The Construction Plan of the Fourth Party Logistics Platform of Chongqing Cross-Border E-Commerce

摘要

The cross-border E-commerce in Chongqing has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, with the development of the cross-border E-commerce, the logistics becomes an important factor that restrains its rapid development. Therefore, this paper proposes to build a fourth party logistics (hereinafter referred to as "4PL") platform so as to promote the sustainable and health development of Chongqing cross-border E-commerce. Firstly, the paper makes a brief introduction to the 4PL and the 4PL platform and also analyzes the positive effects of the 4PL platform on the development of the cross-border E-commerce by referring to the status quo of Chongqing cross-border E-commerce. Then, the paper puts forward a safe, open, expansible and highly available construction plan about the 4PL platform by making a comprehensive explanation about the platform framework design. Finally, the paper holds that once being implemented, this construction plan will put the companies with mutual needs into a network so as to reduce the logistics cost effectively, increase the efficiency of the logistics operation, promote the transformation and upgrading of Chongqing logistics industry, provide guarantee for the fusion and development of the cross-border E-commerce, and finally promote the development of the social economy.