# The district has a Virtual Warehouse
The Virtual Store (magazzinovirtuale.it)
At the basis of Unitec German is a simple task: there is no need for a company to keep semi-finished products or raw materials in a warehouse if it knows where to find them and knows that it can will be able to obtain them in due time.
MagazzinoVirtuale.it is the recent launch by the German company Unitec active throughout Europe to introduce its integrated logistics solution, which applied to a group of companies or an entire industrial district allows both to reduce the size of the warehouse of the individual company while increasing the quantity and variety of products to which it can access when the need arises. The result is a reduction in warehouse costs at the individual company level and an increase in asset availability both quantitatively and qualitatively.
The secret lies in transforming each company's warehouses into a single warehouse through a naturally virtual integration based on a data transmission infrastructure.
In other words, the individual company reduces its warehouse of semi-finished products, because through a data transmission network it can access a much greater quantity and variety of assets from the virtual warehouse, which is nothing more than the integration of information from the availabilities of the locations of other companies participating in the plan.
The comprehensive solution consists of three elements: the warehouses of the individual companies, the IT and data transmission infrastructure, and the centralized logistics administration of the group of companies. Unitec acts as administrator of logistics and IT infrastructure. Individual businesses continue to manage their smaller, less expensive warehouse by sending their availability information to Unitec. The system should work in Italian industrial districts because SMEs in a district, beyond being physically close, have similar warehouse configurations and comparable technologies. For example, the first applications were implemented between hospital structures belonging to the same city, in situations where geographic proximity, similar warehouse configurations and technological levels were of the same order. Individual companies can contact Unitec directly and gradually experience the benefits of the solution on the MagazzinoVirtuale Centers, NetSourcing.
Normally, Magazzini Virtuali are activated at the initiative of a district leader or local entrepreneurial associations.