Abstrakt:
In the last two decades, companies have been aiming at creating supply chains on
company and inter-company basis. The forms of the individual chains and their
management are, however, affected by specific conditions resulting above all from
the nature of the production systems that are included in the chain. If the managers
want to make an adequate decision regarding the management of material flow in
the given chain, they must first identify the specifics of the chain in question and
the main problems slowing or stopping the material flow taking place within the
chain. This article deals both with the contemporary method of management of
material flow in chains with chemical-technological and metallurgical production
processes, and with the problems also arising in these chains during management
of material flows.
