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SMEs logistics outsourcing risk analysis and prevention strategies

Nan Li, Yunlan Chen

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Abstract

Logistics outsourcing, as a new logistics mode, plays an important role in focusing resources on core business, and also reduces logistics costs and improves customer satisfaction. Therefore, more and more SMEs pay close attention to logistics outsourcing. However, when the enterprise selected the logistics outsourcing, there are also many risks. The success of logistics outsourcing depends largely on whether an enterprise can effectively prevent these risks. This paper studies a large number of books, periodicals, network resources, combines the reality, has analyzed the major causes of logistics outsourcing risk, and put them into two categories: the risk of implementation of logistics outsourcing and the risk of management of logistics outsourcing, then put forward the corresponding risk prevention strategies. This classification will help SMEs better understand the causes of logistics outsourcing risk and corresponding prevention strategies.

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Logistics outsourcing, as a new logistics mode, plays an important role in focusing resources on core business, and also reduces logistics costs and improves customer satisfaction. Therefore, more and more SMEs pay close attention to logistics outsourcing. However, when the enterprise selected the logistics outsourcing, there are also many risks. The success of logistics outsourcing depends largely on whether an enterprise can effectively prevent these risks. This paper studies a large number of books, periodicals, network resources, combines the reality, has analyzed the major causes of logistics outsourcing risk, and put them into two categories: the risk of implementation of logistics outsourcing and the risk of management of logistics outsourcing, then put forward the corresponding risk prevention strategies. This classification will help SMEs better understand the causes of logistics outsourcing risk and corresponding prevention strategies.

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Logistics outsourcing, as a new logistics mode, plays an important role in focusing resources on core business, and also reduces logistics costs and improves customer satisfaction. Therefore, more and more SMEs pay close attention to logistics outsourcing. However, when the enterprise selected the logistics outsourcing, there are also many risks. The success of logistics outsourcing depends largely on whether an enterprise can effectively prevent these risks. This paper studies a large number of books, periodicals, network resources, combines the reality, has analyzed the major causes of logistics outsourcing risk, and put them into two categories: the risk of implementation of logistics outsourcing and the risk of management of logistics outsourcing, then put forward the corresponding risk prevention strategies. This classification will help SMEs better understand the causes of logistics outsourcing risk and corresponding prevention strategies.

Key concepts: Outsourcing, Business, Knowledge process outsourcing, Humanitarian Logistics, Risk management, Integrated logistics support, Industrial organization, Process management

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