Digitalization as one of the directions of sustainable development of the integrated logistics system of the enterprise

Zinaida Khmelnitskaya,Elena Bogdanova,Maria Ivich,G Roos

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202129104012

Abstract

Because of the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection, the pace of digitalization and its impact on all sectors of the national economy have increased. The integrated logistics systems of the enterprises have also undergone significant changes. The article examines the main trends of recent times — digitalization and integration, which provide development potential, competitive advantages for the enterprises using the integrated logistics systems. The authors investigated the impact of the new coronavirus infection on the changes in the logistics systems of the enterprise; identified eight main directions of the changes, one of which has become the acceleration of the digitalization along the entire chain of the integrated logistics systems. Further, the authors identified six characteristic constituent elements of the digitalization as one of the directions of the sustainable development. They examined the interaction between the functionalities of the integrated logistics system and the characteristic components of the digitalization.

Highlights

Last year was very difficult and unpredictable in terms of the economic situation around the world
The authors investigated the impact of the new coronavirus infection on the changes in the logistics systems of the enterprise; identified eight main directions of the changes, one of which has become the acceleration of the digitalization along the entire chain of the integrated logistics systems
Taking into account the definition of the integrated logistics, it is legitimate to say that the process of managing all flows in the supply chains is implemented on the basis of the received information

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Introduction

Last year was very difficult and unpredictable in terms of the economic situation around the world. The situation with the pandemic of the new coronavirus infection has made adjustments in all areas of our planet life, including the economies of all countries in the world and the global and local markets of logistics services. Certain changes occurred in a number of directions, in particular: there were restrictions or delays in the transportation of goods between countries, supplies shortage, financial difficulties for logistics operators; because of this, the enterprises were forced to optimize their logistics systems taking into account the new reality [1,2]. This task becomes difficult to achieve without changes in the integrated logistics systems of the corporations

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