THE ROLE OF THE INTEGRATED LOGISTICS SUPPORT IN REDUCTION OF SPENDINGS ON MANAGERIAL AND ENGINEERING MAINTENANCE OF COMPLEX SCIENCE-INTENSIVE OBJECTS
In this article the author describes the integrated logistics support of advanced technology products' methodology realization and its impact on the reduction of the total level of an operator's expenditures due to the decrease of service and repairs costs. It is statistically proven that up to 70% of total life-cycle cost is paid by an operator during exploitation life-cycle phase and the so called "selling price" of a product accounts for only 30% of the total life-cycle cost. Thus it is obvious that trying to win in a competition the advanced technology products' manufacturers are looking for some new tools which can help producers to reduce these 70%. One of these tools is integrated logistics support which is partly described in this article.