Developing of Transportation Flows in 21st Century Supply Chains. SE 121
Supply chains are the natural work environment for logisticians who strive for their improvement through employing carefully selected methods, tools and concepts with overarching objective of logistics at their heart i.e. to assure product availability in line with predetermined rules. It seems that this environment is going to remain a tangible dimension in which logistics are immersed but also an area subject to optimisation both through theoretical concepts as well as practical endeavours. Assuring efficient flows of materials and information within supply chains poses multiple problems of organisational nature. Hence, transport issues have attained practical, ever-growing importance, but they also have become a conceptual challenge. Therefore, as the instigator behind publishing this body of work and as its Scientific Editor I have decided that these issues are worth of considerable attention that could - perhaps - start an interdisciplinary and international discussion on these matters. By writing “interdisciplinary” above all I refer to the fact that both economic and technical experts deal with transport issues. The shear diversity of approaches and emphases put on different aspects could have a strong, inspiring effect on the Reader, and it can be the first step towards combining in a creative manner both takes on the matter.
„Studia Ekonomiczne” nr 121 – Zeszyty Naukowe Wydziałowe Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Katowicach.
INTRODUCTION 7
Chapter One: LOGISTICS/SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT 9
Jarosław Witkowski, Bartłomiej Rodawski: THE ESSENCE AND SCOPE OF SUPPLY CHAIN STRATEGY 11
Andrzej Bujak, Damian Ostrowski: THE ROLE OF STRATEGIC ANALYSIS IN LOGISTICAL MANAGEMENT 33
Andrzej Bujak, Natalya Gubskaya: INNOVATIONS AND CHANGES IN THE LOGISTICS TASKS IMPLEMENTATIONS 45
Jacek Szołtysek, Grażyna Trzpiot: ASSIMILATION OF QUALITATIVE ANALYTICS METHODOLOGY FOR LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT 59
Joanna Nowakowska-Grunt, Aleksandra Nowakowska: SELECTED TOOLS OF INFORMATION FLOW MANAGEMENT IN LOGISTICS 73
Chapter Two: TRANSPORT 83
Mirosław Chaberek, Grażyna Karwacka: RAILWAY INTEROPERABILITY AS A FACTOR OF DEVELOPING TRANSPORTATION FLOWS IN 21ST CENTURY SUPPLY CHAINS 85
Martin Hart, Xenie Lukoszová, Jaroslav Rašner: CONTEMPORARY SUPPLY CHAIN TRENDS AND WORLD’S FREIGHT TRAFFIC 99
Tomasz Nowakowski: PROBLEMS OF TRANSPORTATION PROCESS RELIABILITY MODELLING 113
Eugene Korovyakovsky, Ivan Evdokimov, Yulia Panova, Varvara Tikhonova: SIMULATION OF TRANSPORT FLOWS AND THEIR ANALYSIS 133
Sebastian Kot, Beata Ślusarczyk: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ANALYSIS IN TRANSPORT PROCESSES 141
Alina Lipińska-Słota: TRANSPORT IN THE POLISH LOGISTICS SYSTEM 147
Olli-Pekka Hilmola: NORTH EUROPEAN LOGISTICS FLOWS WITH RIC: SPARSE AND UNBALANCED VOLUME 159
Chapter Three: CITY LOGISTICS 177
Maciej Szymczak, Hubert Igliński: IMPROVEMENT OF TRANSPORT SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY AND INTEGRATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN THE POZNAŃ AGGLOMERATION 179
Sabina Kauf: MOBILITY – A PUBLIC ISSUE 191