OREANDA-NEWS. December 19, 2011. Under the support of UVK logistics company, the 3rd workshop – round table took place within the series of professional events ‘Management of Logistics & Supply Chains: Best Ideas & Practices in Ukraine and the EU’. The reasons urged the organizers to held such event were effective transport management issues

The agenda of the workshops was drafted in the way to reach a maximum effect possible out of the complementary competencies of all the speakers who presented their reports. Virtually, each report was followed by a live discussion. Thus, the participants gained the systemic, all-round and complete understanding of a transport constituent of the logistics system in the context of the state regulatory, investment and infrastructural policies, differentiated approach to solving transportation problems, budgeting and freight rates forecasting, end-to-end calculation of tariffs for transportation and freight forwarding services and operational management of a transport business

The report made by Ms. Larisa Gaishuk (Operations Director at UVK) proved a key and most expected presentation. Bringing all the attendees onto the level of the subject matter business processes, Ms. Gaishuk shared with the public her vision onto the paramount pro’s and con’s while deciding on a cargo physical distribution strategy (such as cross-docking, direct delivery, milk-runs and outsourcing), proposed to consider how the transportation related operations were processed in the UVK’s IT system (E-Stock ERP) as well as gave an insight into the company’s management account system and relevant KPI’s

‘Our company is continuously controlling the service level provided for our Customers, which mainly incorporates a delivery SL, CSM SL and communications SL’, stated the UVK’s representative.

‘Our competitive advantage is a ‘smart and well organized’ delivery of cargos. UVK dispatches all its Customers’ cargos with a staff freight forwarding manager accompanying each shipment. An important link within the physical distribution system is the in-house call-center, whose major task is to solve all possible problems occurring ad hoc, on a daily basis. Besides that, we have designed a number of daily monitored reports, which enable to view a number of routes executed, cargos and trucks in movement and cargo hand-over timing. Evaluating a delivery performance, UVK’s average achievement (for the past 5 months) amounts for 97.5%, however our objective set is 99%’, continued Ms. Gaishuk

At the beginning of the event Ms. Ekaterina Mikhailichenko, Head of Department at the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine, made her report, primarily dedicated to the on-purpose program of reforms in the state-owned railway system.

‘The major task of our Ministry for the coming months is to provide a fare legal ground for the scheduled reforms in the railway sector. What regards the auto vehicles sector, we also have a number of tasks to be realized, among which is to foster a consolidation of transport operators, improve road safety and attract private investments’, the reporter said

Ms. Teresiya Babych, Head of Department at UkrAvtoDor, continued in her report outlining the urged transport obstacles at the state level. She presented a number of infrastructural projects done and yet to be accomplished by UkrAvtoDor, especially an animated model of another ring road around the Kyiv City.

‘The major obstacle in road construction in Ukraine remains a lack of financing. Despite the active involvement of FDI’s, the extent of the investment on-purpose coverage constitutes to as low as 34% of the amount in-demand. The most appropriate solution here is a combined approach to financing the subject matter projects. And this is a domain where we have a big interest from the business circles’, shared Ms. Babych

Enjoying multiple positive feedbacks, 3e consultants, the principal organizer of the event, thanked all the participants and announced the next workshop devoted to an efficient inventory stock management issues and pre-scheduled at February 2012