Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation

The scientific paper is devoted to the use of process factors of the functioning of trading enterprises in order to ensure their system security. The paper proposes a managerial algorithm for introducing the practice of standardization and certification in ensuring the safety of trade enterprises. It also proposes to introduce a process approach in the field of quality management and a process-logistic approach, which assesses the quality of the stages of the implementation of the trading processes in the enterprise. The paper proposes the calculation criteria and evaluation models.