Digitalization of Economic and Logistics Systems: Creation and Implementation of a Cluster Hub

Abstract

The study includes an analysis of the theoretical aspects of digitization, definition of the concept of the cluster hubs, as well as consideration of the possibilities of their implementation to increase competitiveness and optimization of logistics processes. The article analyzes the modern interpretation of definitions common in the economic scientific environment: digitization, a systematic approach to the study and implementation of digitization advantages in practical activities, digitization of economic and logistics systems as separate categories and their interconnection in one structural component, the logistics hub; the introduction into the economic use of the term «cluster hub» for the logistics complex is substantiated and the option of its creation for Ukraine is proposed, taking into account the current military situation in the country and the post-war revival of its economy. The impact of the modern military and related crisis in the economy of Ukraine on business entities as a consequence of russia’s military aggression is substantiated, which requires the search for new ways of exiting the country’s economy from the current situation. It was determined that the development of the post-war economy of Ukraine cannot occur as a change of the individual subjects, but only in a holistic system of such development, where economic and logistical connections can be managed only in its (system) composition. The system is regulated by modern IT technologies, business process models, information communications, etc. It was determined that the movement of large volumes of goods in the modern wartime, and in the near future in the postwar period, is not possible by conventional means. The previously regulated logistic ways of movement do not correspond to the situation, therefore the use of the latest tools, methods, methods of digitization and IT technologies are important ways of solving the issues. The directions of the digitalization system solution to the problem of delivery, movement of goods, in particular, the creation of a logistics hub (including a cluster hub) that will contribute to the combination of elements of the economic and logistics system are identified: the creation of such a hub on the basis of the airport near the city of Vinnytsia.