Main logistics digitalization features for business

¹ Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, 195251, Polytechnicheskaya, 29, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
² Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (Moscow) St. Petersburg branch, 197198, Syezhinskaya Str., 15-17, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

^* Corresponding author: olgakalinina@bk.ru

Abstract

The modern foreign and domestic studies consider the digital transformation of the economy mostly as a combination of effects arising under the influence of a number of implemented digital innovations, which result in the emergence of new economic structures, new business practices, as well as new values and beliefs in the business environment. The article is devoted to the research of logistics networks development features in the context of globalization and digitalization of the economy. Issues of increasing the efficiency of the functioning of logistics networks using digital technologies through the creation of information logistics platforms also considered. As the scientific novelty of the study, it should be noted the highlighted advantages of digitalization of logistics platforms. The digital economy, in which modern logistics networks operate, is characterized by the following main features the global nature, the use of network principles for coordinating society and markets, operations with intangible benefits: information and relationships, ideas. Modern management of international logistics systems is based on the integration of digital control in the system of automatic regulation and control of the road situation and the transport situation. Thus, within the framework of the platform economy, there is a complete transformation of the existing business models. The authors prove that the features of logistics digitalization cause a significant impact on the process of logistics networks development with the necessary theoretical and methodological support for the design process of international trading.