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Integration in the area of international trade also affects business entities in the Czech Republic, which merge with each other to form larger business units to maintain a competitive level of their offer. Thus vast, structurally more and more complex supply systems are developed, through which products and services are provided to the customers. These systems have to be able to respond promptly to any changes in the business environment and to any changes in the customer requirements. Therefore, there is a changeover from static supply systems to systems with a dynamic structure, which changes with each opportunity, order, or product. This transition requires solutions to a number of problems, such as e.g. implementation of highly sophisticated ICT, arising increased coordination costs, setup of the ways of cooperation between the entities inside supply chains. Application of different forms of cooperation is dependent on a lot of problems like technical equipment, system compatibility, different corporate cultures, willingness to share information, branch characteristics, characteristics of the manufactured product, and other factors. Therefore, this paper identifies and evaluates, on the basis of comparison of literature research outcomes and analysis of a twenty-year development of creation of the structure of a particular chosen supply system in the chemical industry, the ways and conditions of the genesis of the given structure and the advantages resulting from creation of a supply system and cooperation of the partners therein.
Keywords: Supply chain, structure of supply system, forms of cooperation, chemical industry© This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.