Assessment of Management Efficiency of Business Entities’ Logistics Activities in Territorial Communities

The paper reveals approaches to the essence of management of business entities' logistics activities in territorial communities as a type of production and commercial (economic) activity, as a human factor, and as an element of scientific and educational activity. It has been determined the content of management of business entities' logistics activities in territorial communities through such management functions as goal setting, planning, organization, decision-making, regulation (operational influence), motivation, and control. It has been substantiated the essence of the main principles of management of business entities' logistics activities in territorial communities as follows: the principle of combining centralization and decentralization, the principle of division of labour, the principle of subordination of individual interests to the general ones, the principle of employees' material stimulation, and the principle of satisfying employees' personal interests. It has been outlined the basic characteristics of assessment of the management efficiency of business entities' logistics activities in territorial communities as follows: the product (commodity) needed by the customer, product delivery time, distance of transportation of products, labour (labour costs) for product delivery, energy (energy costs) used to product delivery, logistic costs in the value sense, and information necessary for logistics activities management. The management efficiency of business entities' logistics activities in territorial communities has been presented in the form of functional dependence of the corresponding basic characteristics. It has been substantiated the matrix of relative indicators for assessment of the management efficiency of business entities' logistics activities.