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The main challenges for industrial companies today are to improve the competitiveness of their products and to adapt and respond quickly to changes in the external environment. Ensuring the effective functioning of an industrial enterprise is largely determined by its procurement activities, including the reliability and consistency of the procurement process. Relevance of the topic is conditioned by the fact that procurement is one of the main components in increasing of competitiveness and efficiency of the enterprise, as the major part of costs in the cost price of the finished products is concentrated exactly in procurement. Reducing costs in procurement is one of the ways to improve the efficiency of the enterprise. This advantage can be achieved through the introduction of modern information technologies, namely automation of the process of selecting suppliers on an electronic trading platform. For this purpose, an information system for selecting suppliers on the electronic trading platform has been developed, which enables a more transparent, fast, profitable and less costly selection of the cheapest and most suitable goods for the operation of energy supplying enterprises. Procurement activities are aimed at ensuring that the energy-supplying undertaking receives the right quantity and quality of raw materials, materials, goods and services at the right time, in the right place, from a reliable and trustworthy supplier with good service and at a favourable price. Automating the supplier selection process on an electronic platform is essential in today's market environment.

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Objective: To develop route control strategies of high-speed trains (VSP) at the stations of mixed traffic lines. Methods: The analysis of conditions of VSP safe passing along the current infrastructure was applied. Results: The issues of modernization of running lines by means of RFID-technology at high-speed network (VSM) in case of mixed traffic were considered. The analysis of high speed train running operation was given, the activity of stations at mixed traffic railway lines was described. Moreover, the analysis of implementation features of technological functions of the existing systems of railway automatics and telemechanics (ZhAT) in case of VSD introduction was conducted. The necessity to lengthen signaling spans, in order to provide safe-stopping distance, in case of VSD, was shown as well as to supply the existing systems with the facilities of route availability to fulfill safety requirements. The use of RFID-marks at checkpoints with decision feedback implementation was suggested, in order to select train passing speed rate at the station. Practical importance: The technology of high-speed running safety control at mixed traffic lines with the current ZhAT infrastructure was developed, based on decision feedback organization principle in VSP onboard complex by supplying the latter with the data on routes availability.