Currently, the domestic shipbuilding and marine equipment industry supplies flexible manufacturing goods to local shipyards and a variety of countries.
The logistics target area of shipbuilding and marine equipment firms is a total logistics service from import/customs clearance to storage/inventory, domestic and overseas, and goods shipment to relevant vessels.
Today's corporate logistics environment of shipbuilding and marine equipment manufacturers is particularly affected by the trend of the shipbuilding industry market.
Shipbuilding and marine equipment firms need to seek for stable 3PL logistics service that cam serves various customers, including the shipbuilding industry, and promote brand value by providing such logistics services to customers. However, the industry still remains in the form of 1PL (First Party Logistics) and simple outsourcing logistics.
The logistics characteristics of shipbuilding and marine equipment manufacturers are highly sensitive to the trend of the shipbuilding industry.
Loss expenses and long-term stock-keeping due to warehousing of the manufacturers depend on shipyards' ship production trends.
In some cases, shipbuilding and marine equipment firms had to burden loss expenses, such as costs of goods storage and warehousing costs that incur due to long-term stock-keeping, costs of loading and unloading goods resulting from Shipyards' order cancellation or postponement. Most equipment and materials are made-to-order for a specific vessels, thus cannot be resold to other customers.
With depression of the shipbuilding industry, reformation is required for shipbuilding and marine equipment firms; hence, the firms are seeking a way to make entry to the marine and land industries as part of the shipbuilding industry, where purchase and sales of parts are on the rise with the expansion of outlets, such as shipbuilding/land/ocean.
With the introduction of 3rd Party Logistics of shipbuilding and marine equipment firms, we can secure stable logistics service, and may reduce management risks, such as human resources, distribution vehicles, and production goods. In addition, the system is likely to increase the same and routine quality service provision and logistics cost management efficiency.
3PL is essential for local shipbuilding and marine equipment firms because it will help shipbuilding and marine equipment manufacturers to advance from the limitation of undeveloped logistics.
The system also helps to overcome the mechanization of logistics facilities, automation, and computerization of 1PL (First Party Logistics), prevents infringement of certain companies' excessive interference and intervention of independent and autonomous business management of 2PL (Second Party Logistics) to ensure break from structural backwardness of the logistics industry, thereby strengthening logistics competitiveness through logistics advancement with the opening of the retail market.
A company D is expanding into four types of businesses, such as shipbuilding/ marine/ land (plant)/ parts besides parts production procurement of the existing shipbuilding industry.
Lately, the company is obtaining many orders from land and maritime industries and making changes from 1PL to 3PL with the shipbuilding industry as the center.
Suppose a company D introduces 3PL, logistics costs will be reduced by up to 30% thereby able to introduce independent 3PL logistics systems through logistics system IT development.
Moreover, the business structure of which was concentrated on the shipbuilding industry due to the characteristics of the existing shipbuilding and marine equipment industry will be able to easily expand to shipbuilding/ marine/ land/ part businesses.
The study focused on the introduction of 3rd party logistics of shipbuilding and marine equipment manufacturers based on cases of 3rd Party Export Logistics of a company name D, which proposed an invigoration plan of 3PL for shipbuilding and marine equipment firms.