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Shortening supply chains – the prospect of international exchange

Maryniak Anna, Kliber Paweł

Gospodarka Materiałowa i Logistyka

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2024

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nr 2

24--33

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Due to the various crises and the geopolitical situation, it is emphasized that it is necessary to create resilient supply chains through nearshoring. The effect of this is the shortening of supply chains in the area of purchasing materials and components, i.e. in the sphere of supply management relations. This should result in changes at the level of trade in the area of purchases. The aim of the article is to diagnose whether there is a tendency to reduce the volume of supplies with the increase in the distance of supply sources from the perspective of their overall structure. The context of the considerations is the European Union, with special focus on Poland. Time series analysis was used as a research method to detect the nature of the phenomenon represented by a sequence of observations, as well as classic descriptive statistics. It was inter alia found that no reduction in the burden on international supply chains was observed in Poland and the EU, expressed in the volume of trade exchange in terms of value. Additionally, no positive structural changes towards shortening supply chains were observed, despite an increase in transport costs and pro-environmental policy. The research may support decision-making regarding ways to strengthen resilience in goods flows. Previously, research on this topic was usually conducted in an aggregate form. The new research contribution is an analysis that takes into account such moderators as short and long flows.

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Z uwagi pojawiające się kryzysy różnej natury i sytuację geopolityczną podkreśla się, że konieczne jest tworzenie odpornych łańcuchów dostaw poprzez nearshoring. Efektem tego jest skracanie łańcuchów dostaw w przestrzeni zakupów materiałów i komponentów, czyli w sferze relacji zarządzania dostawami. Powinno to skutkować zmianami na poziomie wymiany handlowej w obszarze zakupów. Celem badania jest zatem zdiagnozowanie, czy istnieje tendencja do mniejszego obciążenia łańcucha dostaw z punktu widzenia dostaw międzynarodowych, czyli importu towarów. Przedmiotem rozważań jest Unia Europejska ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem Polski. Jako metodę badawczą do odkrywania natury zjawiska reprezentowanej przez sekwencję obserwacji oraz klasyczną statystykę opisową wykorzystano analizę szeregów czasowych. Stwierdzono m.in., że w Polsce i UE nie obserwuje się zmniejszenia obciążenia międzynarodowych łańcuchów dostaw wyrażonego wartościowo wolumenem wymiany handlowej. Dodatkowo, pomimo wzrostu kosztów transportu i polityki prośrodowiskowej, nie zaobserwowano pozytywnych zmian strukturalnych w kierunku skracania łańcuchów dostaw. Badania mogą pomóc w podejmowaniu decyzji dotyczących sposobów wzmocnienia odporności w przepływach towarów. Dotychczas badania na ten temat były prowadzone przeważnie w formie zagregowanej. Nowym wkładem badawczym jest dokonanie analizy uwzględniającej takie moderatory jak przepływy krótkie i długie.

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Will Transport Affect Globalization? Are We Heading Back to Locally Based Economic Activities?

Chrzanowski Ignacy H.

Logistics and Transport

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2019

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Vol. 43, No. 3

57--66

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The paper discusses some aspects of the transport industry’s impact on the process of globalization in the world economy. Emphasis is put on the emerging new trends in that area, and in particular on the reverse globalization frequently referred to as “de-globalization”. While the latter concept provides ground for controversy, it seems that it has become visible in the number of trades and in particular in food trades which engage a considerable portion of the world transport system’s carrying capacity. Moving back to local production of food, one of many areas where the process of de-globalization appears to have started, might liberate vast reserves of transport capacity worldwide while, simultaneously, it will contribute to the reduction of transport-generated pollution. Arguments for such a solution are raised in the paper as is the necessity for more in-depth analysis in this field.

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Globalization and Deglobalization – Costs and Benefits, Winners and Losers

Flejterski S.

Logistics and Transport

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2018

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Vol. 39, No. 3

79--86

EN

Still at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21th century it was a common belief that the world had just entered a new civilisational paradigm, completely different from all the previous ones in the history of the mankind. The new paradigm was called ‘globalization’ and although it had never been precisely defined, the term stirred up a very animated dispute: there were fervent enthusiasts and fervent opponents of everything that was as inexactly defined as globalization. Both enthusiasts and opponents agreed what phenomena made globalization up, but the assessment of those phenomena was diametrically different; according to the enthusiasts globalization reduced famine in the world, stimulated development and growth, decreased unemployment, improved the quality of natural environment, created new global democracy and was the only reasonable option for the mankind; and according to the opponents globalization increased famine in the world, made development and growth stop or even diminish, aggravated unemployment, lowered the quality of natural environment, destroyed human solidarity, stimulated corruption and was a path to hell. The impact of globalization and deglobalization on different areas of economy and society is a topic of several discussions and publications.