Untitled - Ministerstwo Rozwoju Regionalnego

their financial resources (by 2008) for purchasing and implementing these technologies.
As for fixed assets, 42% of them will be allocated for construction or
modernisation of warehousing facilities, and 38% for transport means. This kind
of structure of planned investment justifies the statement that companies are
making and will make better and better use of outsourcing.
In 2005, empirical studies were carried out in the SMEs sector 11 , because the
role and significance of this sector is growing year by year. It must be added
here that already in 2002 the share of this sector in GDP was 48.6%, and it offered
68.1% of the total number of jobs.
It is also worth mentioning that in the period of 2002-2005, 47% of capital
outlays for the construction and modernisation of fixed assets was used in the
provinces of Mazowieckie, Œl¹skie and Wielkopolskie. Therefore, it was decided that
100 companies based in Wielkopolskie using – now or in the past – EU resources
should be studied in order to find out how these resources influenced the development
of their financial base, necessary to implement logistics processes. It
turned out that the EU resources were allocated for:
– warehousing space development, purchase of means of transport, and implementation
of quality management systems – 60% of the resources
granted;
– modernisation of production processes – 21%;
– purchase of computer hardware and software – 19%.
With their flexibility and innovativeness, small and medium-sized companies
constitute important, often complementary to big forms, links of international
logistics chains, and with the EU financial support, they can efficiently
compete with enterprises operating in international and European markets.
As it was mentioned before, outsourcing becomes increasingly important in
business services. Outsourcing is regarded as a remedy for cutting down the
company’s operational costs. The average global value of outsourcing services
amounts to 1 billion dollars a year, and is still growing.
The Polish logistics services market is developing quickly, as in the period of
2001-2003 logistics companies transported 46% more goods than in 1999. Stock
handling also increased – by 85.1% as compared with 1999, with storage space
increased by 38%. It must be stressed that in the 2000s, logistics companies doubled
their income from operations in Poland, while their turnover with Western
Europe increased by 75%, and with Eastern Europe by 53% 12 .
More common use of outsourcing in logistic processes is considered to be
one of the most important factors stimulating the development of logistics, as it
makes it possible to lower logistics costs and keep timely deliveries.
11 E. Go³embska, Podstawy logistyki, op. cit., pp. 140-142.
12 E. Go³embska, Business Logistics Management in Poland, Today and in the Future, Deutscher Logistics
Congress, Berlin 2002, p. 75.
316