the logistics service providers’ role in the supply chain of ethiopia tannery

The objective of this research is to investigate the logistics service providers’ roles to ethiopia tannery supply chain by recognizing how the expected roles are performed. to achieve the expected objective, the author searched several books and articles that are pertinent within the scope of the research topic. both qualitative and explorative data collection methods are used in the research and these involve conducting interviews, and taking information from the logistics companies website concerning the research topic. the conclusion shows that logistics service providers are capable to perform their roles through vertical and horizontal cooperation with other logistics firms. carriers and the freight forwarders now perform more roles than what people think they do, because the desire to remain competitive make them to take up valueadded services. today logistics service providers add values for their customers via their valueadded services in a number of ways such as time and place utility including tracking and tracing the goods to ensure they are delivered.