Controlling is an important management tool. However, it is differently defined. The paper highlights the difference of controlling and audit and difference of strategic and operational controlling. It also discusses the different role of controlling in traditional and process management....

Operational Management is used on the lowest level of management. It deals with planning, organizing the tasks, their control and removing defects. But specialized transportation firms use so called dispatch management for the truck fleet. This term used in contemporary firms should imply not...

During the last two decades many authors recommended introduction of so called process oriented approach and replace thus the previously functional system. This paper deals with experience of the company Zeelandia, Ltd., which introduced this system as a necessity to receive certification of ISO...

Management of the Supply Chain (SC) in food processing industry is not investigated in such extend, as in other branches of national economy. The authors of this paper tried to show which logistics principals are applied in the SC of bakery products and who is the principal member for managing...

Mass industrial production makes it possible to significantly increase productivity of labour and to reduce costs compared to other production systems. However, there is still room for improvement. The article analyses the production of suction tube and suction modules at Robert Bosch Co.,...

Small and medium sized enterprises were investigated by means of university students who helped managers to fulfill 185 questionnaires. Questionnaires were sorted according to the size of firms into 4 groups [1-9, 10-24, 25-49, 50-249 employees] and according to the branches [Industrial...

This article is founded on 426 investigated companies, dealing with road freight transport. The respondents were both from trucking companies, dealing exclusively with trucking and transport units of manufacturing enterprises which use transport as a supplementary activity [building industry,...

The article deals with analysis of services of the City transport enterprise which offers the same transport services to all citizens, but uses different price politics for five different categories of customers. If the customer buys some of offered time tickets instead of individual tickets,...

Inventories occur fast on all places of the logistic chain. The level of inventories influences significantly the efficiency of enterprising and from this reason it is necessary to devote management inventories in the enterprise corresponding attention. The authors deal with management...

The paper is oriented on the level of exploitation of stock management methods in foodstuff-, consumer goods and engineering industry. Main attention is devoted to the MRP-1 and Kanban methods from the view of managing the stock changes in production. The same attention is devoted to the methods...