Improving the Efficiency of Stock Management of Enterprises Based on Automated Information Systems

It is often said that logistics is the art of reasoning, computing. In fact, these two concepts are closely related. The fact is that logistics brings a positive effect when the right management decisions are made. And for making the right decisions, i.e. in order to support decision making, calculations are used. However, performing these calculations is not always easy. For example, in inventory management, it is often necessary to determine not only the parameters of inventory management, but also to compare the economic result of applying certain methods in order to choose the best strategy. And the complexity of the calculations matters, because it is always necessary to measure the effect of management against the costs of its implementation. A question arises regarding the competent organization of computing to support decision-making in logistics. In this regard, the aim of this work is to solve the aforementioned problem and search for optimal means for the implementation and automation of the calculations necessary to support decision-making in logistics. However, in order to narrow the focus of the study, it was decided to dwell on the automation of calculations used in inventory management. Thus, the object of the study is the inventory management of the enterprise, and the subject is increasing the efficiency of inventory management methods through automation. Within this work, some methods of inventory management were considered and an analysis was conducted on the subject of the necessity and complexity of the automation of calculations for these methods. There is a brief review of the coverage of the problem in the literature, the results of which determined that the issue of automation in the literature on inventory management is almost never discussed. In the course of the study, various tools were briefly examined that made it possible to simplify and automate calculations to varying degrees. Moreover, one of these tools was used in practice: using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), inventory management methods were successfully automated: Lot-for-Lot, Least Total Cost, Least Unit Cost, as well as the Silver-Mila algorithm . Reducing the time spent on calculations can be considered very significant. Perhaps this is an indicator that this topic deserves much more attention than it is currently gets