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1、AbstractThe logistics approach suggests integration of separate units in the delivery supply chain into a unified system of direct management of material and information flows targeting the accomplishment of the desired result with a minimum loss of time and resources.The implementation of an up-to-
2、date logistics management in companies provides more effectiveness. This means to use outsourcing. Logistics outsourcing brings to the reduction of stocks, order-to-delivery lead-time reductions and an increase of quality, expansion of production flexibility, lowering the cost of production, acceler
3、ated capital turnover. This guarantees lower production costs and better quality of deliveries, which is a decisive competitive advantage. The application of logistics outsourcing helps the rational allocation of resources to those types of business, which are worth competing and where the company h
4、as distinctive advantages.So this work debates the application of logistics outsourcing as a means for ensuring competitive advantages for an organization.Keywords: outsourcing, logistics, provider1. IntroductionThe competitive advantages, connected with the growth of globalization and innovations,
5、begin to lose gradually their originality, and new competitive advantages come up in front-flexibility, order-to-delivery lead-time reductions, reliable and quality deliveries, and choice opportunities. The ability of manufacturers to join the individual consumer preferences together with their prod
6、uction process and system of planning will be a decisive factor in the field of competition. The solution of the problem with individual client orders is possible only by setting up of a flexible system of production management.Firstly, it will require the implementation of new and up-to-date concep
7、ts of production management like CFM (Customer Focused Manufacturing), SCM (Supply Chain Management) and technologies, based on the same concepts as ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), etc. It will also require supply handling, synchronized with production and
8、 effective distribution based on the interaction of logistics intermediaries.Secondly, it is necessary to optimize the transportation system both at a micro- and macro-level. The complex development of transport infrastructure is based on the standardization of goods and freight, means of transporta
9、tion, mechanisms of handling cargo, delivery speed, widening of road and railway networks, improvement of service maintenance.Thirdly, the information exchange plays an increasing part. Industrial companies have to interact in the field of information so that information can be accessed in the right
10、 form, at the right time, by the right authorities and in authentic type, protected from unauthorized use.The aim of the paper is to examine the application of logistics outsourcing as a means of assuring a competitive advantage for an organization.2. Contemporary logistics management and outsourcin
11、gThe aim of logistics process is formulated by the basic rule of logistics the 7R principle: the right product with the right quality in the right quantity has to be delivered at the right time and right place to the right customer at the right cost. Disregarding of even one of the above conditions
12、may lead to a loss of customers and, thus, to a decrease of the companys competitive advantages and reduction of its market share.The logistics approach, unlike the traditional one, suggests integration (technical, technological, information and economic) of separate units in the delivery supply cha
13、in into a unified system of direct management of material and information flows targeting the accomplishment of the desired result with a minimum loss of time and resources.The implementation of an up-to-date logistics management in companies provides reduction of stocks, high predisposition of merc
14、handise towards deliveries, order-to-delivery lead-time reductions and an increase of quality, expansion of production flexibility, lowering the cost of production, accelerated capital turnover. This guarantees lower production costs and better quality of deliveries, which is a decisive competitive
15、advantage.Besides lowering the operative costs, together with the logistics ones, one of the basic directions of the organization strategy is concentrated on priority types of business and operations. This helps the rational allocation of resources to those types of business, which are worth competi
16、ng and where the company has distinctive advantages (technology, know-how, special equipment, and trained personnel). This approach can be defined as “core competence”.The universal practice therefore is to use “outsourcing” more and more widely.The term “outsourcing” suggests contraction or decline of ones own business process, usually that, which is not the core one (not the profiling one) and/or that, which is not profitable for the company and passing it to a company, which spe
