Material-technical Supply Research Articles

СПЕЦИФІКА МАРКЕТИНГОВОЇ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ОКРЕМИХ СУБ’ЄКТІВ АГРАРНОГО РИНКУ В УМОВАХ КОНКУРЕНЦІЇ

Today, agrarian marketing is a rapidly developing field. Marketing tools are actively used in managing production and sales processes of agricultural production enterprises. However, the theory of agrarian marketing itself is still in its formative stage and contains numerous unresolved issues. Addressing these questions is essential for creating a comprehensive understanding of agrarian marketing and for enabling its most effective application. Questions arise even at the initial stage of understanding the essence and content of agrimarketing, specifically in its conceptual framework. The purpose of this article is to examine the specifics of marketing activities of individual agrarian market actors under competitive conditions, as well as to determine the role of the agricultural machinery production and material-technical supply sectors within the agrarian marketing system. Additionally, it seeks to justify the necessity of recognizing this sector as an important component of agrarian marketing. The subject of this research is the conceptual framework of agrarian marketing and the specifics of marketing activities of individual agrarian market actors under competition. Research Methods: The study utilizes comparative analysis, detailing and generalization, comparison methods, systematization, analysis, and synthesis. The main hypothesis of the research assumes that recognizing the agricultural machinery production sector as a component of agrarian marketing, along with agricultural machinery and equipment manufacturers as subjects of agrarian marketing, will lead to qualitative changes in the development of marketing programs for agricultural producers. Presentation of the Main Material. The theory of agrarian marketing continues to evolve, and one of the critical questions concerning its conceptual framework is identifying the components and subjects of agrarian marketing. It has been established that the basic approach considers the agricultural production and processing sectors as primary components. The material-technical supply sector, traditionally including the provision of mineral fertilizers, crop protection products, veterinary services, transport and warehousing, material-technical support, and other infrastructural components, is also recognized as a component. The question remains open regarding agricultural machinery manufacturing enterprises: are they subjects of agrarian marketing, and can they be regarded as components of this type of marketing? This theoretical question has practical significance. The clear understanding of roles in the agrarian market and the impact of infrastructure enterprises on the overall outcome is crucial for the formation of marketing programs for agricultural producers, especially under competitive conditions, where it is vitally important. In various respects, the marketing activities of agricultural machinery manufacturers can be characterized as following an industrial marketing concept. However, the author believes that it is crucial to analyze the level of influence of specific agrarian marketing features on the activities of agricultural machinery manufacturers in this context. It has been identified that these enterprises are subject to the same factors and conditions that affect agricultural producers and must consider them in their operations. Consequently, all marketing decisions of agricultural machinery manufacturers align with the marketing activities of agrarians. Moreover, the future development of agricultural machinery manufacturing entirely depends on the marketing and managerial decisions of agriproducers as the primary customers. It is essential to understand that agricultural machinery manufacturers actively impact the agrarian market and agricultural production. By offering new machines and equipment, they encourage agrarians to adopt innovations, implement new work methods, and introduce new crops. In turn, agrarians stimulate the development of new machines and equipment with their demands and establish standards and requirements for quality, productivity, and reliability. This collaboration is complementary and mutually beneficial, making it the most effective approach. Therefore, the theoretical resolution to recognize agricultural machinery, spare parts, and consumables manufacturers as active and essential subjects of agrarian marketing should transition into a practical dimension: agrarians and processing enterprises should include agricultural machinery manufacturers and agricultural supply enterprises in their marketing monitoring system. They should actively follow the latest developments in the agricultural machinery and equipment market and influence this market by creating demands for new machinery and technologies.

Assessment of contribution of human factor and factors of material-technical supply to safety risks due to poor repair and technology

The paper discusses the method of assessment and analysis of functional risks within the infrastructure of the railway transport network. The basis of the method is laid down in [1-4], but the risk assessment subsystem was not described due to poor repair. This paper will try to fill this gap. A general diagram of traffic safety risks by factors was developed. The method of transforming the probability function of repair rules violation into the probability of traffic safety violation due to some repair is proposed. For this purpose, the problem of minimizing the disparity in non-linear equations determining scaled factors of traffic safety violation (TSV) due to re-pair is solved. The calculation results at the level of linear enterprise are presented.

