ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF TRANSPORTATION COSTS ON THE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN PARTICIPANTS
Introduction. The concept of increase of efficiency of business in a chain of deliveries based on ideology SCM (supply chain management), assumes development of the steady long-term relations between all participants of a chain, based on the economically reasonable mechanisms of management of mutual relations of partners. The process of integration and coordination of relationships of supply chain participants provides opportunities to create significant competitive advantages in case of just-in-time product delivery and with minimal overall logistics costs throughout the chain. Given the fact that the main part of logistics costs are the costs associated with the transportation of products from supplier to consumer, the study of the impact of transportation costs on economic performance of participants in the supply chain is an important task. Data and methods. The presented publication contains the consideration of the parametric dependence of the magnitude of transport costs on a number of variables, using the method of fragmentation of the supply chain at the level of the link "supplier - first level consumer", and its relationship to the final profit of the participants. By the degree of accounting and attribution of transportation costs, the variants are considered: the inclusion of transportation costs in the costs of the supplier; the inclusion of transportation costs in the costs of the consumer of the first level in the case of both non-integrated and integrated supply chain. Results obtained. The analysis of the impact of transport costs on the volume of supply and the final price has been carried out. The results have allowed to formulate the problem of maximizing the profit for all participants in the logistics chain and to obtain its solution. Conclusion. The formulation of the problem, its solution and the obtained dependencies can be of interest for supply chain participants in order to optimize their activities, increase overall efficiency and profit volumes. The presence of transport costs, in the presented formulaic expressions, in an explicit form gives useful information for improving the system of organization of transport logistics.