Sunday 2 February 2014

All about logistics outsourcing

A simple definition of logistics is “managing the stream of resources from the point of origin to the end”.

When a company develops, there is a chance for mismanagement at any level of its process. In order to get rid of this, logistics outsourcing might be helpful. Logistic outsourcing is to link a process in the company with a third party business to make sure that the supply and demand is managed, controlled and handled better.

For instance, for a milk supplier, milk has to be supplied as quickly as possible to their customers. If they want to manage the transport of milk they would need an additional team to handle and manage their transport. Instead of buying trucks the milk supplier hires some agency to transfer milk from their firm to the consumers. This is the actual process behind logistics outsourcing.

Let us have a look at the benefits of logistics outsourcing

•    The company which undertakes outsourcing a process will have experienced staff and resources to perform that task (A company undertaking transport will have trucks and drivers).

•    The third party is completely responsible for the task it has taken up. Thus we can expect better efficiency.

•    Outsourcing of logistics reduces the burden on the company’s management by saving work stress, time and more importantly money.

A bunch of sticks is difficult to break when held together but, can easily be broken on splitting. Therefore for a big company it is good to split the bunch of tasks by logistics outsourcing and thereby obtain more efficiency and save money.

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