and today's article introduces a new metho[...]
Book review: Cost-Benefit Analysis: Theory and Application
I really enjoyed reading Cost-Benefit Analysis: Theory and Application by Tefvik Nas.  I used this b[...]
REPORTS and WHITEPAPERS
Highway Vulnerability and Criticality Assessment
Transportation vulnerability and resilience have been the focus of this blog for the past two days, [...]
How New Zealand develops resilient organisations
Is New Zealand better prepared for a disaster than other countries? As our infrastructure and organi[...]
from HERE and THERE
D-Day for Norway's Transport Infrastructure
Today, on this ominous date, Friday the 13th, Norway's government is presenting it's development pla[...]
Cost-Benefit Analysis – an essay about valuation problems
This paper introduces vulnerability as an important parameter for decision-support in cost-benefit a[...]