外文翻译--物流外包确保组织竞争优势(编辑修改稿)

外文翻译--物流外包确保组织竞争优势(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

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 petitive advantage for an organization. 2 Contemporary logistics management and outsourcing The 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 may lead to a loss of customers and, thus, to a decrease of the pany’s petitive 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 chain into a unified system of direct management of material and information flows targeting the acplishment of the desired result with a minimum loss of time and resources. The implementation of an uptodate logistics management in panies provides reduction of stocks, high predisposition of merchandise towards deliveries, ordertodelivery leadtime 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 petitive 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 peting and where the pany has distinctive advantages (technology, knowhow, special equipment, and trained personnel). This approach can be defined as “core petence”. The universal practice therefore is to use “outsourcing” more and more widely. The term “outsourcing” suggests contraction or decline of one’s own business process, usually that, which is not the core one (not the profiling one) and/or that, which is not profitable for the pany and passing it to a pany, which specializes in this field. The main advantage in the use of outsourcing is that it lets the organization focus on its 7 basic activity. Organizations can actually pass to outsourcing each of their functions or activities ranging from human resources management to logistics, information maintenance, payroll processing and even production itself. 3 Types of logistics providers It is assumed that the outsourcing of logistics services (3PL’s Logistics Outsourcing) is defined as an activity which passes a part or all of the logistics functions, basically from the nonproduction character, to external logistics organizations – thirdparty logistics providers. Logistics providers (LP) can be further called Logistics Service Providers or 3PL providers (LSPs, 3PLs, TPLs). They are trade organizations, which provide services in the fields of logistics, execution of separate operations or plex logistics functions (warehoused stock, transportation, order management, physical distribution, etc.) and acplishment of integrated management of logistics chains of the clientorganization. Companies may leave under the control of an external partner all logistics operations。