Genesis of the Concept «Logistic Activity of the Enterprise»

Current changes in the economic and social environment of enterprises, characterized by high pace and unpredictability, raise the issue of improving the efficiency of the organization of economic activity of the enterprise, in particular logistics. The versatility of the concept and the relationship of individual components necessitate consideration of the genesis of the term “logistics activities” as the evolutionary development and formation of the category and its key aspects; the relationship between the definitions of “logistics” and “logistics activities” in the context of the activity at the enterprise level. The existing theoretical approaches to the definition of the concept of “logistics activity” are analyzed and generalized, which are conditionally systematized into the following groups: direction of economic activity; a set of systematic practical actions; a set of functional, managerial, supporting processes and operations; unified technological process, movement of values; the only integrated function of goal realization. On this basis, the essence and content of the category “logistics activities of the enterprise”, which means the totality of all processes (namely the processes of ensuring continuous, timely, optimal and cost-effective movement of logistics flows at all stages of the production process according to forecasts and strategic plans) in a single complex, which must meet the principles of integration, innovation, adaptability to changing conditions of modern institutional and market environment.