Assessment of logistic outsourcing of the innovatively-active enterprise

Assessment of logistic outsourcing of the innovatively-active enterpriseThe aim of the article. The object of this article is a comparative analysis, systematization of assessment methods and methodological approach development to assess the logistics outsourcing assessment of the innovatively active enterprise. The results of the analysis. Due to our research, five approaches for outsourcing assessment were identified.The first approach suggests such way of outsourcing efficiency assessment: when index of outsourcing effectiveness is considered as a difference between the costs in a case; when process is conducted, using the enterprise resources and in a case, when the process is conducted by another enterprise. The second approach includes the calculation of index of outsourcing effectiveness. The third approach includes the assessment criterion of outsourcing effectiveness development. The fourth approach includes methods that combine enterprise income and expenses variation. The fifth approach includes the assessment of outsourcing effectiveness, which is based on change of performed function quality.The existence of multiple assessment methods of outsourcing effectiveness and disadvantages of their usage make it difficult to find acceptable solutions for methodological practice and also make the widely usage of the above mentioned methodological approaches in the process of the outsourcing effectiveness assessment impossible. It is especially subject to logistics outsourcing of the innovatively active enterprise, because indexes for its assessment are not quantitative, but they are qualitative. Special attention is paid to such indexes as confidentiality, skill level of workers, enterprise flexibility to customer requirements, availability of the necessary certificates and so on.To conduct the logistics outsourcing assessment of the innovatively active enterprise such stages are proposed:The assessment of the implementation expediency of logistics outsourcing. This stage includes: 1.Detection of function(s) for transferring to outsourcing. 2. Creation of set of Fn indexes to assess the quality and cost of functions performing. 3. Determination of regulatory value of Fnmin and Fnmax indexes. 4. Calculation of In index. 5. Calculation of the feasibility index of function I outsourcing / insourcing).Selection of logistics provider. This stage includes: 1. Logistics providers detection. 2. Formation of the providers assessment criteria and their validity. 3. Assessment of outsourcers criteria. 4.Calculation of the relative assessment of companies indexes. 5. The decision-making according to logistics functions for outsourcing).Conclusions and directions of further researches. The systematization of assessment methods of the enterprise outsourcing is performed in the article. Methodological approach for logistics outsourcing assessment of the innovatively active enterprise is suggested. This methodological approach is based on a comparative assessment of the most important performance characteristics that provide implementation of the functions for two variants: insourcing and outsourcing. For such assessment the complex of regulatory indicators that determines the quality and value of the function was formed. The future work within this perspective aim is to clarify this methodological approach by expanding set of factors which influence on the choice of logistics providers of manufacturers of industrial goods.