Sphere Of Supply Research Articles

Food Services in the Tourism Industry in Terms of Customer Service Management: The Case of Poland

The catering market in Poland, especially in such areas as the Old Town in Gdańsk, is constantly developing, and in recent years there has been a great development in gastronomic offerings; therefore, the potential in this sector is significant. The gastronomic services market in Gdańsk is subject to segmentation due to the diversity of consumer needs and the location of the outlets. New points are constantly appearing on the gastronomic map of this historical part of Tri-City, where every tourist, regardless of the adopted form of tourism, can satisfy his or her needs without any problems. The authors aimed to analyse the impact of catering services on the tourism industry. In particular, the study is an attempt to identify the functioning of the contemporary culinary market and the conditions for the development of catering services and to describe the forms of enterprises providing this service. The variety of aspects of the research subject matter, oscillating around the main objective, made it necessary to formulate the following research hypotheses: first hypothesis (H1)—catering services influence the management of the tourism industry; second hypothesis (H2)—the tourist is the main determinant shaping demand; third hypothesis (H3)—the tourist contributes to benefits in the sphere of supply. The research tool was two structured, short survey questionnaires used to verify the hypothesis. The survey was conducted during the summer of 2018. The survey involved 20 restaurateurs from the Old Town in Gdańsk and 438 random tourists over 15 years old. The survey of tourists can be characterised as randomised focus groups. The questionnaire addressed to owners of catering establishments was a representative survey. The implication of research carried out among representatives of the tourism segment is the development of a foodservice market based on a marketing strategy that takes into account the specific needs of consumers and the constant monitoring of market behaviour in order to keep up with the changes that occur in it.

О. О. Черненко, Т. О. Парфьонова, Д. М. Ольховський, О. В. Ольховська, Ю. Ф. Олексійчук ЗАДАЧА ОПТИМАЛЬНОГО ВИБОРУ МІСЦЯ ПІД БУДІВНИЦТВО ПРОМИСЛОВИХ ОБ’ЄКТІВ

The purpose of the article is to analyze the latest research and publications on the quality management of the natural environment. It reveals the previously unresolved problems and tasks of forecasting for the future. Research methodology. The task of optimal distribution of productive forces from the standpoint of minimization of costs for the environment under the normal operation of the object using the theory of programming methods and combinatorial optimization is proposed. Results. A mathematical model of this problem formed with a fractional-linear objective function, which is the ratio of total costs of the industrial sector of the region to the total income was created. It is explaining in detail and the formulas for calculation of each component of the function of the total costs of the industrial sector of the region are given. In particular, there are presented comparisons for costs in the sphere of supply; costs for production; costs in the sphere of distribution, costs for production system management. The function of total costs includes environmental costs, which form at the expense of current and capital environmental costs. Environmental and economic costs, as a constituent part of the total costs function, in the production sphere for a particular industrial unit, includes the following components: possible unrealized profit due to unplanned reduction in the volume of production; additional costs; costs associated with loss compensation and costs of various types of material resources. The mathematical model includes a combinatorial condition on the number of manufactured products of a particular type on a particular industrial facility, when the values of the variables are selected by the combinatorial multiplicity of dimensions. The model also contains line limitations on the total quantity of a particular type of production. Additional conditions are imposed on the coefficients that determine the share of material resources in the total material flow of transport and storage enterprises. Practical significance of research results. The model of the problem is selecting the area for the construction of industrial facilities to minimize losses to the natural environment at the level of the region, which takes into account the social and economic needs of its population and environmental safety, can be used in the planning and design.

Optimization and diversification of natural gas supply in Ukraine

This article considers different variants of natural gas supply in Ukraine which are based on the main tendencies of natural gas regional markets and some important factors, such as: possibility to use natural gas storage system, different changes in government regulation and innovations in the energy generation and supply sphere. The purpose of this work is to substantiate the current gas supply strategy in Ukraine on the basis of quantitative methods. The main results of the article are: Numerical estimation of the positive effect, gained from the using of natural gas storage system; Numerical estimation of the positive effect from the diversification of the natural gas supply in Ukraine in terms of decreasing the potential role of Gazprom monopoly. The population response evaluation on the gas price rising. This article provides an effective tool for assessing the possible consequences of decisions of state bodies when moving away from the existing monopoly of gas supply system and the macroeconomic effect of different gas supply options. The quantitative assessment of the gradual convergence of regional markets and the creation of a global natural gas market is proposed

Savremene tendencije razvoja međunarodnog turizma

Tourism is one of the most complex, most dynamic economic and socio spatial phenomena of the modern world, which has become a global phenomenon in a relatively short period of time (from the 1950s). This is best reflected in significant quantitative, qualitative, structural, spatial and other transformations both in the sphere of demand and in the sphere of supply. In the observed period, the volume of demand was constantly increasing, accompanied by the expansion of diverse motives and the needs of tourists for traveling, which led to the increasing heterogeneity and complexity of the emitting markets. At the same time, the supply market has been expanded so that almost every space on the earth has become available to modern tourists, even Antarctic.

Przepływy międzygałęziowe w sektorze rolno żywnościowym w Chinach

Celem artykułu było ocena przepływów międzygałęziowych w agrobiznesie w Chinach w latach 2000-2014. Przebadano wielkość i strukturę oraz udział wyników produkcyjnych i dochodowych agrobiznesu w tworzeniu gospodarki chińskiej, określono kierunki przepływów międzygałęziowych oraz strukturę zaopatrzenia materiałowego w agrobiznesie Państwa Środka. Obliczenia zostały wykonane na podstawie tabel przepływów międzygałęziowych stworzonych w ramach projektu World Input-Output Database (WIOD). Główną zastosowaną metodą badawczą była analiza nakładów i wyników. Z przeprowadzonej analizy wynika, że w latach 2000-2014 wartość produkcji globalnej całego sektora rolno-żywnościowego w Chinach wzrosła ponad 7,5-krotnie przede wszystkim za sprawą wzrostu w przemyśle spożywczym. Głównym źródłem przepływów materiałowych do rolnictwa jest sfera zaopatrzenia, z kolei do przemysłu spożywczego samo rolnictwo. Ponadto badanie wykazało, że chiński agrobiznes cechuje między innymi niska importochłonność.

The use of Multivariate Statistical Analysis Methods in the Process of Tangible Assets Assortment Optimization

Background/Objectives: Research objective - development of scientific, methodical provisions and practical recommendations about formation of rational system of stockpile management of enterprise with use of modern tools of multidimensional statistical analysis. Methods/Statistical Analysis: For the solution of this research problems was used the complex of multi-dimensional statistical methods: The cluster and dispersive analysis. Each of methods was applied adequately their functional opportunities that develop an author's methodology of group of material resources allowing to optimize costs of management of nomenclatures of resources. Findings: The article describes the approaches of choosing the multivariate statistical analysis methods allows to systematize the nomenclature and to optimize the enterprise physical resources assortment. The need to improve classification methods of reserves in an economic entity under the conditions of influence of great number of multidirectional internal and external environment factors is proved. This method of ranging of material stocks compared with traditional methods of optimization of the range of material stocks, are allows to construct more rational mechanism of management of economic re-sources at all stages of financial and economic activity. Application/Improvements: Results of research will be used in system of resource management in the sphere of supply, production and sale at various levels of flexible logistical systems.