Virtual Warehouse? It's already a reality!;
In the past, and perhaps even today, in small countries where everything was known, a primordial form of virtual warehouse already existed. Every family had, say, a certain amount of food supplies in the pantry, and if, in an emergency, you were short of two eggs or more oil, you could count on the availability of some obsequious neighbor. If each family in the country had, absurdly, designed a common warehouse of supplies, based on the real needs of each one, in scheduled time and movement, they would have obtained an optimization of stocks, the availability of larger spaces in each house and a consequent financial savings for the community.
Transporting this concept to the world of business and to… 2000, where technological progress surprises us daily due to the speed at which it moves, it is discovered that the Unitec company has developed a technology that makes a true and fair virtual warehouse available to companies.
Things work more or less like this: we consider that several companies, including competitors, use the same items in their production chain or sell similar products, can use a common warehouse and that this warehouse is continuously monitored and replenished, with controls carried out, invoices paid and that the company receives a single invoice per month for all of this.
What could be the savings? No more reprocessing and oversized or undersized stocks, no more supply problems, no more need for inventory controls, invoices to be paid and human resources diverted from the company's Core business. Also in purchasing supplies, the possibility of negotiating cumulative purchases would lead to considerable savings.
Wanting to hypothesize within three years from the adoption of the virtual platform, the warehouse would not cost more and could well constitute an asset for the sale of material in supply to other manufacturing companies that were part of the same platform and that needed it. The adoption of the virtual warehouse therefore makes it possible to eliminate managerial overhead, take advantage of negotiated and organizational synergies, benefit from greater price reductions in purchases, guarantee better availability of supplies with a relative increase in qualitative standards, and reduce structural costs.
100% availability of just the warehouse at no cost is every company's dream.
