Typologies and taxonomies of logistics service providers: a literature review

The logistics services industry has significantly changed in the last decades as well as the logistics service providers (LSP) profile. In the literature, proposals to classify these companies are identified in several studies. Although different criteria support the author´s proposals, there is a t...

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Autores: Quinteiro Neto, Eurico Laydner, Luna, Mônica Maria Mendes
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:Brasil
Institución:Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte (UNIBH)
Repositorio:Revista e-xacta
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.uninove.br:article/8067
Acceso en línea:https://periodicos.uninove.br/exacta/article/view/8067
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Logistics Outsourcing
Logistics Service Provider
Classification.
Terceirização Logística
Prestadores de Serviços Logístico
Classificação.
Descripción
Sumario:The logistics services industry has significantly changed in the last decades as well as the logistics service providers (LSP) profile. In the literature, proposals to classify these companies are identified in several studies. Although different criteria support the author´s proposals, there is a tendency to adopt criteria related to the LSP competences in recent years. This article presents a review of the literature and aims to analyze LSP classifications structures and their criteria. To this end, 14 proposals published over a 26-year period were identified, which include both typologies and taxonomies. The results allow us to affirm that criteria such as "asset ownership", adopted in the first proposals of typologies, declined in importance over time, while complexity of the logistics services, customization of these services and LSP capacity to integrate supply chain members became more important.