Dear readers! The tenth issue of LOGISTICS journal opens with a large article dedicated to the results of the BRICS Business Forum, held on October 18, 2024 in Moscow. Yulia Kislova, Director of Agency Market Guide LLC and publisher of LOGISTICS journal, attended the event and prepared an article where she paid special attention to international trade and logistical connectivity of the countries of the association. The details are in the room.
Dear readers! We present to your attention the ninth issue of the Logistics magazine, in which we have collected and combined relevant materials. On the pages of the new issue, we paid close attention to the personnel problem. You will be interested in SuperJob's research on changes in demand for personnel over the year, salaries of truck drivers and warehouse staff. Our author V.S.
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Annotation. The article analyzes the reliability of cargo delivery and the proportion of freight shipments that passed through the road infrastructure on time on the railway network. The internal and external factors influencing the fulfillment of the set delivery time in general and the factors influencing the volume of transport work in the south of Russia are analyzed. Comprehensive measures have been planned to more carefully plan and manage the company's resources, monitor the condition of goods en route, and improve the quality and speed of cargo delivery in conditions of changing transport operations.
Key words. Rail transport, analysis, cargo delivery time, delivery reliability, causes of delays, internal and external factors, transport infrastructure.
Annotation. The article discusses about new conceptual schematic and layout solutions for a railway station and an adjacent container terminal which designed to sort containers and other intermodal transport units between trains without breaking up of a trains. Additionally, there are considerations for the prospects for establishing a network of container distribution terminals and their potential impact on the loading capacity of sorting station.
Key words. Container terminal, container distribution stations, gantry crane, reachstacker, transshipping, containers sorting.
Annotation The article discusses the prospects of logistics of Chinese-Russian cross-border e-commerce. The importance of state regulation of online sales logistics is substantiated. There is a high need for the development of cooperation between China and Russia in order to improve transportation logistics, which affects the scale of cross-border electronic commerce. The current trends in the formation of demand for Chinese goods from Russian consumers are presented, the main routes and delivery conditions are demonstrated. The prospects for the implementation of new joint Russian-Chinese projects on the construction of highways and railways for logistics support of foreign trade are outlined.
Key words. Cross-border e-commerce, sales logistics, government regulation, express delivery, marketplace, product category, delivery route.
Annotation. Purpose of this article is to application of functional formula method for seeking of optimum integration mechanism variant in accordance with cooperation level of supply chain particitants. For solvation of this problem was used researching cooperation. Of manufacturing, transportation, trade enterprice, store’s operators inside different forms of cooperative activities was solved the multistep taskof distribution integration mechanism optimization. The result of this work is the recommendation for selecting of priority integration mechanism integration for step to step moving of supplying chain participants from minimum to more higher level of cooperation.
Key words. Integration mechanism, supplying chain participants, dynamic programming, functional formula, Bellman optymisation principal, cooperative planning, suppliers motivation, information integration.
Annotation. The article reflects problems associated with medication losing its properties when the temperature exceeds acceptance criteria. Main potential risk factors of the cold chain are analyzed. Options for their minimization by means of introducing new information technologies are proposed.
Key words. Immunobiological drugs, quality assurance, cold chain, risks, automated quality management system, e-learning, Internet of Things systems, blockchain technology, Artificial Intelligenсе.
Annotation. The article examines the impact of optimization of logistics chains on the competitiveness of an enterprise. Analyzing the multifaceted effects of logistics optimization, the author applies a modified view of resources integrated with the theory of dynamic capabilities, as well as a mixed method combining quantitative analysis of operational efficiency indicators with a qualitative assessment of strategic advantages.
Key words. Logistics optimization, competitive advantage, supply chain management, operational efficiency, market adaptability, dynamic capabilities, resource-based view, strategic management, business performance, innovation potential.
Annotation. The article discusses the relationship between the investment attractiveness of the regions of the Southern Federal District and the level of maturity of their logistics infrastructure. The results of the study showed that all subjects of the region can be divided into three groups according to the quantitative value of the calculated coefficients. The relationship between the studied indicators can be presented in the form of a linear relationship with a determination coefficient of more than 0.893.
Key words. Logistics infrastructure of the region, investment attractiveness of the region.
Annotation. The article presents a set of problems of application of agent-based modeling in customs affairs. The thesis about advantages of agent-based modeling as a forecasting tool in comparison with other tools is substantiated. This statement is reasonably confirmed by scientific publications of foreign and Russian scientists, including publications of the author. The main advantage of agent-based modeling is determined by its adaptability to the dynamics of the external environment. The main problems of application of agent-based modeling in customs affairs, the author refers to – sufficiency of data volume, data detailing and dynamics of regulatory control.
Key words. Customs, agent-based modeling, economic forecasting.