The third issue of the journal in 2018 is devoted to transport logistics. It is the development of transport technologies that affects the acceleration or slowdown of the country's development. For Russia with its vast territories, transport logistics is of particular importance, and its problems solution requires both scientific and practical approaches.
We, in accordance with the tradition, release the first issue of 2018 on the eve of the XXI Moscow International Logistics Forum (MMLF), which is the most important meeting of industry professionals, where the results of the past year, the development plans for the near future, the practice of successful management of logistics by the companies from various industries, the development and implementation of new systems and technologies are discussed.
Dear readers! In 2017 "LOGISTICS" journal celebrated its 20th anniversary. Over the years the publication has become one of the most authoritative and respected in the industry. For many years, we have never deviated from our main rule ‒ to cover only pressing problems and the experience of the optimal organization of resource flows, combining both science and practice. We do our best to select effective practices and solutions for logisticians, and the 12th, the final issue of the journal, is no exception.
This paper focuses on the analysis of business structures of modern socio-cultural services as an open socio-economic system. Advantages of logistics management methods, which are especially clearly manifested in the organizations operating in the constant dynamism of supply and demand. With logistics solved the problem of optimization of linked business processes. Developing integrated logistics systems associated with the solution of complex organizational and technical problems of socio-cultural services.
Key words. Business structures, logistic-oriented management, socio-cultural services sphere of culture.