Diverse onderzoeken hebben aangetoond dat producenten aanzienlijke kosten- en servicevoordelen kunnen behalen door betere samenwerking met logistieke dienstverleners. Daarnaast geven de huidige ontwikkelingen binnen de chemie voldoende aanleiding om de samenwerking op logistiek gebied te verbeteren. …

This paper is an intermediate result of a PhD research project undertaken by Lenny Visser with Cees Ruijgrok as supervisor. The final objective of this project is to measure thresholds in logistics outsourcing decisions, especially for the chemical sector. If we are able to measure the relative importance …

Summary Project objectives This study fits into a larger research project on logistics collaboration and outsourcing decisions. The final objective of this larger project is to analyze the logistics collaboration decision in more detail to identify thresholds in these decisions. To reach the overall …

Abstract Although organizations, both shippers and logistics service providers, are convinced of the potential of collaboration, it is still not successful in many cases. Therefore, collaboration in logistics is chosen as central theme for this paper. The contribution to this topic is twofold. First, …