Bìznes Inform (Dec 2018)
The Risks Management of the Logistics Activities of Industrial Enterprises
Abstract
The changeable and unpredictable development of the external environment of enterprise is one of the reasons of occurrence of various kinds of risks as to economic activity, including the logistic activity. The article is aimed at forming the theoretical bases and developing practical recommendations on improvement of risks management of industrial enterprises in conditions of instability. The existing scientific approaches to classifying of logistic risks of enterprises influencing the results of logistic activity and requiring account when making appropriate managerial decisions are analyzed and generalized. It is determined that the majority of scholars includes in such risks the ones connected with organization of processes of supply, production, warehousing, storage, transportation, sale of production, contract works. The content of the term of «risks of the logistic activity of enterprises» is clarified, it is proposed that this term be considered as probability of occurrence of events, resulting in damages and losses as result of happening of downtime, disruptions in the supply chain, and destabilization of the logistics system. The risks of logistic activity of industrial enterprises are identified, which are grouped into two groups: exogenous (political, institutional, market, financial, ecological) and endogenous (related to the processes of material and technical supply, stock formation, economic, technological, transport, marketing, information, ecological). Expediency of application of a complex approach to the risks management of logistic activity of industrial enterprises is substantiated.
