Principles of quality and assortment management in the management of supplies of the industrial enterprise

Abstract

Introduction. Due to the coronavirus pandemic and related constraints, the resilience of industrial enterprises relies heavily on the ability of managers to ensure timely and uninterrupted supply. The enterprise's activity in the economic system forces us to interpret any business entity as an open system, the logistics subsystems of which form the “blood system” of the economy. In conditions of increasing risks and the spread of procurement violations, violated with insufficient competence or, in some cases, illegal behaviour of logistics managers, a topical issue is the characterization of crucial properties of supplies – their quality and assortment. Current scientific works fully disclose the peculiarities of supply management at an industrial enterprise. However, we believe that the development of domestic industrial enterprises in a crisis, the prospects for their entry into the international arena depend on the ability of management to achieve not only the overall quality of processes but also to manage quality and assortment in the supply chain. The purpose of the paper is to generalize the principles of quality management and assortment in the supply chain of an industrial enterprise. Results. In the paper we conducted a theoretical study of the features of supply management. We summarized the principles of quality management and assortment in the supply management of an industrial enterprise, which included validity, complexity and consistency, ethics and integrity, sustainable development. As part of the study, we briefly described the challenges and prospects facing logistics managers of industrial enterprises in implementing and maintaining a quality monitoring system and assortment of supplies. Conclusion. We emphasized some of the semantic properties of the concepts of assortment and quality as characteristics of the supply and finally outlined some quality and assortment management principles in the supply management of an industrial enterprise. Such principles include scientific validity, complexity and consistency, ethics and integrity, and sustainable development. A promising area of further research is to characterize the key competencies of logistics managers needed to ensure a transparent and uninterrupted supply process.