This paper examines the existence of distinct levels of partnerships in the outsourcing of logistics functions outsourced. The paper also investigates the significance of the various elements of the relationship marketing and relationship outcomes on the types of partnership. Using empirical...

The importance of environmental consideration for companies is mounting. This applies particularly well to logistics service providers (LSPs) who will have a possibility to compete by being greener than their competitors by offering services that include different green practices. As their...

One of the most important problems in the petroleum industry is the well-known petrol station replenishment problem with time windows, which calls for the determination of optimal routes by using a fleet of tank trucks to serve a set of petrol stations over a given planning horizon. In this...

Purpose: The Selection of logistics service providers is an important issue in supply chain management. But different evaluation methods may lead to different results, which could cause inconsistent conclusions. This paper makes use of a new perspective to combine with a variety of methods to...

Governance mechanisms are viewed as critical to prevent opportunism in horizontal cooperations, as they are more conflicting in nature than vertical cooperations. Although these forms of cooperations become particularly popular under uncertain conditions, they have not yet been analyzed in depth...