The article highlights the importance of logistics in Abkhazia in order to realize the potential of bilateral cooperation between Russia and Abkhazia. The study emphasizes the favorable terms for new financial flows development, the need for modernization of agriculture logistics and creation of warehouses, the interest of the RF to the transit potential of the RA, as well as great opportunities for the development of logistics and tourism infrastructure in the RA.

Key words. Regional logistics, financial flows, state logistics, warehouse, transport infrastructure, transit potential, travel logistics.

In the article authors compare two fundamental approaches to order fulfillment. First one is traditional functional approach where «order management» is a logistics function. On the other hand, process centric approach considers «order fulfillment» like key business process in supply chain management. Researchers investigate typical problems in core steps of order fulfillment process and its key performance indicators. In the context of process centric approach authors suggest allocation of responsibility between main supply chain agents on strategic and operational level of «order fulfillment» process. Moreover, researchers identify coordination mechanisms on the main steps of analyzed process. In addition, they give comparative analysis of different approaches to efficiency evaluation of order fulfillment process.

Key words. Logistics, order management, functional approach, supply chain management, order fulfillment, process centric approach.

The paper investigates the specific features of new format of the procedures for determining the best solution to solve multicriteria optimization problems in the supply chain. This format includes: 1) modifying indicators of the particular criteria considering the corresponding attitude of decision maker (DM) to them and their importance for DM; 2) the selection on the basis of the criteria of traditional theory. The paper proves that the use of generalized selection criteria ensures stability of alternatives ranking to a change in preferences of DM on the importance of partial criteria. This gives managers new opportunities to improve the quality of decisions by better adapting them to the preferences of DM in situations when these preferences may vary. Illustrations are given in the example of the problems associated with the optimization of locations of the warehouse and its form of ownership.

Key words. Determination of deployment places and ownership for the warehouse, analytic hierarchy process, adapting the choice to the preferences of the decision maker, generalized methods of multicriteria optimization.