Measuring the effectiveness of third party logistics in contemporary Indian industry

The outsourcing of logistics action, to third party logistics service providers, is becoming a common practice in many contemporary Indian industries. The mainstream research in this field is exploratory research and it mainly focuses on better customer service, cost reduction, better profit, and risks to work with the Third Party Logistics (3PL), along with their role in the supply chain management. This paper presents an analysis on Effectiveness of the Third Party Logistics Manager or 3PL in contemporary Indian Industry. In this paper, researchers have discussed the current logistics activities in Indian industries and the usefulness of the ‘Third Party Logistics Managers’ and assessed the current and future trend in this direction.