
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.
Annotation. The importance and competitive advantages of digital transformation of supply chains using cognitive IT-platforms are shown. The need to develop the flexibility, dynamism and visibility of supply chains based on the use of the concept / technology of Supply Chain Control Tower – SCCT is proved. The problems of visibility in the supply chain are considered as the main imperative of SCCT implementation for the purpose of control and monitoring of parameters of goods and transport flows. The results of analytical studies of the visibility of supply chains for companies in various industries are presented and summarized. The control signs of poor visibility in the supply chain are identified, as well as practical recommendations for improving visibility based on an analysis of the practices of leaders in supply chain management are given. The basic terminology is presented, the problems are identified, and the key stages of the evolution of the SCCT concept in the direction of increasing the visibility of supply chains are analyzed.
Key words. Digital transformation, supply chain, visibility, Control Tower, monitoring, blockchain.