Xenie Lukoszová

Using the Tools of Logistics in Terms of Globalization

The content of this contribution is aimed at presenting the characters and the tendency of logistics management in terms of globalization. The contents involved in this paper regard the mutually coherent approaches and methods that are suitable for logistics firms’ management, such as Supply Chain Management, Just in Time, Kanban, The outsourcing and IT support of the logistic processes, their advantages and disadvantages with regard to their usefulness in logistics management in a company, as well as the rationalization of these logistical processes are needed to search for the optimization. They will also ensure their effective interaction with other business processes within an enterprise logistics system. The authors have also discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the application tools of logistics in the global market.