Methods to reduce logistics costs at manufacturing enterprise in the modern context

The study substantiates the need to introduce logistics into the enterprise as the main system factor of profitability of logistics and the total costs of the enterprise in this regard. Average logistics costs in the West make from 10 to 14 % of GDP while in the Russian Federation this indicator amounts to 20 % of GDP. This fact confirms poor control of logistics processes at the domestic enterprises and requires the development of methods to reduce logistics costs of the enterprises which arise at all reproduction stages. To reduce the logistics costs of the companies, it is necessary to consider the manufacturing enterprise as a unified logistics system coordinating and integrating all structures and study each business process except for the processes which do not create values.