Abstract: | Material products flow during the activity of merchandise turnover brings to constant increase of spatial, temporal and quantitative transformation in the transposition actions: packaging, agreement, transport, warehousing, unloading, delivery, etc. All of these activities cause enormous expenses of transporting-handling damages and great expenses of the bound capital. The proponents of merchandise flows realization are logistic centers. They are constantly investigated and analyzed with regards to the possibilities of rationalization of speeding up of the merchandise flow and total increase of the logistic center efficacy. This paper shows the distinctive logistic centers, their structure and forms of the organization. Additionally, the common characteristics and reasons for their organizing, regardless of the fact who initiated their foundation, are presented. The merchandise flows research analysis is presented through the distinctive data structure of the logistic center. The logistic centers functions are shown through connection of distribution lines, the activities' character and the services' concept. The following are analyzed as distinctive models of the logistic centers on concrete examples: distributive centers for soft drinks, terminals for liquid loads and merchandise-trading centers.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the structure of logistic flows through an appropriate form of logistic center organizing, having for their purpose the realization of the following functions: the reception of finished products, integration, palettization of the products and marking, storing of the products and the reserves, commissioning of the goods and packing, preparation for loading into road and railway traffic vehicles and containers, acceptance, storage and dispatch of a third party merchandise, loading control and regulation of moving of means of road transport, servicing, fuel supply, storage under custom's supervision and development of the systems of merchandise-transporting centers in the function of accomplishing the technological, economic and ecological purposes including the mentioned elements of transposition of the material products. |
