Abstract:

Globalization, electronic trading, ever shortening life cycle of products, integrating customers into company processes, leaps in evolution of information and communication technology all cause changes in the economy. Companies need to follow these trends, if they want to maintain or expand their competitiveness. What contributes markedly to coping with the challenges resulting from these trends is logistics. The main trend in current logistics is the onset of digitization. Companies in the Czech Republic use digital form rather than paper much more frequently when managing their warehouse, inventory, cart and vehicle fleets, stocktaking, ordering freight, etc. This study discusses the position of logistics departments, and particularly the analysis of current as well as past challenges that these departments are or have been facing. For this purpose, a qualitative research in industrial companies was carried out and four hypotheses were subsequently formed. This paper deals with their confirmation and/or disproval.