Logistics cost management is associated with certain specific challenges, since increasing the quality of logistics services for customers often comes with increased logistics costs. In addition, reducing the costs of one logistic component causes an increase in the costs of another logistic component, which results in higher total logistics costs. Various cost models have been developed to support the optimisation of logistics activities, which represent the main focus of research and a key practical tool for logistics management. The purpose of the study is therefore to determine whether current scientific studies are addressing the issues related to logistics cost management. The aim of the study is to determine the scope of the optimisation of individual logistics models from the point of view of how individual logistics costs categories and processes are treated. The analysis of logistics costs management issues provides an important empirical foundation for the improvement of logistic processes in supply chains and synthesises scientific literature in the field of logistics cost modelling, which represents an important framework for future empirical studies.
Original scientific paper A lack of understanding of logistics costs, particularly in terms of their integrity and interdependence, allows for the interests of individual departments within a company, which are not always in line with the common interests of the business process of the company, to take precedence over necessary logistics cost planning. In order to address this problem, we have developed a model that takes into account all the logistical costs within a company and represents an important decision-making tool that can be used by employees at different levels of the organization, covering different business functions. We have tested the model on a specific product in a company that operates in the automotive industry and determined that the model enables us to have greater control over logistics costs and improves the quality of information on logistics costs. Keywords: decision making; knowledge transfer; logistics cost; logistics cost models Model odlučivanja za kontrolu logističkih troškovaIzvorni znanstveni članak Nedostatno poznavanje logističkih troškova, posebice u pogledu njihove cjelovitosti i međusobne ovisnosti, vodi do toga da na štetu nužnog planiranja logističkih troškova prevagnu interesi pojedinačnih službi unutar poduzeća koji nisu u skladu s općim interesima poslovnog procesa poduzeća. Suočeni s tim problemom izradili smo model koji uzima u obzir sve logističke troškove u jednom poduzeću i koji predstavlja važno oruđe odlučivanja za zaposlenike svih razina i funkcija. Taj model smo testirali na specifičnom proizvodu jednog poduzeća iz automobilske industrije i ustanovili da nam on omogućava veću kontrolu nad logističkim troškovima i poboljšava kvalitetu informacija o logističkim troškovima.
The introduction of contemporary procedures to fleet management processes has recently changed the work planning and supervision of driver's work activities. Tendencies to control the implementation of driver's work have been present in modem professional practice for quite a long time; however, the equipment available on the market limited its implementation. The intensified development of digital tachographs has, in technical terms, ensured such equipment considerably before the legislative groundwork was prepared for its practical implementation. The Commission Regulation (EC) No. 561!2006 (implementation of Social legislation relating to Road Transport) does not bring any essential novelties in terms of permitted workload. Consistent monitoring of drivers activities, made possible by digital tachographs, will have impact on the existing working methods. The topic of the present paper is in deep analysis of the impact of the mentioned regulation with special emphasis on the conditions for the regulation of the current stage of drivers work and on the expected consequences. The essential im-p011ance lies on the expected change in the mentality and approach to planning the driver's activities in the transport process on the part of the ea n·ier: the outcome will eventually result in the efficiency of each individual canier. KEYWORDS fleet management, dliver's work planning, digital tachographs
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