The article was received on June 2, 2020
The economic efficiency of any economic entity depends on the degree of availability of the necessary materials and equipment in the production process. Low capital-labour ratio, high wear coefficient of equipment, lack of materials and equipment are some of the reasons that hinder the development of the agricultural sector of the Stavropol Krai.
One of the ways to overcome the deficit of working assets in the agro-industrial complexes and to increase the competitiveness and investment attractiveness of the Stavropol Krai is to build a good system for material and equipment procurement. The material and equipment procurement should not, in any case, be considered merely as a passive process of executing production orders.
The purpose of the research is to examine the organizational specifics of the procurement process in the agricultural sector of the Stavropol Krai, to develop practical recommendations to overcome the identified negative trends, which allows increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of the domestic agricultural sector.
Research objectives: analysis of the condition and dynamics of the agricultural sector development in the Stavropol Krai; identification of problem areas in the business process of material and equipment procurement for the agro-industrial complexes of the Stavropol Krai; formation of methods for managing the material and equipment procurement system.
This research is based on the statistical data of the Federal State Statistics Service for the Stavropol Krai, as well as scientific works of domestic scholars and practitioners in the theory and methodology of material production development, in the materials and equipment procurement of agricultural organizations. The research uses general scientific methods of research: a systemic and logical analysis of economic information, modelling, comparison, methods of systematization and generalization.