The Influence of AutoOrder System on Losses of a Trade Enterprise
Today, creation of an efficient inventory management system for trade enterprises, which allows to cut down cumulative logistics costs, is a key task, The experience of large Russian federal retail networks reflects this tendency. It presupposes working through ones own distribution center with the purpose of uninterrupted supply of ones own shops with the required range of goods and optimization of purchase costs before selling these goods in outlets. Today effective work of a distribution center is impossible without modern information systems and application of cloud computing which allows managing not only stocks, but also orders and the range of goods in the operational mode. The article provides examples of goods order calculation both in manual and automatic mode (an example of an algorithm and formulae). Potential influence of AutoOrder on the increase of losses in retail trade is shown.