Market Research Report
Fourth Party Logistics Market
in the GCC region
March 2011
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Market Research Report
Table of Content
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Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 3
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GCC Logistics Market............................................................................................................................................... 5
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Market Size & Growth .................................................................................................................................... 5
Sector
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Market Entry ......................................................................................................................................................... 25
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Strategic Positioning ..................................................................................................................................... 25
Risks / Challenges ......................................................................................................................................... 26
Conclusion ............................................................................................................................................................. 28
Appendix 1 – 4PL Definition .......................................................................................................................................... 30
Appendix 2 – Main GCC Logistics Players...................................................................................................................... 36
Appendix 3 – Key GCC Logistics Hubs ........................................................................................................................... 54
Appendix 4: Map of the Arabian Gulf Countries (GCC) ................................................................................................. 55
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Orange Kingdom is a clothing retail store owned by Between, Inc. It is differentiated from its family brands such as Between and Old Marine, as it gives an upscale image compared to the other two brands, and targets young professional population aged mid twenties to mid thirties both men and women. It provides mid-scale work-to-play casual and business apparel, accessories, and shoes through about 500 stores including factory stores in the United States. It is also gaining market share in Asia, South America, and Europe as well. In this marketing proposal, I would like to discuss three service options to retain and acquire customers.
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Knee Scooters of Houston is a home-based, medical mobility device sales and rental company. We provide our customers excellent customer service; including free delivery and pickup for rentals, free delivery for sales, competitive pricing, and ongoing support to customers. We have had tremendous success in our first year of business.
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In this case of Procter and Gamble (P&G) and Wal-Mart’s partnership, the main issue seemed to be caused by a third-part company’s collaboration with Wal-Mart which interfered the healthy partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart, also threatened P&G’s leading position in the diaper market. P&G’s diaper brand – Pampers has been the industrial leader in the relevant segment for years. P&G has been developing a long-established partnership with Wal-Mart based on a just-in-time ordering and delivery system for disposable diapers featured with the electronic-data-interchange system linking Wal-Mart vendors with P&G factories. The result of this collaboration created a win-win situation which let Wal-Mart reduced both
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Following the paradigm shift on the role of logistics management in the recent decades, there has been a wide recognition of this as a very important aspect a business strategy in general. However due to the numerous factors promoting complexity of logistics management companies have adopted the idea of outsourcing their logistic activities to Third Party Logistics (3PL) providers. Hence, 3PLs have taken a critical role towards supply chains of heir customers.
Discuss the strategic decisions that firms in this sector may be facing. What future strategies can firms pursue to try to secure their competitive advantage and long term survival?
The Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry ( FMCG ) is one of the most top industries served by the third party logistics. The FMCG firms utilize the services that are provided by 3PL. The impact of Third Party Logistics on FMCG firms are on customer satisfaction, logistics system performance, the impact of 3PL also reduce the capital investment in facilities, reduction in investment in information technology, reduction in man power cost. The third party logistics also impact on the improvement of specific logistics function parameters, and improvement in inventory turnover rates. The 3PL has a positive and negative impact on FMCG