【正文】 ncrease of quality, expansion of production flexibility, lowering the cost of production, accelerated capital turnover. This guarantees lower production costs and better quality of deliveries, which is a decisive petitive advantage. Besides lowering the operative costs, together with the logistics ones, one of the basic directions of the organization strategy is concentrated on priority types of business and operations. This helps the rational allocation of resources to those types of business, which are worth peting and where the pany has distinctive advantages (technology, knowhow, special equipment, and trained personnel). This approach can be defined as “core petence”. The universal practice therefore is to use “outsourcing” more and more widely. The term “outsourcing” suggests contraction or decline of one’s own business process, usually that, which is not the core one (not the profiling one) and/or that, which is not profitable for the pany and passing it to a pany, which specializes in this field. The main advantage in the use of outsourcing is that it lets the organization focus on its basic activity. Organizations can actually pass to outsourcing each of their functions or activities ranging from human resources management to logistics, information maintenance, payroll processing and even production itself. 3. Types of logistics providers It is assumed that the outsourcing of logistics services (3PL’s Logistics Outsourcing) is defined as an activity which passes a part or all of the logistics functions, basically from the nonproduction character, to external logistics organizations – thirdparty logistics providers. Logistics providers (LP) can be further called Logistics Service Providers or 3PL providers (LSPs, 3PLs, TPLs). They are trade organizations, which provide services in the fields of logistics, execution of separate operations or plex logistics functions (warehoused stock, transportation, order management, physical distribution, etc.) and acplishment of integrated management of logistics chains of the clientorganization. Companies may leave under the control of an external partner all logistics operations, including consulting, execution of the necessary surveys, and implementation of information systems. These panies frequently possess rich experience in logistics management, have at their disposal qualified personnel and developed infrastructure (terminal or terminal work, car pool, often even international transport agents).3PL providers are predominantly daughter panies, which separate from their headquarters (a freight forwarder, a pany providing warehouse services, etc.) in order to satisfy the growing consumer needs and to offer them a wider range of services. There are five types of 3PL providers: LP – carrierpanies, LP – warehouse operators, LP – freight forwarding amp。 Growing flexibility of the pany, using outsourcing。 Insufficient expertise among employees in the pany, using outsourcing。 Strategic reasons. 4. Activities that can be passed to logistics outsourcing In logistics there is a multitude of plex activities, which can be passed for execution to outsourcing panies. These might include: management of inbound material flow (supply management), inventory management, and management of procedures for receiving and handling of customer offers, conventional and special packaging, transportation, JIT (justintime) deliveries, warehousing, information and software and hardware maintenance. Yet before a function will be passed to outsourcing pany it has to be considered which aspects of the pany activity will be influenced (. distribution costs, supervision of the supply chain, pany flexibility, customer service, seasonal fluctuations in pro