Trade service logistics: innovative space and territorial aspects

The work proves the need for joint consideration of trade and public catering logistics. According to the authors of the article, trade service logistics can unite two independent scientific fields - retail sales logistics and public catering logistics, whereas the retail sales enterprise and the catering enterprise, occupying a medium position in the supply chain between the supplier of raw materials and goods and the final consumer of goods and products, as well as being a direct supplier of trade services and public catering services, are forced, on the one hand, to know and foresee the changing consumer demands and, on the other hand, to build the supply chain in such a way as to minimize total costs; successfully compete with other enterprises; efficiently function from the economic point of view. Development of the economic vision of economic category “trade service logistics” dictates the need to form logistic trade service systems based on two fundamental components - territorial and integral components. The necessity to include the territorial component is explained by the fact that retail sales and public catering, working for an individual consumer, gravitate towards direct locations of their customers. The second component - integral logistics tool, provides for a considerable change in the target function and criteria of optimality of logistics events, which contribute to maximum achievement of competitive advantages to ensure implementation of the trade field development strategies in general, including the public catering field. The article discloses the authors' interpretation of 5D space and territorial logistics concept based on a transfer of scientific research results in the sphere of evolutional development of models and methods of territorial allocation of market economy facilities into the trade service logistics, which is defined as a synergetic unification of retail sales logistics and public catering logistics. The concept developed by the authors enables complex methodological support of logistics at solving of questions on spatial allocation of business units in view of the logistics territory levels and integration processes currently passing in the sphere of trade and public catering.