On the Issue of the Concept of Value Chain Management

The purpose of this article is to improve the terminology, structure and content of the integrated concept of chain management, including value chains, novelties, demands and supplies. Methods of classification, analysis and synthesis, induction and deduction chosen as research methods, and binary matrices used as a tool, formed on the basis of classification attributes and their dichotomies, allowing to increase the objectivity of obtained results. The results obtained with signs of scientific novelty: classification of variants for managing chains and other objects when creating values for end consumers of products and/or services; the sequence of formation of terms of the main and derived components of chain management; the structure of the chain management concept focused on creating the main types of value for end consumers of products and/or services; the content of management of new types of chains, such as chains of formalization, consumption and generalization of value. These results make it possible to reduce the lost profit of chain links of various types due to the rational distribution of functions, powers, responsibilities between performers and the elimination of cross-functional barriers. The originality of the article is based on the following hypotheses: the presence of a common «chain» management object allows us to develop the concept of integrated management of value chains, novelties, demands and supplies; the value of the end consumer of products and/or services is divided into types and objects, each of which is characterized by specific supply chains and a variant of managing these chains; the main objects chain management forms the prerequisites for the creation of a unified terminological apparatus.