Outsourcing management for supply chain operations and logistics services
By: Dimitris Folinas, editor
Publisher: Business Science Reference
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hershey, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9781466620087; 9781466620094; 9781466620100
Subjects: Business logistics; Contracting out
Description: "This book is concentrated on the key players of the outsourcing paradigm; the organizations that provide logistics services, the Third Party Logistics (3PL's), as well as their clients, presenting and promoting the lessons learned by their cooperation"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The concept of logistics outsourcing; title: General views of logistics, outsourcing, and logistics outsourcing / Leonidas Baziotopoulos; title: A framework for the management of logistics outsourcing life cycle / Dimitris Folinas; title: Contracting for logistics services : a critical appraisal of the outsourcing process / Kostas Selviaridis; title: Logistics service providers : collaboration with iffs, 3PL or 4PL providers? / Papadopoulou Eleni-Maria; title: Taking logistics service providers into account in industrial classifications / Laurence Saglietto; title: The management of logistics outsourcing services; title: Outsourcing execution in transportation and distribution / Paulo Mendes, Jr. and José Eugenio Leal; title: Outsourcing the warehousing function : a survey of Greek practices / Socrates Moschuris and Socrates Nikitas; title: Sequencing orders from multiple industrial customers on an external manufacturing facility / Dimitrios Koulouriotis and Anastasios Xanthopoulos; title: Short-term time series prediction for a logistics outsourcing company / Angeliki Papana; title: Case studies and empirical studies of logistics outsourcing; title: Does the outsourcing of logistics services keep its promise of increased efficiency? : the case of Colgate, Greece / Aliona Grigorenco, Philippos Papadopoulos, and Konstantinos Rotsios; title: Service innovation along the chain of service process in airline business / Yudi Fernando; title: Distribution and logistics outsourcing in the pharmaceutical sector / George Malindretos; title: Logistics modeling and forecasting with regression / Ariadni Papana Dagiasis; title: Outsourcing supply chain support and its effectiveness and implication in R&D environment in Singapore / Dimitris Folinas and Lye Hock Sim; title: Selection and evaluation of the logistics service providers; title: Overview on 3PL selection problem / Aicha Aguezzoul; title: Selection and evaluation of 3PL providers : a conceptual decision-making framework / Christos Keramydas, Naoum Tsolakis, Anastasios Xanthopoulos, and Dimitrios Aidonis; title: Selection of the 3rd/4th party logistics provider : a multi-criteria approach / Voulgarakis Nikolaos, Aidonis Dimitris, Achillas Charisios, Triantafillou Dimitrios, Moussiopoulos Nicolas; title: Multi-criteria decision making for supplier selection in biomass supply networks for bioenergy production / Vasiliki Kazantzi, Vassilis Gerogiannis and Leonidas Anthopoulos; title: Measuring performance of logistics outsourcing services / Harlina Suzana Jaafar and Mohammed Rafiq; title: Costing and legal issues of logistics outsourcing; title: Using outsourced logistics services (4PL) : economical and technical analysis of an operational and business model / Vasileios Giotopoulos, Dimitrios Koulouriotis, and Vasileios Moustakis; title: Pricing of 3PL services / Dimitris Papasotiriou; title: Key contractual issues with logistics outsourcing / Sam De Silva; title: Planning negotiations for logistics services providers / Miltiadis Sarigiannidis; title: Loyalty and disloyalty in logistics outsourcing relationships / Jari Juga and Jouni Juntunen; title: Trends in outsourcing logistics services; title: The effects of the financial crisis on 3PL enterprises a focus in the Greek market / Fotios Misopoulos and Konstantinos Papathanasiou; title: Purchasing green transport and logistics services : implications from the environmental sustainability attitude of 3PLs / Pietro Evangelista, Maria Huge-Brodin, Karin Isaksson, and Edward Sweeney; title: Moving toward a global supply chain operations and the impact on international competition / Seyed-Mahmoud Aghazadeh; title: Managing the risks of outsourcing it security in supply chain / Theodosios Tsiakis and Panagiotis Tsiakis; title: Compilation of references; title: About the contributors; title: Index.