The main tasks of the department are:
- training of competitive specialists in the field of marketing and logistics, commerce and catering, commodity science and expertise of goods and services in demand on the labor market;
- implementation of science-based and practice-based learning;
- organization of integrated learning;
- achieving an international level of educational program quality;
- expansion of the department's international relations with foreign universities aimed at scientific and educational cooperation;
- formation of human resources and intellectual base for the creation and development of scientific schools in promising scientific areas;
- ensuring effective interaction with enterprises in the real sector of the economy;
- ensuring the recognition and consolidation of the image of a mandatory, reliable, highly qualified contractor for educational, research, contractual, consulting and other services and work in the department's profile at the Department of Marketing and Trade.
The department has its own rich experience. Each head of the department, in different periods of time, together with the teaching staff, made a certain contribution to its development and the development of training areas.