Outsourcing as an Innovative Approach to Logistics Services of Warehousing: A Case Study

Abstract

Outsourcing is all over the world mainly used as a tool of strategic management, namely as a tool for optimizing enterprise resource consumption during orientation on basic strategic objectives of the company. Logistics services especially warehousing are among the most outsourced field in the last few decades. The use of outsourcing in the automotive industry will be presented on the real case study which is the method of the qualitative research based on the study of one or a small amount of situations for application of the findings for the similar cases. The case study is focused on logistic outsourcing between the logistics service provider and producer of automotive seats. This article deals with the detailed layout analysis of integrating the logistics service providers to the warehousing, material manipulation and material checking and moreover integrating the providers to pre-fabricated operations of sticking the car seats heating systems. The article is based on the research of world literature, interviews with managers and analyses of internal data of the companies. Using the outsourcing for logistics operations and pre-fabricated operations of car seats heaters the costs will be reduced.