The increased complexity of globalised supply chain processes leaded to the development of new technologies, methods and tools to improve the enterprise systems. These novel tools (six sigma quality, employee involvement, factory automation, design for manufacturability, lean philosophy etc.)...

In present days, the waste management, especially municipal waste, becomes more important than before. Together with the economy development, higher numbers of products offered and bigger customer’s demand, the level of waste generated by humans are getting higher as well. Non-used waste are...

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the need for utilization of modern IT technologies in logistics enterprises in Poland. Activity of logistics enterprises would be impossible if information technologies were not used to support, among other things, flow of information between the...

Material flow systems have in generally very complex structure and relations. During design, building and operation of complex systems there are many different problems. This paper shows some usable solution for the design and selection process of material flow systems. We give a short overview...

The implementation of logistic outsourcing in management strategies gives chance SME to transfer particular business activities to more specialized outsourcing providers. In this article, the author presents results of research on outsourcing role in management strategies in small and...

Forwarding and transport planner firms are facing with a new challenge by the change of the road toll payment in Hungary. In this article authors give a brief review firstly about the current road toll system, than the new system to be introduced with the possible payment methods. Their...

Automated guided vehicles’ application in production facilities increases continuously. As these vehicles count as the industrialized version of mobile robots, the later ones can be regarded as the future of industrial AGVs. One of the most important issue of mobile robots is sensors....

RBusiness stability of the logistics centres in the twenty first century highly depends on the kind and quality of intangible resources. As the variety of services outsourced to logistics and distribution centres increase, success strategies for these companies should be revised. This study...

Quick and greatly aggravating the natural environment for development of transport taking place in recent decades, and occurring at the turn of the century imbalance in the field of human activity gave rise to the concept of sustainable development relate also to the forms and methods of...

Discovering market baskets is an attractive topic of data mining theory. In most studies the researchers considered the purchases or the transactions of the customers as a set of items. In other words, the transactions are analysed on conceptual level. In some recent studies quantitative...