Supply chains network management

Abstract

Background. Supply Chain Management is one of the most promising areas of the specialist in logistics, trade and management as a whole, since it has the ability to overcome barriers between enterprises, further integration of material and information management systems in order to achieve the highest results of enterprise economic activity and optimize customer service costs. The unresolved issue in research remains the formation of the supply chains network structure and optimization of the enterprise resources cost to manage this structure.
The aim of the article is to develop a methodological approach to establishing the criterion of importance of connections in the supply chains and to determine the value of the value of suppliers and consumers of the enterprise, taking into account further cooperation in the supply chain.
Materials and methods. The theoretical and methodological background was the work of domestic and foreign scientists on the management of supply chains, the structure and links between enterprises in the supply chains and approaches to assess the importance of these links for the enterprise.
Results. Information management and monitoring systems for supply chains is a connecting element that allows for the integration and harmonization of business processes, providing the necessary timely and relevant supply chain management components, and developing information exchange in the network structure of the supply chain. As a criterion for the importance of communication in the supply chain, it is proposed to set the Customer Lifetime Value, which characterizes the long-term economic effect of cooperating with the counterparty in the supply chain. Segmentation of connections can be done using fuzzy logic tools.
Conclusion. Managing the network structure of supply chains involves the creationof an extensive system of diverse connections between the focal point and the partners in the supply chain. The choice of a strategy for interaction between the enterprise and logistics partners should be carried out according to the proposed criterion of the importance of communication, reflecting the long-term economic effect of the integration and cooperation of enterprises.