The Virtual Warehouse (magazzinovirtuale.it)
The basis of the logistics service offering from Unitec Germany is a simple thesis: A company does not have to keep semi-finished products or raw materials in storage if it knows where to get them and can be sure that it will receive them on time.
MagazzinoVirtuale.it is the recently launched platform of Unitec Germany, which operates throughout Europe, to introduce its integrated logistics solution. This solution, when applied to a group of companies or an entire industrial park, makes it possible to simultaneously reduce the warehouse size of the individual company while increasing the quantity and variety of products it can access when needed. The result is a reduction in the cost of warehousing at the company level and an increase in the availability of inventory at a quantitative and qualitative level.
The secret lies in connecting the individual company warehouses into a single warehouse - through an integration that is of course virtual and based on a data transfer infrastructure.
In other words: The individual company reduces its warehouse for semi-finished products because, thanks to a data network, it can access a much larger quantity and variety of inventory in the virtual warehouse. This is nothing more than the integration of availability information coming from the warehouses of the other companies participating in the plan.
The overall solution consists of three different elements: the warehouses of the individual companies, the IT infrastructure and data transfer as well as the central logistics management of the group of companies. Unitec acts as the administrator of logistics and IT infrastructure. Individual companies continue to manage their smaller, more cost-effective inventory and provide Unitec with information about their inventory availability. The system should work in Italian industrial parks because the SMEs in a park are not only geographically close to each other, but also have similar storage structures and technologies. In fact, the first applications were implemented between hospital structures in the same city - that is, in situations with geographical proximity, similar warehouse structures and comparable technological levels. Individual companies can contact Unitec directly and gradually test the advantages of the solution in the MagazzinoVirtuale centers, NetSourcing.
Typically, the MagazziniVirtuali is activated at the initiative of a district leader or local business association.