Informal Investigation of Fourth-Party and Third-Party Logistics Service Providers in Terms of Indian Context: An AHP Approach

This research is based on the investigation of logistics service providers (LSPs) in terms of their activities and role in providing boons to the primary industries and to the customer terminus. This study also reports about the futuristic ambit of “collaboration of outsourced partners, their substructure, manoeuvering to gain manpower, integration of LSPs”. The goal of this paper is to understand the leeway of betterment of Indian industries with the maximum utilization of LSPs, present in the current market. Alliances of LSPs will contribute to maintaining the competence strength of Indian industries in the global market. To achieve the best results and the benefit of above-mentioned points, this research work has found out three major criteria and their sub-criteria with the help of the literature study and with the support of survey amongst the experts and analytical hierarchy process (AHP) technique, and output has been achieved. AHP tool helps in decision-making and validation of priorities between different factors.