
We are pleased to present to you the final issue of the journal in 2025 and inform you that LOGISTICS is opening a new page in its development by starting cooperation with the Crystal Growth Foundation, which means that the information saturation of the publication will change for the better. The first issue is dedicated to one of the innovative domestic developments, AI-Kantorovich, which the Crystal Growth Foundation created together with Hive Mind AI.
Dear readers! We are pleased to present to you the eleventh issue of the journal in 2025. There are a lot of relevant and useful materials in the issue, which, hopefully, will not be ignored.
Dear readers! In September the CeMAT RUSSIA exhibition was held, which showed everyone that innovations and robotics are increasingly penetrating the logistics industry. We can safely say that many technologies are tested here, and only then they go out into the world. However, it is not only CeMAT RUSSIA that demonstrates the prevalence of the digital agenda.
The purpose of creating any warehouse is to transform the flow of goods with the least expenditure of six basic resources: space, time, materials, labor, energy, money. The following are recommendations for organizing and managing the warehouse.
Key words. Warehouse, cargo, package, pallet, accommodate, rack, aisle.
The article is devoted to modern logistics technologies of picking aimed at increasing the efficiency of the warehouse operation by reducing the length of the picking process. The main conditions for using warehouse technologies are described and the problems of introduction into the warehouse are considered.
Key words. Warehouse, modern warehouse technologies, picking, Pick-by-Line, Pick-by-Voice, Pick-by-Light, Cross-docking.
The article discusses the key problems of current pricing of the freight road transport in Europe in the case of Antwerp. It shows the basic trends of the European road transport market for 2018. Based on the forecast of the market development there are examined possible solutions to these problems.
Key words. Logistics, international road transport, transportation, freight, European market, road transport prices.
The article analyzes the long-term dynamics of improvements of the values of key performance indicators at the steel company Trinecke Zelezarny, achieved thanks to information support of the advanced planning and scheduling system. The values of the quality indicators of customer service and production efficiency are investigated. It is noted that the achieved results in the period from 2007 to 2013 not only met the expectations of the company's management, but even exceeded them.
Key words. Advanced planning and scheduling, demanding planning environment, metals.
In the course of the discussion, the article considers the shortcomings of logistics science in Russia, suggests ways to increase its effectiveness and reorientate it to increase the social and economic efficiency of transport and logistics processes and to reach a high international rating.
Key words. Logistics science, rating, economic efficiency.