Development of the model of an enterprise's transportation costs optimization based on the concept of architecture of integrated information systems (ARIS)

The economic crisis exacerbates the problem of efficiency of transportation services for consumers, which can be seen in the increasing share of delivery costs. A weighty reason for that is insufficient information support for the process of coordinating the activity of supply chains participants while taking decisions on logistics at the both micro-and meso-levels. As a result, the dates of providing enterprises with the necessary resources are not kept, sales and financial results decline. The model proposed by the authors can be used by enterprises of different industries in order to optimise transportation costs. Scientific substantiation is given for the new approach to forming an optimisation model of transportation costs of an enterprise based on the concept of architecture of integrated information systems (ARIS). The core of this model is information support for the process of planning and analysing transport support for material and cocurrent flows in accordance with customers'' requirements, based on the use of the tool «logistic structure of the process of rendering transportation services» proposed by the authors. Development of the process model requires a set of procedures, including a set of methods whose application will make it possible to validate decisions on the formation of stages of the logistic system resource delivery management taking into account customers'' requirements. These methods include: monitoring, integration of functions within the organization, planning of transportation. The novelty of the research consists in the formation of a model of a stage-by-stage process of carrying out service support for transportation on the basis of information and computer support being distinct due to the creation of integrated information space comprising a supply chain participants. This provides quick access to all types of data appearing and accumulating in the system from any workstation. Application of the tool proposed allows for accurate calculation of the package of transportation services according to a customer''s request, interaction of the functional units, as well as a motor transport enterprise and a client, and reduction of transportation services cost for customers. The guidelines for the creation of a logistic structure of the process of providing transportation services and their information support make it possible to: create integrated information space for interaction of the functional units and motor transport enterprises with the external environment; clearly allocate responsibilities among the participants of the process of providing transportation services; provide control over goods traffic on a real-time basis. The proposed model can be used by enterprises of different economic sectors in order to optimise transportation costs.