ON IMPROVEMENT OF PLANNING OF STOCKS OF MATERIAL AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES

For the English abstract and full text of the article please see the attached PDF-File (English version follows Russian version).ABSTRACT The relevance of the article is justified by the need for in-depth theoretical and applied research related to creation of an integrated system for planning and controlling of resources, improvement of the material and technical supply of railway enterprises. The object and area of research is the subsystem of material-technical supply at the operating domain of Kuibyshev Railway in the system of economic management of JSC Russian Railways. At the same time, the improved methodology for calculating the standard of production stocks is demonstrated, which excludes unreasonable decentralized purchases, reduces maintenance of inventories, operational costs of accompanying supplies of material assets, as well as operational, depreciation and tax expenses of the regional departments of Samara Directorate of Material-Technical Supply. Keywords: railway, material and technical supply, planning, methodology for calculating the standard of production stocks, intra-industry reserves, spending limits, economic efficiency.

The Main Directions of Reallocation of Industrial Enterprises Manufacturing Resources

In the current context optimizing manufacturing resources is one of the factors increasing the performance of enterprises. Along with the question of optimizing the level of aggregate inventory in the system of material technical supply the problem of allocating it in the commodity distribution network from suppliers to consumers is of great importance. The latter one is closely related to the planning of direct long-term relationships that contribute to the concentration of material flow in the production system, which, on the one hand, leads to decreasing the levels of over-norm and inoperative resources, and, on the other hand, leads to reducing the deficit of inventory. To optimize the allocation of inventory in the commodity distribution network our paper suggests some directions of redistributing the manufacturing inventory of industrial enterprises. The meso-level system of redistributing manufacturing inventories makes it possible to manipulate them in connection with the appearance of over-norm inventories or resources shortage. At the level of enterprises (group of companies) the system of inventory redistribution is designed to control material flow from suppliers of material resources to the end consumer. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n6p369

The Economic Mechanism of Scientific-Technical Progress under Market Conditions

In recent decades progress [STP] in capitalist countries with a developed market economy has been characterized by an unprecedented rate of acceleration (which has also occasioned the use of the term scientific-technical revolution in reference to this period). It is possible to single out a number of directions of STP that increasingly determine the development of the productive forces, particularly in the near future. First place is undoubtedly occupied by the rapidly forming information-processing industry as well as automation based on improving computers, the mass diffusion of microelectronics, and the increasing use of robots. This line of development, which is frequently called the electronic revolution, is leading to a fundamental change in the entire production base of capitalist entrepreneurship starting with material-technical supply and including the management process in addition to various production functions. All this is manifested in the rapid...

The Program of Radical Restructuring

In the last two years, the nation has made a major effort to develop an integrated system of economic management. The June 1987 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee played a special part of its own in this effort. Its proceedings and conclusions were in the nature of a program. It addressed key issues relating to the restructuring of all economic life and the radical reform of the economic mechanism. It is important to emphasize the democratic nature of the leadup to the plenum. The Law on the State Enterprise was drafted with the participation of enterprise managers and scientists. The law was the subject of public discussion, and a special commission examined the 180,000 supplements and amendments that were received. In sum, the draft law was substantially reworked and developed. It became the basis for drafts of eleven decrees on the restructuring of planning, pricing, financing, material-technical supply, on the work of banks and agencies responsible for labor and social problems, on the State Committ...

The Program of Radical Restructuring

In the last two years, the nation has made a major effort to develop an integrated system of economic management. The June 1987 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee played a special part of its own in this effort. Its proceedings and conclusions were in the nature of a program. It addressed key issues relating to the restructuring of all economic life and the radical reform of the economic mechanism. It is important to emphasize the democratic nature of the leadup to the plenum. The Law on the State Enterprise was drafted with the participation of enterprise managers and scientists. The law was the subject of public discussion, and a special commission examined the 180,000 supplements and amendments that were received. In sum, the draft law was substantially reworked and developed. It became the basis for drafts of eleven decrees on the restructuring of planning, pricing, financing, material-technical supply, on the work of banks and agencies responsible for labor and social problems, on the State Committee for Science and Technology, branch ministries, republic and local agencies, and the apparatus of the USSR Council of Ministers. The Central Committee plenum also issued, in the form of a summary document, the "Guidelines for the Wholesale Restructuring of Economic Management." This summarized and approved the experience of the initial steps of restructuring. Here, problems of economic management were viewed against the background of the general process of the renewal of social life. All this contributed to the critical importance of the June Plenum for the life of the nation.

