A Study of Outsourcing and Self-Run Business Decision-Making in the Distribution Transportation of International Logistics

In the distribution of international logistics, the choice of the ways of transportation is one of the key factors to reduce the costs of distribution. In view of the countermeasures for the outsourcing and self-run business of the distribution transportation, the author of present paper aims at establishing analytical models, providing solutions which are confirmed by a case study from the investigation conducted in the United States of America, solving the high-cost question that plagues the network of international distribution over a long time, and providing a kind of decision-making tools for Chinese products to squeeze into the international market and establish the distribution networks. (C) 2011 Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of International Materials Science Society.