Logistics services: The state of play of the Moroccan context

Abstract

Global trends in corporate governance, under the increasingly fierce pressure of competition, are increasingly endorsing the focus on core business and the more or less total pruning of trades that do not present competitive advantages. These include Logistics Services (LSs), which by their universal and standard nature have seen the emergence of specialists in this field, which by the volume effect are able to professionalize and control costs. Cost-driven companies then prefer to buy these services than to produce them in-house, but considering the size of these operations, their repetitive nature and their importance in the company's fundamental processes (Procurement, Storage, Production, Distribution, etc.) can no longer be considered as simple transactions to be purchased from a Logistics Services Provider (LSP). This article is particularly interested in LSs and associated terms, highlights the different phases of the purchasing process of these services and finally focuses on the situation of these latter in Morocco.