Transport Economics Centre has within the EU project CASTLE and in cooperation with the ACS (Automotive Cluster of Slovenia) successfully organized the first CASTLE Regional logistics forum entitled "How to improve logistics in Slovenian companies." 

The Forum started with presentation of selected examples of logistics good practices collected in CASTLE project. The emphasis of presented cases was on the integration and active participation of public administration and policy-makers. The cases from EU were followed by presentations of best logistics practices from Slovenian companies, where company representatives introduced their best practices and have pointed out interest in cases of similar experiences in other EU regions.

The second part of the forum was devoted to presentation of logistics competence centre concept, its purpose and possible areas of activities. Experiences from regions where logistics competence centers successfully operate were presented. At the present the lack of coordinated collaboration between business sector, policy makers and R&D in Slovenia is causing the lagging of logistics in Slovenia. Establishment of Slovenian logistics competence centre, as a focal point of collaboration, could improve the situation. The Forum was concluded with a round table discussion where the speakers (representatives of companies, associations and Ministry of Transport) have expressed their views and proposals regarding the establishment of Slovenian logistic competence centre. A joint conclusion of the round table was that establishment of logistics competence centre could be the answer to perceived problems and would be welcomed by all the participants. In order to bring the establishment of logistics competence centre into realization further steps must be taken – specific features as well as legal framework should be determined on basis of ascertained interest. It can be concluded that the first Regional CASTLE Forum has successfully established a dialogue between stakeholders in order to enhance the cooperation and to improve the situation of logistic in Slovenia especially for SMEs. Furthermore, such a center should also provide support for interconnection between companies as well as educational content.

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File	Description	File size
Okrogla miza	Povzetki okrogle mize	116 Kb
Dnevni red	Dnevni red logističnega foruma projekta CASTLE	130 Kb
Tomislav Letnik	PROJEKT CASTLE - izboljšanje politik na področju logistike v Sloveniji	287 Kb
Katja Hanžič	Primeri logističnih dobrih praks zbranih v projektu CASTLE	955 Kb
Dušan Bušen	Projekt STAR-NET Transport	499 Kb
dr. Milan Svetec & Mitja Štiglic	Zniževanje transportnih stroškov za majhna in srednje velika podjetja – projekt KASSETTS	1225 Kb
Stojan Grgič	Vitka proizvodna logistika in dostava repromaterialov	544 Kb
Valter Rejec	Kako s primerno organizacijo izvajanja logistike v podjetju znižati stroške	4287 Kb
mag. Sebastjan Škerlič	Obvladovanje logističnih operacij v podjetju Cimos d.d.	1020 Kb
Tomislav Letnik	LOGISTIČNI KOMPETENČNI CENTER	415 Kb