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Improvement of materials management involves a search for such forms of activity that would ensure a proper organization of the procurement system for institutions and work places at the lowest costs. That is possible owing to application of the analytical procedure based on the cycle- analysie-diagnosls-designing, introduction, control. The author analyzes each of these stages in relation to a chosen subsystem of an enterprise such as materials management, its organisation and administration. The article is richly illustrated by scheme and descriptions of analytical and designing procedures in relation to 3uch spheres as: utilization, purchase, storage and transport of materials. Finally, the author presents an algorithm concerning improvement of administration оГ materials management and describes applied techniques of procedure.