Developing a Comprehensive Standard to Evaluate the Warehouse’s ‎Efficacy, Effectiveness and Performance

Proceedings of The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Research in Management, Economics and Accounting

Year: 2022

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Developing a Comprehensive Standard to Evaluate the Warehouse’s ‎Efficacy, Effectiveness and Performance

Abdallah Alalawin, and Wafa’ Alalaween

 

ABSTRACT: 

During the era of rapid globalization and eliminating the vertically integrated strategy from the company options to have ‎more control on its supply chain, outsourcing of logistic activities is considered as an alternative solution for vertical ‎integration. Companies for their out borders markets are looking in general for third-party logistics providers to provide the ‎warehousing service. Selecting this provider is based on the company criteria. Developing an international standard is the ‎objective of this paper, a comprehensive standard that can be used to evaluate the warehouse based on its performance, ‎efficiency, and effectiveness.  A qualitative method was used based on expert opinions and literature to develop the ‎standard, which was validated via experts opinion after evaluating the standard clauses in seven warehouses. A valid first ‎virgin draft of an international comprehensive standard is the result of this paper, a standard with ten main clauses can be ‎used by certification bodies to evaluate warehouses, to rate them, and to rank them. Thereafter, the company can use the ‎certificates, which are issued by the certification bodies to select the logistic provider instead of the current method of ‎selection, as result, the third party logistic providers selection process cost is reduced.‎

keywords: Warehouse assessment standard, third party logistic provider, logistic, Warehouse assessment standard.