Historical and meritorical genesis of logistics
Historical and meritorical genesis of logistics

Summary/Abstract: +The aim of the article is to present the results of the research of the possibilities of explaining the content and evolution of logistics formation, determining periods of its development by examining its most important features. Based on the dialectical method of learning objective reality and using a historical approach the retrospective analysis was carried out and the historical and substantive genesis of the logistics category was examined, various interpretations of it have been identified in which the functional, optimization and target aspects are traced. The authors of the article define the concept of logistics as a branch of the theory of management, the subject of which is the study of forms and means of organizational-economic, structural-functional and institutional impact on the process of material and related information movement, financial and service flows from the primary source of raw materials to consumers of final products in order to optimize the specified process and realize the objective function of the logistics system, consisting in synergistic effect obtaining. The periodization of military and economic stages of logistics development on the basis of motivational features with substantiation of intuitive-philosophical, phase-applied and system-integrated periods of its formation is proposed.

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