Sources and directions for developing 3PL logistics provider functions in the modern supply chain

Abstract

The main point of the article is that logistics, in order to provide the world economy with its two major functions, service and integration, creates an objective need for changes in its own institutional settings of activity. Based on reports and references, the author of the article has analyzed the forms and scope of activities of logistics operators by seeking answers to a fundamental issue in this context: to what extent entities being part of third-party logistics providers (3PL) affect the economic order of the modern world and what are the forecasts for the role and place of 3PL companies, now known as orchestrator. This future role of the orchestrator is defined at three levels: transaction cost economics (TCE), resource-based theory (RBT), and network theory (NT).