%0 Journal Article %A Carlos Sanchís-Pedregosa and María del Mar González-Zamora and José A. D. Machuca %D 2012 %J International Journal of Economics and Management Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 69, 2012 %T Identifying the Objectives of Outsourcing Logistics Services as a Basis for Measuring Its Financial and Operational Performance %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/7312 %V 69 %X Logistics outsourcing is a growing trend and measuring its performance, a challenge. It must be consistent with the objectives set for logistics outsourcing, but we have found no objective-based performance measurement system. We have conducted a comprehensive review of the specialist literature to cover this gap, which has led us to identify and define these objectives. The outcome is that we have obtained a list of the most relevant objectives and their descriptions. This will enable us to analyse in a future study whether the indicators used for measuring logistics outsourcing performance are consistent with the objectives pursued with the outsourcing. If this is not the case, a proposal will be made for a set of financial and operational indicators to measure performance in logistics outsourcing that take the goals being pursued into account. %P 2441 - 2447