E-LOGISTICS - ASPECTS OF FUNCTIONING

Abstract

In the background of changing situation on local and global markets of delivery and sales companies more often use the Internet tools, letting realization of electronic transactions with partners in supply chain. Changes in management of supply chain happen with development of clients' needs and technological possibilities of cooperating partners. Globalization of economic companies' cooperation (e.g. in delivery, production and distribution processes), technological growth and innovative manners of economic activity, as well as stronger competition and shorter products life cycles on markets have caused pressure on changes of dimensions of supply chains' acts-shorter time of order's realization, global scope of activity, bigger elasticity and durability. One of fundamental tool of supporting business processes became electronic data interchange through the Internet. It has caused epoch-making change for clients' values-independent access to information about products' flow and localization of supply chain's partners.