Objectives
On completion of this course you should be able to:
- Understand the importance of logistics relationships and the types of relationships that may be formed.
- Be knowledgeable of a process model that will facilitate the development and implementation of successful supply chain relationships.
- Define what is meant by third-party logistics (3PL), and know what types of firms provide 3PL services.
- Know what types of 3PL services are used by client/customer firms, and know what types of 3PL providers are used.
- Appreciate the role and relevance of information technology-based services to 3PLs and their client/customers.
- Realize the ways in which 3PLs are involved in global supply chain issues.
- Know the extent to which customers are satisfied with 3PL services, and understand where improvement may be needed.
- Recognize the importance of “collaborative” relationships in the context of supply chain management.
Course Outline
Outsourcing Contracts: Outsourcing of Logistics Services
- Outsourcing contracts
- The definition, history and development of outsourcing
- The legal nature of outsourcing contracts
- Logistics contracts
- The definition and development of logistics
- The legal nature of logistics contracts
- Third-party logistics outsourcing
- Developments and future perspectives
- The legal framework of logistics contracts
- General requirements for developing the activity
Contract to Provide Logistics Services: a General Overview
- Preliminary acts to concluding the contract: the letter of intent
- General premises of the contract to provide logistic services
- Content of the contract to provide logistics services
- Scope of the contract
- The logistics platform
- Exclusivity
- Obligations of the 3PL provider: the services undertaken
- Obligations of the customer: paying the price
- Liability
- Force majeure
- Insurance
- Confidentiality
- Inspection and monitoring
- Ownership of the merchandise
- Assignment and subcontracting
- Personnel
- Duration and termination
- Data protection and intellectual property
- Dispute resolution and governing law
- Rights of relevant transactions
Contract to Provide Logistics Services: Carriage of Goods
- Carriage of goods by road
- Introduction: definition and legal regime
- Scope of application
- Contractual documentation
- Liability of the transport company
- Claims and actions
- Carriage of goods by sea
- Legal regulations
- Determination of the applicable law: scope of application
- Scope of application
- International competence
- Personal and material elements of the contract
- Obligations of the parties
- Carrier’s liability regime
- Carriage of goods by rail
- Object and scope of the Convention
- The contract of transport
- Liability and actions
- Exercising of the rights
- Relations between railways
- Carriage of goods by air
- Multimodal transport
- Definition and legal regime
- United Nations Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods 1980
- UNCTAD/ICC Rules for multimodal transport documents
Contract to Provide Logistics Services: Warehousing and Resources
- Warehousing
- Obligations of the warehouse owner
- Liabilities
- Personnel
- Legal framework
- Outsourcing and TUPE: the Süzen case
- Temporary employment agencies
- Insurance
- Insurance classes and applicable legislation
- The concept and legal nature of the insurance contract
- Elements of insurance contracts
- Content of the contract
- Insurance for damage
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