The role of digital transformation to ensure innovative management system of business processes in the agrarian sphere under conditions of war and post-war recovery

Abstract

The development of the agricultural sector of Ukraine is an important task today, despite the military actions and their negative impact on the functioning of the national economy and its constituent sectors. The agricultural sphere of Ukraine remains in the status of the world's breadbasket, despite the blockade of seaports, large-scale destruction of agricultural machinery and infrastructure, and a temporary decrease in the volume of production of agricultural products. After all, the development of the agrarian sphere shapes the food and economic security of not only our country. This study aims to determine the role of digital transformations in ensuring an innovative system of managing business processes in the agricultural sector under the conditions of war and post-war recovery. The losses of Ukraine's agricultural economy due to the war's consequences in 2022 have been studied. It has been proven that in order to overcome crises in the agrarian sphere as a result of the war in Ukraine and to form an innovative system of managing business processes in the agrarian sphere, the development of the digital economy and digital transformations, which involve changes in the system of managing business processes based on integration, are essential digital tools and due to the review of strategic guidelines, mechanisms, and functioning models. The tasks of agricultural development, relevant business processes, and digital tools for achieving tasks are systematized. The chain of digital tracking of agro-food products is analyzed. It has been proven that digital transformations have a positive effect on the organization and conduct of agricultural business in Ukraine, change its marketing strategies and marketing activities, the structure of resource provision, reduce production costs and increase the efficiency of economic activity, simplify the methods of forming, transmitting, and storing reporting information. Russia's aggression against Ukraine created crisis conditions for the national economy and the agricultural sector. The number of indirect losses to the agriculture of Ukraine because of the war in 2022 is estimated at 23.3 billion US dollars. Despite the crisis conditions caused by the war, the agrarian sphere of Ukraine plays a vital role in ensuring national food and economic security, and the potential of its development preserves the status of Ukraine as a world granary. In order to restore the functioning of the agrarian sphere of Ukraine, it is necessary to continue the development of the vector of digitalization of the economy, which involves changes in the management system of business processes that take place based on the integration of digital tools and due to the revision of strategic guidelines, mechanisms and models of functioning. Accelerating the development of digital transformations in the management system of business processes in the agrarian sphere will also ensure the European integration guidelines of Ukraine in the context of forming common values regarding the quality and safety of agri-food products. Keywords: the agricultural sector, business processes, business process management, digital transformation, digital tools.