Assessing the State of Logistics and Ways to Improve the Logistics Management in the Corporate Sector of the Russian Economy
Assessing the State of Logistics and Ways to Improve the Logistics Management in the Corporate Sector of the Russian Economy

Summary/Abstract: The article analyzes the efficiency of the Russian logistics on the basis of data from foreign and Russian researches. The tendency of the annual decrease of the greatest part of indicators of the Russian logistics that are natural for a number of post-Soviet countries in the world rating has been revealed. There is an attempt to explain why domestic logistics lags behind the world leaders. The reasons include the crisis phenomena in the economy and its technological underrun as compared with the economy of foreign partners. The results of the sectoral analysis of the current state of domestic logistics are shown. This analysis has revealed the top priority tasks of Russian companies in the logistics area, as well as the dynamics of the main indicators of the logistics activity of Russian companies. General problems and prospects of developing logistics processes of Russian companies are defined. The introduction of innovative technologies and solutions in the logistics processes based on the automation and informatization of logistics operations has been recognized as one of the main directions of development. Stable tendencies in the development of logistics that have an impact on their efficiency are revealed. Recommendations for the sustainable development of the domestic logistics sector are given. Based on analyzing the results of the conducted audit of logistics systems of companies from various sectors of the Russian economy, low values of the efficiency index of logistic systems of the largest Russian industrial holdings are determined, and their main reasons - low level of the logistics management and unsatisfactory condition of the logistics infrastructure – are defined. Main problems in the logistics management of large industrial holdings are characterized, and the ways to solve them are offered.

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