Collaboration between Logistics Service Providers and the Bulgarian Manufacturing and Trade Enterprises

In strategy realisation manufacturing and trade enterprises perform a complex mix of activities, including logistics. They can de­cide whether to do them independently or to outsource to specialised organisations. This practice is common for the logistics and these organisations are called logistics service provid­ers. They perform different solutions for man­agement of the material flows across the supply chain – usually transport and warehousing ser­vices. This partnership is extremely important because the negative impact of the inadequate realisation is on the company that outsource and for the whole supply chain. That is why the abilities of the logistics service providers determinate overall performance of the supply chain. In the article are encompassed the main aspects of the interaction between logistics ser­vice providers and Bulgarian manufacturing and trade enterprises. By conducting a survey the main characteristics of this collaboration are re­vealed. The results show that the logistics ser­vice providers have high level of orientation and they are flexible to the needs of their customers and variety of technological facilities exist for achieving active partnership, unfortunately all of this in not fully used