List of Abstracts 2017: PLENARY SESSION
Date: June 28, 2017
The aim of the chapter is to present some ‘smart’ solutions which could be recognized as innovative solutions in both areas: technology and organization. The above mentioned solution could be implemented by logistics. However, there are two different topics with different meanings: sustainable development and the innovations – the concept of sustainability and innovation have important characteristic in common. Both terms represent concepts that are often poorly defined but they have positive connotations in most cases. The innovations and sustainable development are used as actual or supposed problem solvers in crises where a possible, immediate course of action is not discernible.
The model described in the paper is created based on detailed analysis of historical data of sales for specific motives, products, assortment groups for individual plants (customers) what allows to precise the prognosis of their future demand and resulting requirements for inputs into production.
Methodology and system for evaluating the performance of processes and the firm as a whole from the point of view of achieving its strategic objectives and using multi-criteria methods and vector calculus for the evaluation. The presented solution (performance evaluation model of the firm), which is developed in accordance with the Balanced Scorecard principles, improves the quality and reporting ability of performance indicators through the use of vector calculus operations when aggregating, respectively summarizing, them.