Price and the Quality of Machinery

As M. S. Gorbachev noted at the Twenty-seventh Congress of the CPSU, the acceleration of scientific-technological progress is impossible today without high quality. The Congress set out directions for the restructuring of the economic mechanism that include the transition to economic methods of management at all levels of the national economy. The restructuring of material-technical supply, improvement of the pricing, financing, and credit system, and the development of effective anti-cost stimuli are planned in this regard. Prices occupy an important place in the broad utilization of economic methods of management.

The Social Division of Labor and the Infrastructure

Existing classifications assign branches of the infrastructure to material production in addition to industry, agriculture, the construction industry, etc. What condition makes it possible to single out and combine transport, communications, and material-technical supply in a common category of the infrastructure? It is their common functional features in the national economy.

The Social Division of Labor and the Infrastructure

Existing classifications assign branches of the infrastructure to material production in addition to industry, agriculture, the construction industry, etc. What condition makes it possible to single out and combine transport, communications, and material-technical supply in a common category of the infrastructure ? It is their common functional features in the national economy.

Lecture 9: The Material-Technical Supply Plan

material-technical supply in the national economy is the supply of producer goods to the various sectors of the national economy, which is a necessary condition for achieving expanded output. Here material refers to raw materials, processed materials, fuels, and electric power. Technical refers to machinery and equipment. Regardless of the type of economy, the expansion of output requires the consumption of a certain amount of means of labor (namely, machines and equipment) and objects of labor (namely, raw and processed materials, fuels, and electric power). Marx said, The act of production itself, in all its factors, is also an act of consumption.1 Therefore, in order to expand output, we must supply a corresponding amount of producer goods. However, in capitalist society, because producer goods are privately owned by the capitalists, production is chaotic. producer goods needed by enterprises are supplied through market transactions in an unplanned way. Only in socialist society and in the tr...

Lecture 13: Material-Technical Supply Planning Tables

Material-technical supply is the supply of materials and equipment. t The material-technical supply plan is a component of the whole national economic plan. Because there are many, many kinds of social products, we cannot include all of them in the material-technical supply plan. However, producer goods of major importance to the national economy must be included in order to achieve planned distribution, that is, unified distribution. The task of material-technical supply planning is to continuously and adequately supply each sector of the national economy with the necessary producer goods (namely, raw materials, processed materials, fuels, power, equipment and tools, and so forth) on a planned basis and guarantee the continuous and steady operation of all enterprises and construction units in order to fulfill and overfulfill the production plan and the capital construction plan, increase product quality, mobilize internal potential, and accelerate the turnover of working capital. The material-technical supply plan must be closely coordinated with the production plan, the capital construction plan, the import-export plan, the marketing plan, and the plan for state reserves.

The Price Mechanism and Circulation of the Means of Production

The Directives of the Twenty-Fourth Congress of the CPSU on the Five-Year Plan for the Development of the USSR National Economy for 1971-1975 indicate the need to further improve the nationwide system of material-technical supply and wholesale prices on industrial products.

Prices and Planned Economic Regulation of Agricultural Production

The economic policy of the Communist Party and Soviet government in the field of agriculture is aimed at stimulating greater output in every way, at further developing relationships based on economic accountability, and at increasing the effectiveness of social production. Review of the system of purchase and sales prices on agricultural products, as well as of wholesale prices on industrial goods used in the village, in the direction of a more equivalent exchange; improvements in the financing and extension of credit to state and collective farms; improvements in the system of planning and material-technical supply; introduction of a guaranteed wage for collective farmers; and other measures—all have served as the basis for economic transformations that constitute the essence of the economic reform.

Improvement of Material-Technical Supply and The Struggle With Sectionalist Tendencies

The new procedure of planning opens great possibilities for local initiative in the preparation of plans, mobilization of inner resources and utilization of the experience of the best concerns. In the plans for material-technical supply the balances will be given for 700 to 800 important materials, equipment, consumption goods, etc. The USSR State Planning Commission will prepare an annual plan for inter-republican deliveries of a limited number of products in short supply and for goods which are widely needed but are produced only in a few union republics. Production of all other goods, including those of local importance, will be planned by republics (3,000 to 3,200 kinds of products). Supplies of local importance will be planned by economic councils.