INVENTORY MANAGEMENT OF OPERATIONAL MATERIALS IN ROAD PASSENGER TRANSPORTATION COMPANY - CASE STUDY

Inventory management of operational material issues play an increasingly important role in road passenger transportation companies' processes performance. However, the application of classic methods of inventory management in this case is not always possible. The variety of buses used by carriers makes spare parts management a major challenge even for experienced logisticians. Therefore, in the presented paper authors focus on the problem of inventory management of operational materials used in road passenger transport companies. There is presented a literature review of the study area. Then, there are presented the basic problems of operational materials inventory management process performed by the carrier operating in Lower Silesia region, Poland.