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A 3PL (third-party logistics) provider offers outsourced logistics services, which encompass anything that involves management of one or more facets of procurement and fulfillment activities. In business, 3PL has a broad meaning that applies to any service contract that involves storing or shipping items. A 3PL service may be a single provider, such as transportation or warehouse storage, or it can be a systemwide bundle of services capable of handling supply chain management.
How third-party logistics work
Here is an example of how 3PL arrangements operate: A book publisher hires writers, editors and graphic designers to produce publications, but it may not want to handle the consumer ordering process or transportation of book shipments. Instead, the book publisher uses a fulfillment center to process its online orders and hires a trucking carrier to haul its freight. The fulfillment center and carrier both act as 3PL providers. It’s possible for a single 3PL provider to fulfill and ship book orders, too.By contracting with a 3PL provider, the book company can use supply and distribution services only when needed, thus controlling costs more effectively while focusing on its core competency of producing books.
The benefits of 3PL
The primary benefit of using a 3PL service to handle logistics, such as packaging, warehousing, fulfillment and distribution, is cost savings — for example, not having to maintain a warehouse or the staff to monitor supply chain operations.
A 3PL service likely offers better performance on efforts such as shipping while also enjoying an easier ability to scale its operations. If the publishing company in the example above suddenly needs to ship more copies of a popular title, a fulfillment center will have an easier time meeting that demand than if the publisher itself had to ship additional copies of the book.