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Introduction/purpose: Intralogistics involves the organization, control, realization, and optimization of material and information flows within a technologically integrated system. The selection and application of appropriate material handling equipment (MHE) play a crucial role in shaping intralogistics systems. This paper aims to define guidelines for selecting MHE based on scientific research. The methodology implemented to achieve this goal comprises several fundamental steps. Methods: The initial step involves analyzing three typical groups of tasks in (intra)logistics systems: transshipment, internal transport, and production activities. The analysis focuses on identifying and describing key task parameters, such as the type of unit load, quantity, flow intensity, and the location and timing of task initiation and completion. Next, there is a step devoted to the analysis of relevant scientific research. The literature is searched according to specific criteria, such as publication year, keywords, and citation count, to form a database of relevant papers. The analysis focuses on identifying and linking the parameters of practical tasks with those described in the literature and on the characteristics of the MHE used to facilitate the selection of appropriate MHE for these tasks. Results: Following this, in the third step, the observed task is classified according to standard task types found in the literature. Conclusion: Finally, in the last/fourth step, regression analysis is applied to define the guidelines for MHE selection based on the frequency of use of specific MHE groups for certain task groups as described in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today, supply chains operate in a very uncertain global environment, so one of the basic tasks is to maintain a higher level of resilience. Great threats to the resilience of supply chains, which occur at time intervals, are labelled in literature as health crises. The appearance of diseases, due to their nature may cause epidemics and pandemics’, which can greatly endanger stability and lead to interruptions in supply chain processes. A major problem cited in literature concerning the specifics of such situations relates to the limited ability to predict both the causes and consequences of such actions. Due to that, it is difficult to manage crisis situations, and as a logical consequence, there are immeasurable negative effects. The aim of this paper is to examine the negative effects of various epidemics and pandemics on production in the automotive industry. The analyses were employed with the aim of defining the extent to which an epidemic and a pandemic disrupt production activities in supply chains. In addition, it is important to consider the characteristic of viruses, as well as the differences in the average values of production in the years when the crisis occurred. In order to analyse the hypotheses, the authors used Wilcoxon’s test to check the statistical significance of changes in production levels. To examine the significance of the difference in average changes in production for the duration of the epidemics and the pandemics, the authors used Friedman’s test in SPSS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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