The dissertation examines the problems of ensuring the economic security of dairy processing enterprises, which are of particular relevance in the face of uncertainty in the external and internal environment. The relevance of the work is associated with the rapid pace of changes in market conditions, a decrease in raw materials, epidemiological threats, an increase in production costs and many other factors that affect the state of security of such business entities. Each area of economic security of dairy processing enterprises has its own characteristics that require proper assessment. Therefore, in order to prevent threats and risks of a different nature, enterprise managers must have comprehensive information about threats and opportunities to counter such threats, which is impossible without proper information support. To solve this problem, a number of theoretical and practical provisions were substantiated in the dissertation with the aim of supporting the economic security of dairy processing enterprises and developing recommendations aimed at its information support. The paper defines the essence of the main categories and concepts associated with the process of information support of the economic security of milk processing enterprises, which directly affects the result of economic activity. The conceptual and categorical apparatus on the research topic was clarified, which made it possible to define the concept of economic security as the final result of the economic activity of enterprises, which depends on internal and external factors of influence on the sphere of economic activity, the technological sphere, the personnel sphere, the marketing sphere, the management sphere and the information sphere. This made it possible to formulate a definition of this concept as a state of security, which can be ensured both by preventive measures and by actions aimed at eliminating the negative influence of internal and external factors, in the context of an optimal enterprise development strategy.
The leading methods of researching the economic security of enterprises have been determined, the use of which, using data from domestic and foreign enterprises, made it possible to determine the main indicators for assessing the level of economic security of an enterprise. The approaches to the determination of such indicators were supplemented by a classification of risks developed as a result of studying external and internal factors of influence on the economic security of enterprises. This made it possible to identify the most relevant risk classes for domestic enterprises, namely: market, production and inflation. Such a classification is an intelligent set of indicators and criteria determined in real time using the proposed software, namely: indicators of economic activity, which are presented by criteria for the efficiency of production, transport, management, personnel, marketing and financial spheres of milk processing enterprises; indicators that are characterized by the influence of the market environment; indicators of political influence, which can be assessed by the level of conditions for conducting successful economic activities of milk processing enterprises in the country.
On the basis of such indicators, a generalizing indicator of economic security of the integral type was developed, which is presented in the form of a mathematical model that takes into account the weight of each individual indicator of the economic efficiency of milk processing enterprises. To increase the accuracy, the model includes expert assessments that can be obtained using the developed software, which allows experts to get acquainted with the investigated enterprise and provide the necessary assessment of the effectiveness of its individual areas of activity.
A mechanism for optimizing the production and transportation of dairy products in the system of ensuring the economic security of milk processing enterprises using linear programming methods is proposed, which provides for the use of an automated approach, the creation of which is aimed at solving the problems of information support of economic security by assessing the optimality of costs using specially developed software. The operation of such software is based on linear programming methods, in particular the simplex method, and its interface allows you to quickly integrate the necessary data into the calculation model and obtain a result, which allows you to evaluate the optimization.
