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A FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE DISTRICT NET: THE VIRTUAL WAREHOUSE
The ADVANTAGES Of The VIRTUAL WAREHOUSE
The advantages of the Virtual Warehouse are mainly four, which if they can some then add other
accessories:
- increase of the liquidity financial institution
- lessening of the warehouse costs
- possibility of forts you discount
on the acquired goodses
- better management of supplyings
- increase of the availability
The stored goods is immobilized
understanding them; reducing the own supplyes in function of the presence of the same goodses in the Virtual Warehouse one
obtains an increase of liquidity, and this door to the possibility of new investments, without to resort to the indebtedness.
When an enterprise decides to join to the MV, the first advantage that it has some is that one of being able to diminish
the supplyes of 20% approximately, eliminating the Supplyes of Emergency. Later on, with a greater control of the supplyes,
it will be possible to proceed to ulterior reductions.
Moreover the same costs of storing (energetic rent local, costs,
emergency, MdO) can be curtail to you if the reduction of the supplyes is meaningful.
The possibility to group a high
number therefore of purchasers in a species of trust, creates the possibility of dealing with the suppliers with greater power
of dealing. Consequently it is possible to define to advantage of the trust conditions which price, amount, times, quality
of the supply, than to the buying small they were not allowed. It would be had, in other words, that one that calls the buyer
aggregation.
To know the amounts and the necessities of warehouse in real time (DBMS), and in the course of the months
and years (DSS), to know lead Time of supplying of the supplies, allows to manage in more effective and efficient way the
warehouse.
Much difficult one to preview the fluctuations of the values of stock for small independent warehouses,
that is those of the single enterprises, but is relatively easier to have the control on the course of the district warehouse,
since it would be had to that to make with decidedly greater numbers.
If to this analysis of the historical series)
of the Virtual Warehouse had to be added to a precise and punctual control on the historical course (, function also of the goods type would have a remarkable
discouragement of the emergency supplyes ().
Finally, it must hold account of the fact that would be had to disposition,
for the customer of the Virtual Warehouse, a remarkable increase of the availability and of the possibility of chosen of
materials that otherwise would be much difficult one to have in warehouse normally.
If as an example a particular type
of store clerk had to be verified, than never it had not been preventivata, and that it has need of a special equipment,
there would be an elevated probability that it is instead reperibile in the district comprensorio through the MV.
Perhaps its owner has made available it because he uses it very rarely, and therefore hopes to gain some of the profit
rendering it available for other companies.
All this mechanism of rationalization but, cannot ahead be carried to
compartments ponds, but holding account of the sinergic effect of a total restructure, also it graduates them, but total
of the district structure and to put hand to the business processes (Business Process Reengineering).
Advantages
accessories to participating to a Virtual Warehouse are:
- to eliminate the overhead managerial;
- to diminish the structure costs;
- to safeguard the atmosphere reducing the
traffic generated from transports of along distance.
The adoption of the Virtual Warehouse, therefore, would allow to
reduce managerial expenses (overhead managerial). In fact, often account of the time that comes lost practically in the
search of the material, in its choice, its purchase, in its resupply is not kept. Without to speak about the ulterior time
that comes lost when also in a single one of this it is made "administrative" they come to create of the difficulties.
Often it must recommence all the process daccapo. To these died times, if of it they add other anchor, because they do
not come takes advantage of the modern means to you that the technology puts to disposition.
These times "of office"
are not free, but they come profumatamente pays to you "indirectly", because who takes care itself of these bureaucratic
passages cannot be operating and to dedicate to tasks more high added value.
If these problems came resolved, even with
the passage of the supplies to an only one outsourcer of supplyings, that it raises the acts to you from the bureaucratic
relationships with the suppliers, an immediate improvement of the supplies would be had, for times and quality, but also of
cost because all it is made of "passive" supplying they would come eliminated.
Important to emphasize as through
the Virtual Warehouse the result chased more tenaciously from the political of Inventory Management is caught up also, that
is the reduction of the investments in the warehouse without to compromise to the availability of the supplyes and therefore
without to risk to lose upgrades them orders.
In the following figure it comes graphically represented the minimal
amount of raw materials (expressed in value) that the traditional criteria of the Inventory Management must be present in
a warehouse managed second, under which it is not possible to come down without to compromise the productive continuity.
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hat means that, diminishing the amount of supplyes under the "indicated minimum cost" in the diagram, it would be possible
to obtain of the savings, to discapito, but, of crescents costs had to the loss of upgrades them sales. Reducing excessive
the supplyes, of other song, the enterprise would diminish its ability to produce to the amount and the quality of the goods
demanded from the market (optimal service).
In the diagram the curves of the operating costs of the warehouse are
represented (stockholding costs), that it turns out increasing to increasing of the availabilities of supplyes, and the
curve of the costs deriving from upgrades them loss of orders (potential lost sales costs), which has an opposite course
regarding the previous curve. The optimal choice will be determined from the minimal point of the curve of the cost total
(in red), determined from the sum of the costs of the others two.
The adoption of the Virtual Warehouse modification
radically the hardly illustrated outline.
Being the availability of the raw materials constantly assured in every moment
from the outsourcer of service, the costs of upgrade them lacked sales, subiranno a sure lessening, than it will be translate
in a crushing of the relative curve.
At the same time the curve of the
warehouse costs stretches to lower itself, in consequence of the fact that the amount of matters to store diminishes considerably,
just because is not more necessary that the single enterprise of the District physically stops all the types of matters necessary
to guarantee the productive continuity.
The combination of the movements of
the two curves involves the modification of the position of the curve of the cost total that will be lowered and it will be
moved towards right.
