By increasing the international logistics industry in the world, the basic concepts of fourth party logistics(4PL) is induced based on the third party logistics(3PL) to save the logistics cost which involved the transportation, operation, inventory and so on. By following global trend on 4PL for growing a domestic logistics company, it would be developed by considering the international preview of 4PL and setup its strategy.
In this study, the development plan for global logistics company in Korea is suggested by the activation of the 4PL. First, the 4PL is defined and its characteristics is shown. Second, by analysing the case studies of 4PL for international company and domestic company, a 4PL preview is induced and its development trend is obtained.
Last, as a main results of this study, the global growth strategy plans are described by two cases: logistics company and manufacturing company. For achieving the strategy plan, global growth policy is suggested by the construction of global network and the promotion of global standardized.