The master's thesis consists of five chapters. The theoretical part focuses on road transport and its role in the food supply chain. We investigate the links between transport and its impact on the economy as well as the role of infrastructure in freight transport. For a better understanding, we put more emphasis on the external implementation of road transport within the intertwining of the food supply chain, as the thesis topic concerns the cooperation between companies and local transport companies, and the impact on logistics efficiency and business performance that this cooperation entails. As the thesis is based on the case study of Mlinotest d. d., the history of the company is presented, including the definition of its organisational structure, some information on the geographical location of its headquarters, and the entire supply chain process— from the import of raw materials, to storage and export of finished products.
In the practical part, by combining qualitative and quantitative research, we obtained data that was crucial for the research we conducted in order to confirm the set hypothesis. The hypothesis states that Mlinotest d. d. cooperates extensively with local transport companies in its supply chain system for the export of raw materials. In the quantitative part of the study, we used a questionnaire to collect responses from 12 companies that cooperate with Mlinotest d.d., while we obtained insights from Mlinotest through an interview.
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