WAREHOUSES AND CARGO TERMINALS IN SUPPLY CHAINS

Abstract

Warehouses and cargo terminals of transport sphere, which play an important role in the logistics of delivery systems, are considered within the context of the theory of warehouse systems. According to the theory, they are created in sites of the interactions between different areas of transport and production systems, various modes of transport and do not serve for storage of cargo alone, but rather are utilized for the conversion of cargo flows. Doing so allows responding the purpose of subsequent transportation and the usage of cargo in the most efficient way. Those storage facilities ensure the formation of the particular parameters of traffic flows that are tailored to the need of different markets, including goods, works, and services, in agreement with the principles of business logistics. The formalization of the of warehouse system functioning, provided the application of the graph or matrix of transition probabilities, is based on the main stages of analyzing or projecting a warehouse as a complex stochastic technical system that is presented in details.