ABSTRACT
Direct economic ties between enterprises create the requisite conditions for an effective combination of centralized planning and economic regulation. The established multi-stage system of centralized distribution of means of production for a broad range of goods and the formation of a diversity of economic ties is beginning to impede the natural process of normal circulation of the means of production. The defects in the system of centralized distribution of the means of production also have a direct influence on the level of utilization of fixed assets in the national economy. Direct economic contracts between the enterprises should be viewed as a system that organically supplements the centralized distribution of the means of production. The delivery of small consignments of material resources to customers by the supplier enterprises impedes the development and consolidation of direct economic ties. The distribution of many types of products on a district, republic and national scale can be assigned in some cases to the producing enterprise.
