The integration between production-logistics system and its task environment - chosen aspects

Abstract

Contemporary business activity is conducted under dynamic market circumstances whose effects are hard to pin down. The position of manufacturers in the supply chain is particularly difficult. Their business operations are performed in collaboration with many partners both on the procurement and the market side. It entails a high degree of uncertainty and changeability of the input data. Facing up to the reality and operating in such turbulent market compels the coordination mechanisms between production-logistics system and its task environment. At higher levels of cooperation coordination mechanisms naturally progress the mechanisms which integrate production-logistics system with its task environment. The Authors of this paper have developed their own multi-factor, 4-level model of integration between production-logistics system with its task environment. In a number of simulation experiments the Authors verified statistical relationships between the levels of integration and system’s performance.