The modern stage of logistics development, during which the studies mostly concentrate on recognition and explanation of the supply chain operation mechanisms, defines new
research areas. As it has already been mentioned, the measurements of efficiency in
logistics were studied in previous research work, however, due to the difficulties in selection of methods, scope and time horizon for the studies, these problems connected with supply chain management are still considered as basic and up-to-date issues. The problems regarding supply chain efficiency measurements results mostly from the
characteristics of the subject of the studies, i.e. a supply chain. Modifications of an approach to a supply chain, in particular the differences in defining its scope, constitute the reason for ambiguous understanding of its efficiency. Assuming, in line with the latest definitions, that the scope of a supply chain comprises a set of processes between the provider's provider and customer's customer, the issue of the comprehensive measurement of supply chain efficiency arises. The lack of necessity to define the beginning and the end of a supply chain mostly results from the development of the supply chain organisation and transformations of its architecture, which exerts impact both on the increase in supply chain length and volume. The problem of efficiency measurements is partly resolved by referencing five main supply chain efficiency areas to defined values, i.e. a benchmark, e.g. using one supply chain reference model (e.g.
SCOR, etc.) [liwczyski 2012]. Thus efficiency is perceived in the context of a set of
indicators referring to processes within