English to Polish Marketing Business/Commerce (general) logistics

The techniques utilized to analyze the logistics cost can be summarized into four categories: recurrence-based, regression-based, activity-based, and optimization-based (Banomyong and Beresford, 2001). Zoroya (1998) presents a regression model to measure the cost drivers of shippers’ transportation expenses, where three time-based factors are used to examine what influences the price of a transportation lane. The activity-based costing approach to accounting for the logistics costs is presented by van Damme and van der Zon (1999), which helps top management analyze the financial information in order to make logistics decisions. The other stream, using the optimization-based method, comprises a large body of literature on analyzing the system logistics costs. This technique normally attempts to optimize the total logistics cost including transportation in conjunction with inventory and purchasing decisions. The optimization-based method has significant limitations with respect to the number of cost items, the effect of international trade, and the possibility of finding the closed-form or easy solutions (Zeng and Rossetti, 2008).