Kierunki i sposoby wykorzystania outsourcingu i offshoringu w przedsiębiorstwach logistycznych

The article presents the essence of concepts of outsourcing and offshoring consisting in assigning of certain activities to domestic or foreign entities. These approaches are current, widely used in the world. Thanks to offshoring and outsourcing the company can improve its competitiveness, reduce costs and manage their resources more flexible. For a deeper analysis of this phenomenon, research surveys related to the assessment of the possibilities of using this method among people involved in management and logistics have been conducted. This allowed to see the main benefits of outsourcing, implementation barriers of this method and determine main reasons for using this approach in companies.