물류아웃소싱 결정요인과 성과에 관한 실증연구

The concept of logistics outsourcing has been shown a considerable interest during the past several years because logistics activities have traditionally been performed within an organizations. Today many firms demand a high level of expertise in key business like manufacturing. Accordingly logistics services have led many companies to consider the use of third party services. This paper investigates perceptions of trading firms on key logistics outsourcing: why they outsource, what logistics functions need to be outsourced, which third party logistics providers need to be selected, and how areas of outsourcing affect the performance. In addition to an analysis of the current literature, we perform empirical test of firms utilizing logistics service The key findings of the work reveal that reasons for outsourcing such as asset-specific characteristics of third-party logistics providers, key business focus in trading firms, and saving needs of logistics cost of trading firms significantly affect outsourced logistics areas at 0.05 level. And service quality in selection criteria for logistics service providers significantly affects outsourced logistics areas. Also outsourced logistics areas have a positive impact on logistics performance. This survey provides the based strategy on the perceptions of trading firms to third party logistics provider, but neglects the combined use of third party logistics providers and in house logistics department.