In the past decades, logistics has played a more and more important role in determining whether an enterprise can win in the market. In essence, the performance of an enterprise in the market is mainly determined by three factors: product quality, price and product supply. Any one of these factors plays an important role in the competitiveness of enterprises, and these three factors are directly affected by logistics. The world economy will vertically reorganize the division of labor among industries, suppliers, customers, trade and logistics companies, and the emergence of logistics companies that mediate production and sales will be an inevitable trend of logistics development. The third party logistics has brought many benefits and conveniences to all participants in the supply chain, so it has been greatly welcomed and has great market potential, and will surely become the mainstream of the logistics industry in the next century. This article will discuss from the following aspects. First, the basic concept of Logistics The word logistics comes from the English word "logistics", which originally meant military logistics support. After World War II, the concept of logistics was widely used in the economic field. 1962, Drucker in the United States clearly put forward the opportunities and challenges in the logistics field for the first time in the article "The Dark Continent in the Economic Field". According to the definition of logistics by American Logistics Management Association, "Logistics is a process of planning, implementing and controlling the effective flow and storage of raw materials, intermediate stocks, final products and related information from the place of origin to the place of consumption". This definition emphasizes four key components of logistics: logistics, material storage, information flow and management coordination. Because the logistics process is a complex spatial circulation process of material products from suppliers to customers, involving production, circulation, consumption and other fields, the content of modern logistics management has become more and more extensive. Logistics is actually the management of products in the supply chain among supply chain participants, including circulation links (transportation) and non-circulation links (inventory). Through supply chain management, value-added flow management of omni-channel products and information is carried out to obtain maximum operational efficiency and benefit. Second, the third-party logistics and its market status. Third-party logistics is a service provided by middlemen in the logistics channel. Middlemen provide all or part of the logistics services needed by enterprises in a certain period of time in the form of contracts. Third-party logistics providers are companies that manage, control and provide logistics services to external customers. They do not occupy a place in the supply chain, but are only the third party, but serve the supply chain by providing a whole set of logistics activities. The third-party logistics in the modern sense is an industry with a history of about ten to fifteen years. In the United States, the third-party logistics industry is still considered to be in the development period of product life cycle; In Europe, especially in Britain, it is generally believed that the third-party logistics market has reached a certain maturity. At present, the proportion of using third-party logistics services in Europe is about 76%; The United States is about 58%, and the demand is still growing. The research shows that 24% of non-third-party logistics service users in Europe and 33% of non-third-party logistics service users in the United States are actively considering using third-party logistics services; 62% of European third-party logistics service users and 72% of American third-party logistics service users think that they may increase their use of third-party logistics services within three years. Some industry observers estimated the size of the market. The revenue of the third-party logistics industry in the United States increased from 1994 to125 billion in 1996, and it is expected to exceed the $50 billion mark in 2000. The current $25 billion is considered to account for 6% of the relevant market in the United States, which means that there is a market size equivalent to $420 billion. The recent potential logistics market in Europe is estimated to be about $950 billion. It can be seen that the global third-party logistics market has great potential, strong gradualism and high growth rate. This situation makes the third-party logistics industry have a large number of service providers, and most of the third-party logistics service companies are developed from the traditional "quasi-logistics" industries, such as warehousing. Transportation, air and sea transportation. Freight forwarders and logistics departments in enterprises, etc. Their success lies in providing unique services according to the different needs of customers. At present, there are more than 400 third-party logistics providers in the United States. Most of them were not third-party logistics service companies at first, but gradually developed into industries. According to the survey of 5 1 leading third-party logistics service providers, the most common contents of third-party logistics service are as follows: (see table 1) table 1 most common contents of third-party logistics service No. Percentage of service providers (%) 1 Developing logistics strategy/system 97.32 Electronic data interchange capability 9 1.93 Management performance report 89.24 LCL of goods 86.55 Selection of carriers, freight forwarders and customs brokers 86.56 Information management 8 1. 17 Warehouse 8/KLOC. .8 Consulting 78.49 Freight Payment 75.7 10 Freight Negotiation 75.7 As can transport warehousing enterprises with a deep understanding of these services and experience in each individual service. The key is how to combine these single service contents organically to provide the overall scheme of logistics and transportation.