Outsourcing logistics: Strategic tools for decision to outsource logistic activities

Abstract

Logistics outsourcing is becoming a common phenomenon nowadays. In other words, an industrial or commercial company is to delegate all or part of its logistic activities to a Logistic Service Provider. It is considered an important factor for competitiveness, flexibility and better responsiveness to fulfill the needs of new economic challenges. This strategy has been growing steadily over the past ten years for both industrial and tertiary activities. Although many reasons are behind this movement, it seems interesting to problematize the lack or even the absence of research on logistics outsourcing in the Moroccan context. Given this criterion, a part of this research will be dedicated to determine the strategic tool on which the managers are going to tap into to make a good decision of outsourcing.