Includes bibliographical references and index.

The concept of logistics outsourcing -- General views of logistics, outsourcing, and logistics outsourcing / Leonidas Baziotopoulos -- A framework for the management of logistics outsourcing life cycle / Dimitris Folinas -- Contracting for logistics services : a critical appraisal of the outsourcing process / Kostas Selviaridis -- Logistics service providers : collaboration with iffs, 3PL or 4PL providers? / Papadopoulou Eleni-Maria -- Taking logistics service providers into account in industrial classifications / Laurence Saglietto -- The management of logistics outsourcing services -- Outsourcing execution in transportation and distribution / Paulo Mendes, Jr. and José Eugenio Leal -- Outsourcing the warehousing function : a survey of Greek practices / Socrates Moschuris and Socrates Nikitas -- Sequencing orders from multiple industrial customers on an external manufacturing facility / Dimitrios Koulouriotis and Anastasios Xanthopoulos -- Short-term time series prediction for a logistics outsourcing company / Angeliki Papana -- Case studies and empirical studies of logistics outsourcing -- Does the outsourcing of logistics services keep its promise of increased efficiency? : the case of Colgate, Greece / Aliona Grigorenco, Philippos Papadopoulos, and Konstantinos Rotsios -- Service innovation along the chain of service process in airline business / Yudi Fernando -- Distribution and logistics outsourcing in the pharmaceutical sector / George Malindretos -- Logistics modeling and forecasting with regression / Ariadni Papana Dagiasis -- Outsourcing supply chain support and its effectiveness and implication in R&D environment in Singapore / Dimitris Folinas and Lye Hock Sim -- Selection and evaluation of the logistics service providers -- Overview on 3PL selection problem / Aicha Aguezzoul -- Selection and evaluation of 3PL providers : a conceptual decision-making framework / Christos Keramydas, Naoum Tsolakis, Anastasios Xanthopoulos, and Dimitrios Aidonis -- Selection of the 3rd/4th party logistics provider : a multi-criteria approach / Voulgarakis Nikolaos, Aidonis Dimitris, Achillas Charisios, Triantafillou Dimitrios, Moussiopoulos Nicolas -- Multi-criteria decision making for supplier selection in biomass supply networks for bioenergy production / Vasiliki Kazantzi, Vassilis Gerogiannis and Leonidas Anthopoulos -- Measuring performance of logistics outsourcing services / Harlina Suzana Jaafar and Mohammed Rafiq -- Costing and legal issues of logistics outsourcing -- Using outsourced logistics services (4PL) : economical and technical analysis of an operational and business model / Vasileios Giotopoulos, Dimitrios Koulouriotis, and Vasileios Moustakis -- Pricing of 3PL services / Dimitris Papasotiriou -- Key contractual issues with logistics outsourcing / Sam De Silva -- Planning negotiations for logistics services providers / Miltiadis Sarigiannidis -- Loyalty and disloyalty in logistics outsourcing relationships / Jari Juga and Jouni Juntunen -- Trends in outsourcing logistics services -- The effects of the financial crisis on 3PL enterprises a focus in the Greek market / Fotios Misopoulos and Konstantinos Papathanasiou -- Purchasing green transport and logistics services : implications from the environmental sustainability attitude of 3PLs / Pietro Evangelista, Maria Huge-Brodin, Karin Isaksson, and Edward Sweeney -- Moving toward a global supply chain operations and the impact on international competition / Seyed-Mahmoud Aghazadeh -- Managing the risks of outsourcing it security in supply chain / Theodosios Tsiakis and Panagiotis Tsiakis -- Compilation of references -- About the contributors -- Index.

"This book is concentrated on the key players of the outsourcing paradigm; the organizations that provide logistics services, the Third Party Logistics (3PL's), as well as their clients, presenting and promoting the lessons learned by their cooperation"--Provided by publisher.