Adapting Private Sector Warehousing Services to the Needs of the Lithuanian Armed Forces

Abstract

The need for increase a military capability of the Lithuanian Armed Forces due to the increasing national threats (especially taking into consideration the latest events in Ukraine), calls for a growing number of military equipment and techniques (we do not consider explosives and ammunition). This, hypothetically, requires more storage spaces and warehousing operations, and encourage the Armed Forces to seek for a cooperation with the private sector, which, without any doubt, has more expertise and technical equipment. The potential of private sector warehousing services to meet the needs of the Lithuanian Armed Forces has not yet been fully assessed and exploited. For this reason, the main objective is to understand the nature of current relations between the Lithuanian Armed Forces and private sector providing logistics services. Using the method of systematic analysis of legal acts and documents led to the understanding of the theoretical aspects of public-private cooperation in the field of warehousing services, while application of qualitative research using a structured interview method allowed for the identification of current situation of cooperation between the Lithuanian Armed Forces and the private sector as well as identification of the reasons why private sector warehousing services have not been widely used in the Lithuanian Armed Forces. The article ends with counting the measures which would enable the use of private sector warehousing services to meet the Lithuanian Armed Forces’ needs.