Research on the management of investments in logistics

V diplomskem delu smo želeli ugotoviti, kakšno je stanje z investicijami v logistiki in njihovim upravljanjem. Izbrano temo smo si izbrali kot naš predmet raziskovanja, saj gre za dokaj neraziskano področje, o katerem še ni veliko napisanega in ugotovljenega. Raziskavo smo izvedli na ozemlju celotne Slovenije. Anketirali smo 20 podjetij, ki se razlikujejo med seboj po sektorjih, velikosti in lasti. Anketa, ki je glavno vodilo naše raziskave, je sestavljena po vzoru poročila Global Status Report on the Governance of Enterprise IT iz leta 2011 inštituta ITGI. Gre za poročilo, ki ugotavlja, kakšno je upravljanje investicij na področju informacijskih tehnologij. Glede na to, da sta si IT in logistika v veliko lastnostih podobni, je anketa prirejena na način, da lahko ugotovimo, kakšno je upravljanje investicij v logistiki. Podjetja smo povprašali po vlogi vodje logistike, o njihovih poslovnih ciljih, kaj menijo o vlogi logistike, ali vlagajo v investicije v logistiki, ali pri tem uporabljajo kakšne okvirje oz. standarde ipd. Prva in edina takšna raziskava je bila narejena leta 2012. Odločili smo se jo ponoviti, z namenom, da ugotovimo, kako se je stanje spremenilo. Ugotovili smo, da podjetja sicer menijo, da je logistika v podjetju zelo pomembna, vendar je še vedno ne vidijo kot ključni faktor pri doseganju poslovnih ciljev. Prav tako smo ugotovili, da je potrebno vpeljati okvir, ki bi vodjem pomagal pri upravljanju investicij v logistiki, saj je na tem področju še veliko neznanja.In this thesis we wanted to investigate the situation of investments in logistics. The reason for choosing this topic is that it is yet not very well researched and there are not many publications available. The research was done across Slovenia. Twenty companies different in size, ownership and field of expertise were given a survey. Survey was used as the main tool in our investigation and was set up according to Global Status Report on the Governance of Enterprise IT (2011), an investment management report in the field of IT published by ITGI Institute. The companies were asked about what the role of the logistics manager, business goals, role of logistics, the amount of investments they make into it and whether they follow any standards or frameworks. The only research of this type was done in the year 2012. Our aim was to verify it and investigate the changes. Our conclusion is that companies do think that logistics is very important however, they do not see it as the key factor to success. On top of that we have concluded that it is necessary to implement a framework or guideline which would help the leaders to manage investments in logistics. The knowledge and experience in this field are yet scarce