LOGISTICS OUTSOURCING AS A METHOD OF ENHANCING OPERATING EFFICIENCY OF A SUPPLY CHAIN
Outsourcing certain tasks to external bidders releases funds for developing areas vital for company's business.
The outsourced tasks do not belong to core competencies, i.e. skills and functions being basic sources of the
competitive edge. Maintaining own logistics potential results in the fact that a company generates fixed costs regardless of the current market demand or seasonal trends.
Outsourcing means flexibility in shaping a logistics system used to implement supply and distribution processes, i.e. using only such a number of employees and vehicles as well as an amount of storage space that is required during a given period.
Thus it results in transforming fixed costs into variable costs. Depending on operations and their complexity, different savings resulting from outsourcing may be obtained.
While taking a decision regarding cooperation with an external logistics services operator, one must decide which costs are
connected with such services but also how they can influence customer service and what services they may ensure.
Numerous studies show that a method employed for logistics activities has much more extensive impact on company's results than its logistics costs [Goebl, Froschmayer 2011].
Logistics operators (supply chain integrators) play the role in integration of all links of a supply chain as they are more and
more frequently present in the whole chain as one of its key elements. Thanks to effective connection networks, the provide supplied both on the local and global level. Apart from effective movement of goods, an information
flow in a supply chain is also very important. Employing homogenous information exchange systems contributes to improving efficiency and allows for implementing increasingly more advanced solutions.
LOGISTICS OUTSOURCING AS A METHOD OF ENHANCING OPERATING EFFICIENCY OF A SUPPLY CHAIN
Outsourcing certain tasks to external bidders releases funds for developing areas vital for company's business.
The outsourced tasks do not belong to core competencies, i.e. skills and functions being basic sources of the
competitive edge. Maintaining own logistics potential results in the fact that a company generates fixed costs regardless of the current market demand or seasonal trends.
Outsourcing means flexibility in shaping a logistics system used to implement supply and distribution processes, i.e. using only such a number of employees and vehicles as well as an amount of storage space that is required during a given period.
Thus it results in transforming fixed costs into variable costs. Depending on operations and their complexity, different savings resulting from outsourcing may be obtained.
While taking a decision regarding cooperation with an external logistics services operator, one must decide which costs are
connected with such services but also how they can influence customer service and what services they may ensure.
Numerous studies show that a method employed for logistics activities has much more extensive impact on company's results than its logistics costs [Goebl, Froschmayer 2011].
Logistics operators (supply chain integrators) play the role in integration of all links of a supply chain as they are more and
more frequently present in the whole chain as one of its key elements. Thanks to effective connection networks, the provide supplied both on the local and global level. Apart from effective movement of goods, an information
flow in a supply chain is also very important. Employing homogenous information exchange systems contributes to improving efficiency and allows for implementing increasingly more advanced solutions.
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