A MODEL FOR THE SUGGESTION OF LOGISTICS PARTNERS FOR VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS

摘要

In a Virtual Organization (VO) scenario the difficult to select the most appropriate logistic providers is even higher. Part of this is due to the intrinsic nature of a VO, which is a temporary and dynamic alliance of autonomous, heterogeneous and geographically dispersed companies (often small and medium enterprises) created to attend to very particular business opportunities, sharing costs, benefits and risks, and acting as it was one single enterprise. In the literature review the specification of the methodology for selecting logistics partners to compose virtual organizations using key performance indicators has not yet been adequately explored. This work proposes a methodological support, to be called as a framework for suggesting of logistics partners for virtual organizations (VOs) based on performance indicators analysis.