Supply Chain Day 2022 was held on April 21 at the Department of Marketing and Logistics as a part of the Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module project (610856-EPP-1-2019-1-UA-EPPJMO-MODULE) "Logistics and supply chain management: dissemination of European experience".
Every year on Supply Chain Day, the logistics community of Europe holds various events to acquaint the public with the achievements, development of logistics and innovations, the main purpose of which is to show the prospects of this industry. The war showed how important logistics and supply chain management are.
While military logistics provides a strong shield, civilian logistics should be a reliable rear. Wartime logistics is the theme of this year's Supply Chain Day 2022. The motto of the event is Strong Together.
The event was attended by representatives of companies and authorities, who shared their experience of managing logistics processes in a difficult time for Ukraine. In total, more than 120 participants joined the event.
The event began with a greeting from the head of the Marketing and Logistics Department of the Institute of Economics and Management of the Lviv Polytechnic, professor Yevhen Krykavskyy, who noted that the department has been researching logistics and supply chain management since 1995, the third year in a row the event takes place within the framework of the Erasmus+ project. Today's problems, related to the impact of the pandemic and military actions, once again remind us of the extreme urgency of making optimization decisions in the all-Ukrainian and global dimensions in order to ensure a flexible logistics infrastructure, supply chains for adaptation to external threats.
Volodymyr Kvurt, the head of the permanent deputy committee on budget and socio-economic development of the Lviv regional council, also addressed the participants, who spoke about the ways to solve the pressing issues of life in the Lviv region in the current situation, about the challenges that the region had to face, and emphasized the particularly important role of logistics in solving social, economic and other issues.
Representatives of companies operating in the logistics market presented their experience of conducting business, adapting to wartime conditions, and finding new solutions, in particular:
• Roman Skochylyas - Deputy Director of International Transportation of DTEP "East-West";
• Mariya Mulyava – executive director of the GTL company;
• Maryna Melnyk – sales director of Raben Ukraine LLC;
• Sofia Telefuz – internal communications manager of the postal logistics company "Meest";
• Andriy Danyliv – deputy director for network development of JSC "Ukrposhta";
• Oleksandr Kamyshin – chairman of the board of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia";
• Oleg Smokorovskyy - head of the technical department of the wagon management service of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia";
• Lesya Stasyuk - leading engineer of the wagon management service of JSC "Ukrzaliznytsia";
• Andrii Fedorenko – director of Lading LLC.
The work of the event was continued by a discussion panel, where all those present had the opportunity to ask questions of company representatives, discuss problems and opportunities inherent in the logistics market in modern conditions, and exchange current experience and practices.
The students' speeches during the second discussion panel were also interesting and inspiring. Students Nastya Kapushchak - volunteer of the Student Volunteer Staff of the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Marta Tkachenko - educator and volunteer in the organization "Plast", Ostap Nagirnyy - volunteer of the public organization "Volunteers' Hundred" and Khrystyna Pytak - graduate of the Department of Marketing and Logistics, volunteer in the organization Save Ukraine, shared the features of logistical support for volunteering in wartime, related to solving problems of organization, sorting and shipment of humanitarian aid, coordinating the distribution of necessary items and information support.
The team of the project "Logistics and supply chain management: dissemination of European experience" is sincerely grateful to all participants, speakers, as well as student youth for interesting and meaningful reports and active volunteer work.
We sincerely believe and hope that the topic of discussion at the next Supply Chain Day will be the reconstruction of Ukraine after the Victory and the role of logistics and supply chain management in this recovery.
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