ОЦІНЮВАННЯ ЕФЕКТИВНОСТІ ТРАНСПОРТНОГО ПАРКУ ЛОГІСТИЧНОЇ КОМПАНІЇ

Abstract

The article is devoted to the conceptual issues of evaluation of the efficiency of the logistics company's transport park. The information base of the study is data of the real logistics network of one of the leading logistics companies in Dnipro, which has 42 branches. Based on the capabilities of the Google OR-Tools optimization package, a system of optimal transport routes for different fleet options has been built. According to the results of calculations, the transition from vehicles with higher capacity to lower capacity increases the number of passages and the length of the optimal route. Replacing the fleet of the largest load capacity (20 tons) with the smallest (1 ton) leads to considerable increasing of the optimal route’ length. Less capable vehicles are characterized by lower fuel consumption. But the results of calculating the total cost of implementing optimal routes proves that the transition from more capable to less capable vehicles is not effective. Indirect estimation of the efficiency of the combined fleet was built by gradually replacing of the minimum capacity vehicles in the fleet with the maximum capacity vehicles. For each such variant of the fleet, the optimal route was built, its length was recorded and fuel consumption was estimated. Estimation of fuel consumption was carried out by multiplying the length of mileage of large and small-capacity vehicles by the corresponding fuel consumption rates. Prospects for further research are to verify the results using alternative optimization tools. The results of the analysis indicate the effectiveness of building a transport fleet of logistics company based on heavy-duty vehicles. This approach reduces the number of pendulum routes and minimizes fuel consumption through the use of ring routes.