| Abstract [eng] |
According Martin Christopher efficient supply and logistic system management was the main reason for winnining wars during the years. So it seems the importance of the supply chain management was known from early ages, but acknowledged not so long time ago. In our days we are entering into the supply chain era of competition. It means we need to establish value creating systems, which can react instantly to market changes and which are organised in order to warranty optimal operating of supply chain mangement. SCM becoming more and more important not over the world, but in Lithuania as well (especially after 1991y.), as understanding of it‘s significant impact to companies activities and results is beeing recognized. Nevertheless supply chain management in Lithuania is not recognised as one of most important ones. In the order of companies management methods (25), supply chain management is just in 11-th place, and it is beeing used by 45% of managers in Lithuania. Object of this paper – supply chains of different organizations. Object of the research – to find out the importance of influence of Supply Chain Management for companies performance. For the current object, an empirical research was made (a questioning discribed as a questionare) and 47 respondents from 21 different practice organizations were questioned. During the research some clear tendencies were recognized and they are related to the supply chain management in the companies: supply chain management has direct influence for companies activities and it‘s results; the main factor influencing supply chain is growth of competition level; the main problems in supply chain organising and management are overstock and writting-off stock (these problems emerges from untimely managed stock). Another problem in supply chain is unstable stock levels, which creates bigger problems afterwors: goods devluation, fisical and moral abrasion, product‘s validity time expiry, which is big finansial strain and pressure for capital circulating in the company. Very important tendency of information spread influence, to successful companies results, was segregated as well. The more exact information is spread between all people involved in supply chain process – the higher results can be gained, the less oportunities for problems and mistakes to happen. Practical research also confirmed hypothesis: supply chain management has direct influence for companies’ activities. An offered supply chain scheme was created by appealing to practical research tendencies. It shows possibility of organising supply chain so, that storage and stock overplus problems can be reduced. The scheme was not proved practically as was not possible to get finansial data from companies in which interview was performed, so scheme was described just in theoretical level. A scope of the work – 56 pages, it has 16 tables and 19 pictures. |
