APPROACHES TO ASSESSING THE LOGISTICS OF FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES OF PHARMACEUTICAL PRODUCTION MANUFACTURERS

Abstract

It has been established that the foreign economic activity (FEA) of manufacturing pharmaceutical enterprises is carried out in the form of export of medicines, import of active pharmaceutical ingredients, basic and auxiliary materials, equipment, provision of services and it is one of the important spheres of enterprise activity. It was determined that logistics can improve the efficiency of FEA of enterprises. Logistics operations in the field of FEA of manufacturing pharmaceutical enterprises include the purchase of the necessary active pharmaceutical ingredients, materials and raw materials, their delivery and storage, movement to the workshop, inside the workshop and to the warehouse of finished products, storage of finished products in the warehouse, and their delivery to the consumer. The main problems of the logistics of the FEA of the manufacturing pharmaceutical enterprises are identified: the imperfection of route development, the low efficiency of the pharmaceutical logistics chain, the lack of documentation of all logistics operations, the principles of logistics in international agreements; the lack of unified requirements, standards and rules; compliance with operational procedures related to logistics activities and the impossibility of adjusting the order. It was determined that logistics allows to improve the efficiency of foreign economic activity of enterprises. It is proposed to evaluate logistics activities in the field of foreign economic relations to carry out a rating assessment of the quality characteristics of the logistics of foreign economic activities. It is proposed to carry out the methodology of diagnostics of FEA logistics in five directions: quality of document flow of FEA logistics; system of accounting for logistic operations of FEA; efficiency of FEA logistic activity; reliability of logistics; the efficiency of logistics personnel in the field of FEA. The definition of an integral indicator of FEA logistics activity is proposed. A rating scale of the quality characteristics of the FEA logistics has been developed.