
Dear readers! This is the fifth issue of the LOGISTICS journal, dedicated to the current challenges of modern logistics.
Dear readers! We present you a new issue of the magazine dedicated to current logistics issues.
Dear readers! We present you the third issue of the journal dedicated to current issues in the logistics industry.
Vladimir Stepanov, Ph.D.in economics, professor of business and logistics in Plekhanov Russian University of Economics addressed to the Readers. According to V.I. Stepanov, modern logistics is experiencing a global stage of development, which provides options for merging the logistics business entities in the territorial formations, requiring changes in the structure of such associations.
In this issue Vladimir Eskin devoted his article «Cross-functional Logistics Coordination» to the problems of the rationalization of organizational structures. In continuation of this theme in the article «On Some Aspects of the Problem of Creating a Regional Logistics Industrial Park» Yevgeny Makarov and Valery Shalin highlight the problems of specific logistics association in the form of creating rational logistics industrial parks on the territory of the Russian Federation. Vladimir Klepikov suggests specific practical solutions to urgent problems in the sphere of logistics. In particular, these solutions are: the calculation of the parameters of the cargo terminal as an example of the logistics center, it being justified by modern logistics approach to the integration of production and business activities in the territorial formations of different management levels.
The Readers of «LOGISTICS» are certain to have noted that the published articles on the theoretical and practical aspects of logistics activities in one way or another reflect the modern trends in both foreign and domestic logistics. In this context, the editorial board of the «LOGISTICS» journal invites all the participants of the creative logistics process ‒ theorists, practitioners, researchers, analysts, doctoral students, graduate students and students to write and send articles to our journal.