3PL Outsourcing
There are four principal steps in outsourcing to a 3PL:
Initiate Outsourcing
- Decide if a strategic decision to outsource some or all of logistics operations makes sense for your company.
- What pieces of supply chain to outsource.
- What regions to outsource.
- Decide if outsourcing will be a big bang or phased approach.
- Do you want the 3PL to implement a clean-sheet network design, or keep existing design and require 3PL to hire your logistics employees?
- The outsourcing initiative should be sponsored by an executive officer.
- Assemble a multi-disciplinary outsourcing team: transportation, warehousing, manufacturing, customer service, IT, human resources, finance and legal.
- Decide and define the scope of outsourced services and key 3PL attributes required to handle them.
