Gartner: 85% of Logistics Leaders to Boost Outsourcing Budget

Eighty-five percent of logistics leaders expect that their outsourcing budget will increase by more than 5 percent in 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. Already for 2019, 85 percent reported a similar budget increase. “Outsourcing one or more logistics service types has become largely mainstream,” said Courtney Rogerson, senior principal analyst with the Gartner Supply Chain Practice. The question no longer is whether to outsource, but what and how much to outsource. Evaluating different outsourcing strategies has become a priority for logistics leaders.” Based on the Gartner 2019 Logistics Outsourcing Strategy Survey, one reason for the expected budget increase is that logistics outsourcing supports the business. Approximately 70 percent of respondents stated that functional, end-to-end (E2E) supply chain and overall business objectives have been met or exceeded with the help of logistics outsourcing counterparts, such as third-party-logistics providers (3PLs).