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Improving the Transport Management System an FMCG Company

Student: Magomedova Asma

Supervisor: Tamara Levina

Faculty: Graduate School of Business

Educational Programme: Logistics and Supply Chain Management (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

In today's world, improving logistics processes has become a major challenge for many large, medium and small businesses aiming to compete. The topic of improving the competitiveness of an organisation in the market is quite relevant, as evidenced by the many different studies dedicated to this topic. However, one of the shortcomings of a large number of studies is that the solutions they propose require significant financial costs for implementation and application. Process improvement, in turn, is a better way of analysing and optimising costs as well as achieving performance targets. The graduate qualification work is aimed at studying various ways to improve the transportation management system of FMCG-company. The aim of the study: to develop a system of measures to improve the transportation management system of FMCG-company. Object of the study: the company, a manufacturer of beverages and food products, PepsiCo. Subject of the research: transportation management system. Research objectives: 1. To analyse the various problems encountered in the transportation process. 2. To identify and analyse their causes. 3. Develop a set of measures to solve the problems identified. Evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the proposed solutions. Research methods: 1. theoretical methods (analysis, comparison, generalisation, modelling); 2. Empirical methods (examination of documentation, questionnaires); 3. mathematical methods (processing of quantitative data, ranking). The volume of the graduate qualification work: pages 72, figures 20, tables 25, literature sources 38.

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