Once upon a time, and perhaps even today, in the small countries where everything was known, there was already a primary form of virtual camp. All families had, let's say, a certain amount of food supplies in the pantry, and if two eggs or more oil were missing in an emergency, one could rely on the availability of a helpful neighbor. If, say, every family in the country had designed a common warehouse of supplies based on the real needs of each and functioning according to programmed times and movements, an optimization of stocks, more space in each house and corresponding economic savings for the community would have been achieved.
Translating this concept to the business world and in the year 2000, where technological advances amaze us every day with their speed, it turns out that the company Unitec has developed a technology that provides companies with a real and adequate virtual warehouse.
The way it works is roughly as follows: we assume that different companies, including competitors, using the same parts in their production chain or selling similar products, can use a common warehouse and that this warehouse is continuously monitored and replenished, with controlled stocks, paid invoices, and the company receives a single invoice per month for all this.
What savings are possible? No more repeated orders and over- or under-sized inventory, no more delivery delays, no need for constant inventory checks, paying bills and human resources diverted from the company's core business. Even when purchasing supplies, the ability to negotiate cumulative purchases could result in notable savings.
Assuming that over the course of three years from the launch of the virtual platform, the warehouse would no longer cost any more and could well be an asset for selling materials to other manufacturing companies that are part of the same platform and require it. The introduction of a virtual warehouse therefore makes it possible to eliminate administrative overheads, to take advantage of negotiation and organizational synergies, to take advantage of higher discounts on purchases, to ensure better availability of stocks with a corresponding improvement in quality standards and to reduce structural costs.
100% availability of a warehouse at zero cost is the dream of every company.
