What is it about?
Since the economic recession of 2008, logistics outsourcing decisions have become more prominent to avoid high fixed costs and heavy investment requirements and to achieve competitive advantages. The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight to the outsourcing decision-making through investigating if the old evaluation/selection criteria and methods still fit with current business priorities or not and, therefore, to identify the appropriate criteria and methods to develop a new selection framework.
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Why is it important?
It is the first focused logistics outsourcing study that reviews the 2008-2013 period in detail, comparing results with previous literature studies, identifies current LSPs literature problems/gaps, new trends and shifts in the way that LSPs are evaluated and selected, identifies crucial selection criteria and proposes a new holistic LSPs evaluation and selection framework. In addition, it identifies important issues for future research.
Perspectives
Strategic logistics outsourcing is one of the main issues in the SCM . Due to the fact that strategic decisions are affected by a large number of complex interrelated factors, it is so difficult to perform such decision under uncertain environments, therefore, the need to identify crucial factors and methods to be sued in such process is highly important. This paper provides an insight to the outsourcing decision-making through investigating if the old evaluation/selection criteria and methods still fit with current business priorities or not, and to identify the appropriate criteria and methods to develop a new selection framework. The review reveals that: several problems in current LSPs literature have been identified; the reviewed papers can be categorized into seven groups, the usage and importance of evaluation and selection criteria fluctuate during different periods; 12 crucial criteria have been identified, increasing the importance of specific selection methods and the integrated models and fuzzy logic in logistics literature. Then, a comprehensive LSPs’ evaluation and selection framework has been developed. This work basis for more research in the context of logistics mgmt, firms relationships, and SCM in general.
Dr Saleh Fahed Alkhatib
Yarmouk University
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This page is a summary of: Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) evaluation and selection, Strategic Outsourcing An International Journal, February 2015, Emerald,
DOI: 10.1108/so-12-2014-0028.
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