Abstract:
The functioning of logistics systems is a comprehensive process that includes technical, technological, economic, organizational, information, financial and other aspects. The process of their project development from the point of view of the warehouse subsystem should determine the place of the warehouse link in the logistics chain, as well as formulate requirements for warehouses in accordance with the goals of the entire logistics system. The relevance of the research topic is dictated by the relatively low interest on the part of practitioners in the developed methods and models that allow making decisions about distribution channels for finished products and consumer goods. Well-known optimization transport models make it possible to find the optimal solution in sections of the distribution chain, which does not always lead to a system optimum. In the article, the author focuses on isolating logistics costs from the total costs of an enterprise and, accordingly, the need to minimize them, as well as provides a justification for the use of distribution centers as logistics intermediaries, thereby structuring a multi-level logistics system.
In the considered formulation of the project development problem, the transporting subsystem involves the transportation of goods in containers, taking into account the need to arrange containers in distribution centers and form shipments to end consumers on pallets using ground transport.
The proposed economic and mathematical model makes it possible to minimize not only logistics costs, but also the number of logistics intermediaries. The model makes it possible to obtain a logistics chain at the stage of cargo delivery from suppliers through transshipment ports to distribution centers with their further assignment to wholesale (retail) consumers.
