SPbGASU Researchers Discussed Current Issues of Logistics

20th International Conference “Logistics: Current Development Trends” brought together scientists and specialists developing the scientific foundations of managing logistics processes and supply chains. On April 8, the event was hosted by the Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping. On April 9, it was continued in a remote format.

The focus of the conference was on digitalization of logistics, as well as problems and solutions in the context of the crisis caused by COVID-19.

The presentation made by Sergey Barykin and Irina Kapustina, Doctors of Economics, and Sergey Sergeev, PhD, representing Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, was devoted to the development of a model of digital processes in logistics networks. According to the authors, developing such a model makes it possible to create tools for the integrated flow management of material, financial and information resources interacting with each other on the basis of digital technologies.

Andrey Bochkarev, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Department of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Higher School of Economics (HSE National Research University), together with Tatyana Savenkova, a Bachelor’s student, addressed the tasks of dynamic and stochastic programming in logistics and solutions offered using MATLAB environment. The authors consider MATLAB to be one of the best learning environments for its unique capabilities. Using MATLAB and its Toolbox extension, you can explore a wide range of problems: matrix analysis, signal and image processing, mathematical physics problems, optimization problems, financial tasks, and much more. In addition, MATLAB has good capabilities for graphical visualization of 2D and 3D data.

Associate Professor of the Department of Customs at St. Petersburg State University of Economics Irina Plastunyak, PhD, examined logistics costs and formation of transit logistics chains in the Eurasian Economic Union. The author noted that present-day supply chains are characterized by changes in configuration, lengthening through involving countries with cheaper resources, and the use of modern technologies, including telecommunications and IT.

Natalia Pletneva, Doctor of Economics, Head of the SPbGASU Department of Management in Construction, jointly with the SPbGASU student Angelina Masko, prepared a report on logistics problems in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors examined the cause and effect chain of events and consequences that have arisen both in the transport and logistics sector, and in the field of ensuring the reliability of supply chains, identified the most important directions for the development of logistics in crisis periods.

The trends of logistics development in the field of e-commerce were investigated by SPbGASU student Konstantin Bobylev together with Associate Professor of the SPbGASU Department of Management in Construction Ekaterina Noskova, PhD. The researchers believe that 2020 has posed new challenges to all sectors of the economy and humanity as a whole. The popularity of e-commerce sites has grown, and now online consumption is a common trend not only in the consumer goods industry, but also in the corporate procurement market and long-term investments. The main task of logistics development in the e-commerce sector is creating new sales channels and improvement of infrastructure, the use of platform solutions in order to deliver goods to the buyer as quickly as possible.

Text: Tatyana Petrova

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