Logistics
The term “Logistics” has been more and more used by the Italian business realities, but its meaning is often not so clear as it should be ….
It is nowadays quoted in numerous meanings such as Industrial, Integrated, Trade, Productive, Materials Logistics and so on... but also in these cases it is not very clear what it is used for.
The Logistic Department of InterportoPadova S.p.A. bases its competitivity on the high quality of the service offered and on the capacity to cover the whole array of the logistic industry, by directly guarding and controlling every single process.
In our opinion, a clear classification of “Logistics” was expressed by SoLE (the Society of Logistic Engeneering) which identifies and defines four specific and different areas:
- Industrial and Trade Logistics: the one whose goal within a firm is that of physically, informatively and organisationally managing the flows of products, from the supply sources to the end customers;
- Big Entities Logistics: the one concernine the management and handling of big quantities of loose material, generally raw materials such as crops, carbon or oil;
- Project Logistics: by referring to the management and coordination of the planning and creation of complex systems includine infrastructures, electric centrals, ports, airports, plants for the big industrial facilities and the choices relating to their territorial distribution;
- Support Logistics: it is the one which concerns the management of high technology products such as helicopters and airplains, which require at their very essence reliability and maintenance opportunities.
Yet, when talking about “Logistics” within the sphere of business management and organisation, one exclusively refers to Industrial and Trade Logistics or rather, with more correct a diction, to “Integrated Logistics”.
The National Council of Physical Distribution Management defined “Integrated Logistics” as follows: “Integration of two or more activities with the goal of planning, performing and controllino the flow of the raw materials of the semifinished and the finished products from the place of origin to the one of consumption, so to make it as efficient as possible”.
These activities with no doubts comprisse: the handling of materials, intermodality, the stocking, the control of the goods in hand, the packaging, the orders eecution, the transportation, the traceability and so on ...
The correct management of the Logistic chain thus represents one of the most critical moments within the current economic and industrial context. As a matter of facts, the scenario shows a logistic/distributive system characterised by an increasing and growing complexity.
This way, Logistic Management becomes the tie between the intrcompany relationships, in the logic of supply chain management, and the Optimised Management of Logistics becomes a thorough key factor for competitive advantages on the firms’ side.
The most important necessities and needs expressed by the market, in this sense, appear to be those of:
- making the transportations operations on the sea, road and rail networks safer;
- making the operations in hubs such as ports, airports, logistic and intermodal platforms up to each single production center safer;
- maximising the availability of operational means, and minimising the operation and maintenance costs thereof.
InterportoPadova S.p.A. proposal in this offer starti fro the experience harnessed over years of logistic processes management performed for important national and foreign customers and on vertical markets of all kinds: from pharmaceutics to beverage, from food to automotive, from high technology to agricultural and food. Thanks to an integrated set for the management of the "extended supply chain", InterportoPadova S.p.A. allows for the reduction of the operational costs, the continuous improement of the logistic quality standards and new opportunities for developing the firms’ businesses.To reach its objectives, Interporto di Padova S.p.A. uses its wide array of solutions for the management and the control of plants and infrastructures, of traffic and of fleets, by paying particolar attention to the networks, the transportation hubs and the evolution of the European and Intercontinental Scenario.