Unlike 3PL or 4PL cold-chain arrangements, which aggregate individual service providers or discrete route segments, a 5PL operator – Fifth Party Logistics – assumes unified governance of the entire temperature-controlled supply chain as a single integrated system.
Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/fifth-party-logistics
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