Development of the supply chain management concept under the conditions of global economic transformations

Abstract

The article covers the development of conceptual provisions for improving the supply chain management system in terms of ensuring the competitiveness of supply chains in the context of global economic transformations. It is emphasized that due to intensification of international division of labor, acceleration of scientific and technological progress and other dynamics of modern civilization, the scale, degree of association and interdependence of the development of productive forces are increasing. An increasing number of world economic structures are turning into open, and then sheer systems. In contrast to the closed systems typical of the industrial era, they reveal an objective tendency to transform into more complex infra-systems, which include, first of all, integrated logistics chains. It is in such logistics chains that the obstacles that separate the production and non-production areas of management in technological and economic relations vanish. This is due, on the one hand, to the unity of production and infrastructure flow processes, and on the other, to the revival of autonomy, mobility, flexibility of all elements and parts of such chains. The necessity of making adjustments to the classification aspects of the supply chain management concept is justified, as they are considered from the point of view of the object approach (i.e., the totality of organizations interacting in material and other flows from the source of raw materials to the final consumer), as well as in the context of process approach (i.e. systemic totality of flows and processes necessary to satisfy the requirements of consumers in goods and services). This creates the conditions for the formation of clearer classification approaches for the purposes of studying certain categories of supply chains (for example, by the number of levels of suppliers and consumers in the supply chain; by the type of products manufactured, etc.). The need for a clear demarcation of conceptual approaches in a traditional and integrated logistics concept is also confirmed. It is emphasized that the content of the latter consists in the implementation of the integrated coordination of the logistics chains and their links at the micro, meso and macro levels, both in material, information, financial, and other flows.