Logistics systems constitute an essential structure of logistics management, understood as “the strategic and operational planning, control, organization, and implementation of the flow and placement of people, goods, information, and supporting activities within an organized system in order to meet customer requirements, taking into account economic, social, and environmental factors”.
Logistics management is subject to rapid changes in priorities, which increasingly deviate from established classical patterns of conduct. The economic difficulties that companies have encountered recently prompt deep reflection on established ways of perceiving logistics processes and widely accepted concepts of logistics management and supply chain management.
In such a situation, new ways of shaping the flow of goods are being sought in a manner that, due to the characteristic features of the actions taken by companies, does not lend itself to the verification of traditional assumptions of operational rationality.
This type of modification direction is the modification of the operating philosophy of classical supply chains and product distribution. For a number of years, more and more attention has been paid to such bold concepts as sustainable supply chain, corporate social responsibility in supply chains, socially responsible supply chain, or finally, socially responsible supply chain management. These concepts, similar or even identical in appearance, are, however, proof of the constant evolution of thought (…)
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Source: Logistyka Magazine 4/2012