LOGISTICS AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEYELOPMENT

• Authors: Agnieszka SKOWROŃSKA
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Logistics is becoming morę and morę influential, not only in individual companies. Its direct and indirect impact on the economy is being discussed increasingly often in the literaturę [see Coyle et al., 2002, 58; Skowronek and Sarjusz-Wolski, 2003, 40-75]. The most important relations between logistics and the economy include [Witkowski, 2004, 55]: the influence of improvement in the performance of logistic processes in companies on improvements regarding specialisationand cooperation, leading to expansion of the market; the influence of the improved effectiveness of logistic services on conditions facilitating price reduction, due to the effects of economies of scalę and the shortening of delivery times; the influence of the location of public logistic centres on the level of availability of products manufactured in remote places, both in Poland and abroad; the influence of transport and warehousing infrastructure, shaped by the state, on the behaviour of potential industrial and commercial investors. Therefore, increasing attention is being paid to macroeconomic aspects of logistics and research concerning the relations between production, trade and transport. This field is seen as a starting point for the creation of a new nationał economic policy, called logistic policy. This covers the purposeful, direct and indirect influence of the state on improoements in the effectioeness of the processes of product flow and accompanying flow of information between the participants of supply chains [Witkowski, 2004, 56], A detailed discussion on the character, types and role of logistic policy in a system of economic policies can be found in Skowrońska [2006].

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Opolski, Wydział Ekonomiczny
• Journal: Economic and Environmental Studies
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 8
• Pages: 369-382

Dates

published

2020-12-15

Contributors

author

Agnieszka SKOWROŃSKA