Hargous Pretel, Bernardo AndrésGuitart Tarrés, Laura2025-01-092025-01-092022-041132-175Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/217343Purpose Third party logistic (TPL) companies contribute to develop more effective and efficient logistic operations. One way to help this development is having a TPL company can be the orchestrator of a collaborative systems and implementations to do the SCM more efficient to the participants. Design/methodology/approach A bibliometric study about the main researches of TPL companies from the las 2 decades is presented, and an exhaustive literature review to understand the possibilities of TPL companies as enablers for collaborative systems among the supply chain players. Findings There is a gap in the literature to have a new research line where the TPL companies can be the protagonist of the next level of sophistication and add value in the future SCM. Originality/value This study reveals a new line for future researches and the opportunity for the TPL companies to gain a major role in the SCM18 p.application/pdfeng(c) Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2022Logística industrialÀlgebres d'operadorsBibliometriaBusiness logisticsOperator algebrasBibliometricsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article7233032025-01-09info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess