Logistics has been an important part of every economy and every business entity. The worldwide trend in globalization has led to many companies outsourcing their logistics function to Third-Party Logistics (3PL) companies, so as to focus on their core competencies. This paper attempts to broadly identify and categorize the challenges faced by 3PL companies and discover potential gaps for future...

Operating reverse logistics in enterprise better or not is directly related to customers’ satisfaction and loyalty. Therefore, many enterprises usually adopt a policy to outsource their reverse logistics in order to strengthen their competence in the market. How to design an incentive mechanism is a key problem in reverse logistics outsourcing management. Through the reputation effects model pu...

The wide utilisation of information communication technology has significantly affected also a development of logistics services concepts. Consequently, research in the area of virtual companies including logistics services is developing. Presented visions are commandingly optimistic, even though sceptics are already gathering counter-arguments against those visions. As an important factor of s...

Purpose – This research aims to determine the current situation of outsourcing logistics activities in Turkey, a country which has a great potential for logistics activities among the surrounding continents because of its geographical location. Design/methodology/approach – Survey analysis was conducted with 250 of the top 500 Turkish firms specified by the Istanbul Chamber of Commerce for the ...

Logistics outsourcing has been at the top of the management agenda during recent decades. The selection of the proper service supplier is the key to success in logistic outsourcing Firms could select the right supplier by applying appropriate methods and selection criteria. In this paper a new framework is proposed on the basis of weighted additive fuzzy programming approach and linear programm...

Logistics outsourcing is a mode of operation for companies in global supply chains that have been increasingly devoting more attention to their core activities. This study examines the state-of-the-art logistics Slovenian manufacturing industry. Additionally, authors benchmark findings against similar from 2013. Finally, this provides discussion logistics-outsourcing specifics some countries wi...

Partnerships, alliances and Efficient Consumer Response (ECR) are concepts that have been prominent in the marketing and logistics literature in the 1990s. One element of relationship building between vendor and purchaser is the outsourcing of activities within the supply chain. Although outsourcing was one of the topics discussed in the major retail trade conferences in the US (National Retail...

Purpose The construction industry shows an increased interest in how to manage logistics within projects. Often is outsourced a service provider (LSP). However, normally approached either as strategic decision or operational issue and rarely tactical concern. purpose of this study explore organize the outsourcing at strategic, levels. Design/methodology/approach This performed single-case corpo...

Shippers are concentrating on the core competency to stay competitive and outsourcing the logistic activities to the third party who is expert in this field. This third party logistics (3PL) is drawing the due attention at government, industrial, academicians and practitioner’s levels. If the logistics cost in India can be brought down from the current level of 13% of GDP to 9% (level in the U....

Rapid advancements in information and communication technology (ICT) in recent years, coupled with the collapse of entry-to-market and other trading barriers, have changed significantly the way organizations operate in terms of business model and operating scale (Ritchie & Brindley, 2002). Globalization, lead-time reduction, customer orientation, and outsourcing are some major changes contribut...