The Virtual Warehouse (magazzinovirtuale.it)
At the basis of Unitec German logistics services there is a simple premise: it is not necessary for a company to keep semi-finished products or raw materials in warehouse if it knows where to obtain them and knows that it will be able to obtain them in a timely manner.
MagazzinoVirtuale.it is the recent launch carried out by the German company, active throughout Europe, to introduce its integrated logistics solution which, applied to a group of companies or even to an entire industrial district, allows at the same time to reduce the size of the warehouse of the individual company by increasing the quantity and variety of products that can be accessed at the moment the need arises. The result is a reduction in warehouse costs at the individual company level and an increase in asset availability in both quantitative and qualitative terms.
The secret lies in transforming the individual warehouses of each business into a single warehouse through an integration, naturally virtual, based on a data transmission infrastructure.
In other words, the individual company reduces its warehouse of semi-finished products because, thanks to a data transmission network, it can access a much greater quantity and variety of assets in the virtual warehouse, which is nothing more than the integration of information on availability from the locations of the other companies participating in the plan.
The comprehensive solution comprises three diverse elements: the warehouses of the individual companies, the IT and data transmission infrastructure, and the centralized management of the logistics of the group of companies. Unitec acts as administrator of logistics and IT infrastructure. Individual companies continue to run their smaller, less expensive warehouse by sending Unitec information about their own availability. The system should work in the Italian industrial districts because the SMEs in a district, in addition to many being physically close, have similar warehouse constitutions and similar technologies. In fact, the first applications have been implemented between hospital structures belonging to the same city, in situations, therefore, in which geographical proximity, similar warehouse constitutions and technological levels of the same type occur. Individual companies can contact Unitec directly and gradually experience the benefits of the solution at MagazzinoVirtuale, NetSourcing Centers.
Normally, MagazziniVirtuali are activated at the initiative of district leaders or local business associations.