Logistics refers to the management of the flow of goods and supplies involving information, data and documentation between two entities or points. In any logistic contract or supply chain network, you will not find one single service provider being able to manage the entire chain of activities. You can have a lead logistics service provider who will further tie up with and manage other service providers to provide a single window service to the client organization. At all levels, a lot of components of logistics get outsourced by these service providers to contractors and local players. A good example will be online purchase from e-commerce websites… the platform business will tender the delivery contract to a local main contractor (eg Singpost), whom the latter will out-source to smaller delivery companies like ninja van/ roadbull/ Gogovan for in-country deliveries.

The degree of logistic management depends greatly on the geographical coverage the logistic service provider is operating in. For global operations, it involves the drawing up the operating plans, requirements, and specifications for the services and, in turn, choose the best service provider in each segment or function for each of the locations and thus manage to provide the entire gamut of logistics services to the customer. 

Global operations will typically involve freight forwarders, whom are those agencies who consolidate the cargo shipment, arrange for onward freight using either land, air or sea transportation modes. The cargo is then passed on to local delivery companies, transporting the cargo via inland-transit to the point of designation. 

Due to the massive explosive e-commerce market in recent years, we have witnessed the emergence of new entrant logistics companies serving in the Singapore market.

• Gogovan

• Ninja Van

• Fast Fast 

• Roadbull

• Network Courier

• Uparcel

• Easyparcel

• Xdel