MANAGEMENT OF COMPETITIVENESS OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN IN THE LOGISTICAL SYSTEMS OF A SMALL AGRARIAN BUSINESS

Abstract

Under contemporary conditions, the development of the integrated approach features to the logistics management in the supply chain is crucial. Considering that fact, the development of methodical approaches toward grounding managerial decisions in the logistics systems of agrarian enterprises is essential. A small-scale sector of the agrarian enterprise plays an important role. In the article, the features of managing agricultural supply chain based on the logistical approach have been represented. The purpose of the research is to develop the system of the logistics management over the supply chain and development of the measures of its improvement under the conditions of the business activity in small-scale agricultural enterprises. The methods of the research: monography, calculating-constructive, economic-statistical, graphic, linear programming, grouping, comparison, correlation-regressive analysis, ABC-XYZ-analysis, time-study and so on. The theoretical-methodological means of the logistics management within the agribusiness have been developed. The peculiarities of the logistics system of management over the supply chain in a small-scale sector of the agrarian production have been generalized. Further development of applying the existing knowledge of the optimal management over the supply chain in new objects of the logistics management of a typical small-scale enterprise in the agrarian sector of the economy has been studied. The model of integrative application of the logistics concept LP, the system of satellite navigation, procedure of management based on ABC-XYZ-analysis, methodical approach toward selection of the logistics strategy of cooperation with consumers and methods of optimizing the system of distribution logistics have been suggested. The development of the strategy of the supply chain at enterprises of small-scale agrarian businesses should be based on integration and cooperation; it will make possible to receive a set of possibilities and advantages for processing and selling the produce. This measure will promote the integration of the members of the cooperative with the interests of other links in the producing-logistics chain and lead to decreased compatibility at agricultural enterprises. The essence of the obtained results could be considered in the development of the possibilities of the integrated management over the supply chain based on the principles of logistics in small agricultural enterprises. The developed recommendations might be used in the logistics activity of farming enterprises.