Assessment of Logistics Performance Indicators in Network SMES during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Tomaszów County, Poland

Abstract

The issue of small and medium-sized (SME) enterprises has been widely covered in both domestic and international literature. In Poland, sector accounts for 99.8% of the activities of all enterprises. Theoretical analysis and he research discussed in the article was carried out on a sample of network companies from the SME sector and enterprises located in smaller towns and villages in the Łódź Voivodeship (outside the Łódź agglomeration) in Poland, which not often feature in the literature on the subject, Studies also focused on the analysis of the economic performance of the Łódź Voivodeship, especially of the Tomaszów County during the COVID-19 crisis. The article has been based, among others, on: literature on the subject, reports of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (PARP),  BVL reports, practical knowledge about logistics shared by logistics companies on their websites and own research, which was carried out in the form of surveys among enterprises in the SME sector in the Łódź Voivodeship, and selected statistics. The explored indicators concerning the quality of transport and logistics were at a good level. Although they slightly deteriorated during the COVID-19 pandemic, the decline remained within the range of 0–3%.