Outsourcing has been hailed as one of the most important management concepts of the past 75 years. It has become a popular means of increasing the value of activities undertaken within the supply chain.
It allows for focusing on the organization’s core competencies, providing a differentiated level of service, and achieving greater operational flexibility, which in turn leads to gaining a greater advantage in a competitive market.
It allows for focusing on the organization’s core competencies, providing a differentiated level of service, and achieving greater operational flexibility, which in turn leads to gaining a greater advantage in a competitive market.
Fourth Party Logistics TM organizations are a new approach to outsourcing within the supply chain, which sets a path for how to achieve more than just operational cost reduction and asset transfer within a traditional outsourcing system. Through alliances formed between the best representatives of 3PL enterprises, technology providers, and management consultants, 4PL organizations can create unparalleled and comprehensive solutions across the entire supply chain, bringing measurable economic benefits to all its participants that would be impossible to achieve by a single provider.
The article comes from the magazine “Logistyka” 2002/1.