Organization of Transport in a Commercial Enterprise Operating in a Branch Purchasing Group

Joint action in multi-stakeholder organizations is one of the ways to improve the competitive position of enterprises. A standard example of multi-entity organizations are group purchasing organizations (GPOs). In purchasing groups companies often order goods or materials with excessive stock which adversely affects the level of inventory and transport costs. However, cooperation between enterprises and mutual transactions provide opportunities for optimizing the level of supply and costs related to transport. In the article some possibilities of transport organization obtained by enterprises operating in purchasing groups were presented. The main goal of the article is to present the optimal model of transport organization in a commercial enterprise operating in the branch purchasing group.