THE FOOD INDUSTRY'S SUPPLY CHAIN'S EFFECTIVITY MANAGEMENT: SMALL MARKETS' CASE
THE FOOD INDUSTRY'S SUPPLY CHAIN'S EFFECTIVITY MANAGEMENT: SMALL MARKETS' CASE

Summary/Abstract: This paper is oriented to the small market's food industry. The main problem of the small market is that they often distribute partial cargo e.g. raw material. Therefore ineffective supply chain management may increase the final price of the product dramatically. The result of that would be lower competiveness level. The authors concluded that optimization in a small market's supply chain is possible only by using combination of different warehousing systems together with different transportation methods. This logistic systems computability stimulates the analyzation of clustering processes and can make a large impact to the logistic cluster formation in small markets. The developed methodology offers to combine sea, truck and railway transportation together with different types of warehouses. To empathize even more the optimization level it is recommended to conduct a mathematical simulation in order to properly evaluate the best combination of different transportation types and warehouses.

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