With the choice of the proper packaging of the product to be transported our objective is to keep the products safe and whole. Furthermore, besides supporting marketing goals other objectives are the reduction of stocks deriving from logistical costs and lead time, avoiding losses deriving from...

Basically the present and continuous paradigm shift in the European economic analysis stood in the background of our choice of topic. In an economy where the distribution of work has been getting a bigger and bigger role, the optimal supply for companies and markets is crucial from the...

The globalisation of the economy, which can be described by the reduction of transportation, communication and management costs, has changed the structure of logistics processes including purchasing, production, distribution and recycling. Production companies try to optimise their supply chain...

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.)...

The improvement of supply chain systems leaded to the application of different inventory strategies. One of the most flexible inventory strategy is the just in time based just-in-sequence inventory strategy, especially in the case of flexible assembly lines. Flexible assembly lines are used in...

A well-functioning logistics system for referral to the evolution of the enterprise contributes three main components, the development of which determines the development of the enterprise: management of the flows that are necessary in order to intensify trade in the market, management...

The optimal design or reengineering of supply chains using intermodal transportation is a very important part of the cost effective logistics system. Within the frame of this paper the author focuses on the optimal design of intermodal transportation problems. The first part of the paper shows...

It is a generally accepted practice in the natural gas industry the approximation that the temperature of the flowing gas along the length of the pipeline is constant. Experimental investigations obtain the decrease of the temperature in the direction of the flow resulted by the heat transfer...

The study describes the simulation testing conducted in connection with the expansion of the department of Audi Hungaria Motor Ltd. for manufacturing small-scale bodyworks, during which the future operation of an extremely complex manufacturing system was modelled. The reason for demand of...

In this paper is introduced a virtual logistics enterprise’s conception which support the examination of outsourcing in the case of finished goods warehouse. The paper is defined the outsourcing’s alternatives of the possibility examinations regarding the finished goods storage. There is...