The significance of logistics in servicing growing volumes of e-commerce

Purpose: The article highlights the multi-task nature and prospects of the development of the transit potential of warehouse logistics systems, reveals the theoretical and methodological foundations of logistics in the storage and cargo handling system, indicates and confirms the importance of warehousing logistics in the context of servicing the growing volumes of electronic commerce. Design/Methodology/Approach: For the purposes of developing logistics in the storage and cargo handling system we study the technical and technological support and design developments that have significant potential for increasing the efficiency of logistics processes, and to study consumer behavior in the warehouse services market and transport market trends - warehouse activities. Findings: Automation significantly simplifies logistics processes, information exchange, remote control and management, optimizes costs by combining various market entities and objects, target groups and parameters of logistics processes on electronic platforms. Integration in modern logistics allows synchronizing the complex information component of electronic services and platforms and activating the formation of a system interface that is common for all elements of the logistics system of warehousing, cargo processing and inventory management. Practical implications: The results of the study can be implemented in the activities of Russian companies in order to develop the transit potential of warehouse logistics systems. Originality/value: The significance of this study lies in shifting the emphasis to the need to switch to improved customer service systems taking into account the needs and development of online retail and fulfillment of logistics operators (full-cycle operator: taking goods from the customer’s warehouse, responsible storage, packaging, delivery, work with returns), tied to the development of infrastructure, as the foundation for increasing the efficiency, speed and quality of logistics processes.peer-reviewe

A complex approach for the design, construction and organizational management of logistics storage and products processing centers

Purpose: The introduced article aims at elaborating effective solutions in terms of designing and constructing buildings and objects of a regional logistics center serviced by a 3-4 PL-level provider taking into account practical experience in the design, construction and maintenance of logistics storage and products processing terminals that have been built. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research of the principles of designing logistics centers substantiates the necessity of revealing and working on technological trends in the development of internal logistics along with research and development, infrastructural, planning restrictions, capacity, reserve options. Findings: The best available equipment with the unlimited wide set of features is insufficient; each of these features needs to be applied in the working process as a single supply chain of consecutive actions. Practical implications: The findings of this paper can be used in the practical activities of regional and federal logistics enterprises, by public and commercial entities, in the administrative activities of enterprises and organizations. Originality/value: This research bears its determining significance in its effectiveness of practical functioning of logistics centers.peer-reviewe