Logistics process management and logistics infrastructure

In the era of strong globalization, expressed by an expanded sales market and thus intensified competitive conditions, Polish enterprises should develop appropriate “techniques” for building manufacturing strategies, which, based on existing external constraints (production volume and product range) and internal constraints (resource and positional potential), should provide a lasting competitive advantage. Process management must be created and verified at every stage of its execution. The efficiency and quality of each process are determined by the quality and speed of information flow.The implementation of logistics processes takes place within a broadly understood logistics infrastructure – and it is this that is the fundamental element determining the possibilities of shaping value through action.
We can therefore speak of two components of logistics process optimization:
• assessment of logistics infrastructure;
• the way tasks are carried out within it; which will be analyzed in the further part of the article.
Process mapping
Process mapping consists of a graphical representation of how a process is implemented, including the individual activities performed in the process.
The mutual relationships between individual activities are also visualized graphically on the process map.
Continuing with E. Skrzypek and M. Hofman – process mapping gives an enterprise a number of benefits, the most important of which are4:
• a way of describing the process that is friendly to company employees, which allows for a much better understanding of how it is implemented, both for employees participating in the process and for people from outside the enterprise;
• the symbols used when constructing process maps are standard, thanks to which they are known in many countries, which greatly facilitates communication between different enterprises from different parts of the world; (…)

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