Application of project management methods in the Czech Republic

The paper aims to determine the level of application of project management methods in the Czech Republic. In the first part, selected project management methods based on an analysis of available information resources specifically regarding the Czech Republic are defined. The main theoretical background of the paper is based on documents issued by the International Project Management Association (IPMA) and the Project Management Institute (PMI). With the use of a questionnaire survey, the level of application of project management methods in organizations operating in the Czech Republic was assessed. The questionnaire survey was conducted in three stages, the first carried out in 2015, the second in 2016, and the final stage in 2017. Based on a comparison of the results of the individual analyses, it is possible to describe the development of the application of the project management methods over time. © 2018 The Authors, published by EDP Sciences.Tomas Bata University in Zlin [RO 21181002025

Risk management of the project and the use of software in SME

Today we live in a time when it is necessary to try to minimize risks to the lowest possible level of risk. There are several risks in the SMEs as the environmental, economic and others. We do not constantly manage to eliminate the risks. For risk management purposes, the use of project risk management using software is appropriate. Today, it offers a plethora of software that allows them to be used. Thanks to this software, work is simplified, and there is no human error. The aim of this article would be to analyze the risks in small and medium enterprises. For this purpose, Pareto analysis, Chi-squared test were used, and the most significant risks were evaluated. Furthermore, the methods used in risk management were assessed. In the conclusion of the paper, the results of the work were summarized, and recommendations for small and medium-sized enterprises in the field of project risk management were proposed. © 2020, World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society. All rights reserved

Sustainable purchasing systems based on demand forecasting - Supply chain sustainable growth a challenge nowadays

In consequence of growing international business volume and supply chain management importance, the purchasing as one company's functional part has gained strategic role to be successful in the current business markets. (Paulraj, Chen, & Flynn, 2006) Contemporary supply chains of particular industrial branches are getting, in consequence of business markets globalization, still more complex and material flows streaming in them are getting still more bulky. The bulky material flows in inner or in outer supply chains should be effectively planned, managed and controlled in context of long-term sustainable socio-economic development and living environment protection. Well, enterprise management systems - one of them is also purchasing management system; should be designed in the way to be possible to reach required level of stability and simultaneously to reach required level of flexibility

Approach to the risk management process in logistics companies

Larger companies have experts or even entire departments of experts to analyse potential risks, while for smaller companies and small businesses, the risk management process is difficult to understand. The aim of the article is to find out what approach companies in the Czech Republic in the logistics sector have to the risk management process. The article defined four research questions related to the size of the company and the amount of expenditure on the risk management process, the number of people involved in the risk management process, whether the risk management process is implemented by company employees or external staff, and whether the size of the logistics company affects the quantity and choice of crisis management methods. It was found that the larger the size of the company, the higher the company's expenditure on crisis management. The number of employees involved in the risk management process also corresponds to this finding, however, the size of the company does not affect the number of externals involved in the risk management process. The second position was occupied by the scenario planning method and the What-If Analysis method can be described as the third. © 2021 Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC. All rights reserved.Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně: IGA/FAME/2019/00

Purchasing logistics management

The purchasing of an industrial company or an organization of tertiary sphere is one of the functional management fields. The effective functioning of the purchasing systems is the important presumption to reach high level of the competitive advantage of the organizations. The foundation for the right managerial decisions at purchasing department should be the accurate forecasts of future demand or consumption. Through a design or an optimization of a logistics purchasing management system, it should be proceeded with the usage of system analysis and process management principles. The article deals with the issue of purchasing logistics management system design, when for the design purposes of these systems in an industry or a tertiary sphere, the general methodics has been created

Purchasing logistics management

The purchasing of an industrial company or an organization of tertiary sphere is one of the functional management fields. The effective functioning of the purchasing systems is the important presumption to reach high level of the competitive advantage of the organizations. The foundation for the right managerial decisions at purchasing department should be the accurate forecasts of future demand or consumption. Through a design or an optimization of a logistics purchasing management system, it should be proceeded with the usage of system analysis and process management principles. The article deals with the issue of purchasing logistics management system design, when for the design purposes of these systems in an industry or a tertiary sphere, the general methodics has been created

Human resources management in the corporate crisis

The paper is focused on the impact of the company crisis on personnel management. The main goal is to carry out a probe into the Czech medium to large companies and find out how personnel management works during the company's crisis. The research focuses on the importance of the human resources department in society and, of course, the impact of the crisis on human resources. The content of the paper will clarify the list of possible saving steps in the area of human resources management while the company is in crisis. Based on the research results, measures are introduced that cause minimal damage to the company's personnel strategy. © 2020 Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC. All rights reserved

Means of transporting counterfeits to the European Union

Online commerce, in particular, the development of electronic platforms, contributes to making counterfeit goods relatively easy to reach customers. Globally, counterfeit goods are on the rise, and intellectual property rights enforcement authorities publicly acknowledge that the quantity of goods seized is only a minimum of what gets to individual markets. The infringement of intellectual property rights is a significant problem, and due attention is also given to this issue in the European Union (EU) pays due attention to it (European Commission). This finding is also evidenced by a study on the production and trade of counterfeit goods, published by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), mapping the situation in the individual EU Member States. The main aim of the paper is to characterize and mapping of trends in the means of transporting counterfeits to EU countries between 2014-2018. The current trend of globalization and loosening in international trade gives criminal gangs the possibility of organized crime. These gangs make use of all available transport options (air, road, sea, postal, and others), and it is challenging to trace where counterfeit goods originate. The paper maps trends that occurred throughout the EU, whose market is affected by the transport of counterfeit goods. According to OECD and EUIPO reports, which assess, among other things, the rate of customs seizures of counterfeit goods, most counterfeits originate in East Asia (China, Hong Kong, India). The paper is divided into four main parts. The introduction section summarizes the results of a literature review of relevant studies (EC, OECD, EUIPO) and papers published in the SCOPUS and Web of Science databases. In the second part of the paper, attention is paid to the results of a comparison of the statistics from 2014-2018 published by the European Commission. The statistics are based on seizures of individual parts of the Community and are provided to the European Commission by the Customs Administrations of the Member States of the European Union. The paper examines the number of cases, articles, and retail value of transporting counterfeits to the EU by air, express, post, rail, road, and sea. To compare the statistics and the graph of transport trends to visualize the number of cases, articles, and retail value of counterfeits concerning means of transport. These trends are mapped in the discussion section. By comparing the statistics, one can get an idea of the current state of the EU market, and based on statistical analysis, are constructed trend graphs. In conclusion, the main problematic aspects of the transport of counterfeits to the European Union are formulated. It is outlined how the transportation of Intellectual Property infringing items is likely to continue. © 2020 Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC. All rights reserved

Export and exports risks of small and medium enterprises during the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19 has created an entirely new unknown environment with new risks. Various restrictive national measures seeking to protect health took precedence over economic measures. Moreover, a large number of businesses are entirely dependent on international trade and exports. The aim of this paper is to map and analyze the development of small and medium enterprises’ exports during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic. Moreover, it identifies the most significant export risks and their perception by small and medium enterprises. The chi-square test, Cramer’s coefficient, and exact binomial test were used to verify the statistical dependencies of research questions and hypotheses. Empirically, the statistically significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the decline in small and medium enterprises’ exports was confirmed. In connection with the effectiveness of risk management, it was found that less than 50% of enterprises in the research sample are not ISO 31000-certified. The study concluded that the most significant export risks confirmed by statistical testing were COVID-19 risks and payment morale of foreign trading partners. © Romana Heinzova, Eva Hoke, Tomas Urbanek, Pavel Taraba, 2023