Title: Integrated method of analysing logistics costs in supply chain

Authors: Valery Sergeyevich Lukinskiy; Lukinskiy Vladislav Valeryevich; Daria Alexandrovna Zamaletdinova

Addresses: National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), 16 Soyuza Pechatnikov ulitsa, St., Petersburg, 190008, Russia ' National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), 16 Soyuza Pechatnikov ulitsa, St., Petersburg, 190008, Russia ' National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), 16 Soyuza Pechatnikov ulitsa, St., Petersburg, 190008, Russia

Abstract: Logistics and supply chain management (SCM) is in its development process, progressing stage after stage. The development process at the very first stage considers an evaluation criterion for evaluating effectiveness using minimum total logistics costs (TLC), which underlines the fact that, an important criterion in the development process is complete customers' satisfaction in services, or the 'level of service' (SL). At the same time, the question remains open as to how to quantify the impact of logistics operations and functions on the performance results of TLC and SL. The main aim of this paper is to develop a methodical approach and to come up with a computational approach to assessing the impact of different logistics operations factors (for example, transportation, storage, orders, etc.), on TLC and SL.

Keywords: total logistics costs; cost modelling; economic analysis; integral method; supply chain management; SCM; supply chain efficiency; service levels.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSCIM.2015.071934

International Journal of Supply Chain and Inventory Management, 2015 Vol.1 No.1, pp.48 - 61

Received: 04 Feb 2014
Accepted: 24 Sep 2014
Published online: 24 Sep 2015 *

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