Along with the rise of e-commerce technology with the core of information technology, e-commerce technology pervade into all aspects of the logistics management, E-commerce not only play the role of logistics management performance for technology innovation, but also as an environment innovation. This indicates that logistics management has entered a new stage—Fourth-Party-Logistics stage.
This paper studies the Fourth-Party-Logistics mode of operation and business processes under the e-commerce environment. Firstly, the article begins with the production and development of Fourth-Party-Logistics. Secondly, the article analysis the actuality of Fourth-Party-Logistics under the e-commerce environment, after that, the concept of Fourth-Party-Logistics was put forward in accordance with the domestic situation. Finally, the paper holds that the development of 4PL will have a promising future.
