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In recent years the strategy of concentrating on core competencies of companiesled to a vertical disintegration of processes along the value chain. Practicalexperience shows that companies focusing on their core competencies infirst turn outsource logistics operations within their supply chain to externalservice providers. A fundamental question to ask in this work is whether outsourcingis really value enhancing and, in particular, whether the firm thatundertakes outsourcing becomes more efficient as a result.It will be shown that in an attempt to increase efficiency by reducing expensesand turning fixed costs into variable costs, companies pursue restructuringprocedures that include outsourcing of non-core activities to specialistshaving a lower cost base due to better economies of scale and scope.Anyone who wants to outsource a function, or who wants to know moreabout how outsourcing works, can find within this book a discussion of selectedissues that may arise during this process, putting the main emphasis onthe planning stage as it is considered to be the critical factor in a successfuloutsourcing project.
