The basis of the logistics service offering of Unitec German is a simple principle: a company does not need to keep semi-finished products or raw materials in stock if it knows where to find them and knows it can obtain them in a timely manner.
MagazzinoVirtuale.it is the solution recently launched by the German company, active throughout Europe, to introduce its integrated logistics solution which, applied to a group of companies or even an entire industrial district, simultaneously allows the size of the individual company's warehouse to be reduced by increasing the quantity and variety of products it can access when the need arises. The result is a reduction in warehouse costs at the individual company level and an increase in the availability of assets at both a quantitative and qualitative level.
The secret lies in the transformation of individual company warehouses into a unique 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 virtual warehouse assets, which is nothing more than the integration of information on availability coming from the sites of the other partners participating in the program.
The integral solution involves three different elements: the warehouses of the individual companies, the IT and data transmission infrastructure and the centralized administration of the logistics of the group of companies. Unitec acts as administrator of logistics and IT infrastructure. Individual companies continue to manage their smaller and less expensive warehouses, sending information on their availability to Unitec. The system should work in Italian industrial districts since the SMEs of a district, in addition to being geographically close, have very similar warehouse structures and technologies. In the specific case, the first applications were implemented between hospital structures belonging to the same city, i.e. in situations where there was geographical proximity, similar warehouse structures and equivalent technological levels. Individual companies can contact Unitec directly and gradually experience the advantages of the solution on MagazzinoVirtuale, NetSourcing.
Normally Virtual Warehouses are activated on the initiative of the district leader or local business associations.