Abstract
The selected topic of the analysis is relevant, since the restoration of the chains disturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic is possible on the basis of digitalization and consolidation of the logistics services market, increasing the innovative mobility of its entities. That is why the purpose of our paper we have chosen to make the analysis of the prospects and problems of the logistics provider development as a special subject of the logistics services market in the terms of contemporary challenges. In the course of working on the paper, the methodology of systems analysis, analysis methods, synthesis and comparative analysis were used. As a result of a comparative analysis of the main 3PL and 4PL providers, the competitive strategic advantages of the latter were revealed. In this regard, the authors have developed a hypothesis: as the time lag of uncertainty increases, the demand for 4PL provider services will grow. The paper considers the structure of the modern competitive environment, in which, according to the authors, the point of growing the domestic 4PL providers and increasing their innovative mobility will be the 3PL providers partnership with startups and their acquisition of new players in specific process areas. At the end of the paper, some barriers are specified that may prevent the implementation of the strategic partnership between the entities of the logistics services market. Conclusions: Formation of the 4PL providers institution is an advance tool for increasing the logistics industry resistance to stress. The scope of the analysis results can be advisory for logisticians, logistics intermediaries and public authorities.
Highlights
Factors such as globalization and internationalization, increasing competition and orientation to the end user, as well as the development of information and communication technologies and e-commerce have acted as the main drivers of quantitative and qualitative changes in the logistics services market [1,2,3]
As a theoretical basis for the study, the authors used the concept of Supply Chain Management” (SCM) and logistics outsourcing, in which the activities of logistics providers act as a necessary component of the entire theory and practice of logistics
With regard to a systematic approach, the logistics services market can be viewed as an open socio-economic system, which is affected by constant changes in the external environment
Summary
Factors such as globalization and internationalization, increasing competition and orientation to the end user, as well as the development of information and communication technologies and e-commerce have acted as the main drivers of quantitative and qualitative changes in the logistics services market [1,2,3]. With regard to market demand, there is a tendency to gradual integration of logistics intermediaries into the activities of national and international logistics business based on outsourcing technologies, strengthening of cooperation between different stages of value chains in different regions [6,7,8]. The modern range of storage-retrieval tasks is increasingly added by managerial and strategic tasks, a stable trend of cooperation between intermediate links (sub-providers) and the development of system logistics providers is being formed. This will entail the development of a qualitatively new subject-object interaction in the market of logistics services based on the use of information and intelligent technologies. More and more preference will be given to the activities of system logistics providers that have an established digital infrastructure and create conditions for effective interaction between market entities [9,10,11]
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