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regarding construction of new enterprises in Slovakia state that
demand for qualified workforce in logistics keeps growing, as
new businesses have not only their own logistics, but many of
them utilise the growing network of logistics centres.

Technologies and innovations in logistics activities are is
situated in the middle of dynamic changes and enterprises must
managed and followed them continuously during common daily
routines. It has a significant impact on performance and
effectiveness of production. World has changed dramatically in a
relatively short time, and businesses focus on management of
supplier chains. In approximately last three decades, since the
phrase „management of supplier chain“ appeared for the first
time, we have witnessed an important trend of globalised
supplier chains, while activities which used to be performed
internally are now ordered externally, being accompanied by a
dramatic growth of changes in business environment, which
creates higher level of uncertainty in demand and offer.

The results of the survey show that automotive enterprises in
Slovakia use 82% of technologies and innovations in logistics.
With large enterprises dominating with the share of 77.8%.
Automotive enterprises with the largest percentage of 65.8% use
supply chain management. The small enterprises use logistics
outsourcing with the share of 15%. Enterprises from the
automotive industry that operate in production use supply chain
management with the share of 78.6%. Automotive enterprises
operating in services use at least cross-docking with the share of
7.4%. The use of cross-docking predominates in the distribution
logistics of automotive enterprises with the share of 72.6%. The
small enterprises use cross-docking in procurement logistics
with the share of 4.1%. The importance and position of
distribution logistics and the use of cross-docking were also
confirmed by the tested hypothesis. At the level of significance
α = 0.05 is a statistically significant dependence between the use
of cross-docking and the improvement of distribution logistics.
The use of technologies and innovations in automotive
enterprises is influenced by transport by the largest percentage
(29%). The small enterprises operating in Slovakia in the
automotive industry are affected by packing with the share of
7%.

The proper functioning of small and medium-sized enterprises,
which represent great potential, is important for the proper
development of the economy, but their operation faces many
pitfalls, which include, in particular, inadequate financial
conditions for their development (Richnák, 2016f). Today's
dynamic business environment brings with it a range of logistics
technologies. Every enterprise has to realise that its competitive
advantage in the market is not only lowering production costs
and improving product quality, but also focusing on the
employees themselves, so it is important to choose a logistics
technology that not only increases productivity but also helps
development of motivation and creativity of employees
(Richnák, 2019g).

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