TRADE SERVICE LOGISTICS: INNOVATIVE SPACE AND TERRITORIAL ASPECTS

Abstract

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