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CHAPTER 3: THE PROCESS OF SUPPLYING LIKE SERVICE:
CASE UNITEC

3.4.2 Outsourcing

We have already observed as the constitution of a Virtual Warehouse demands the sharing of warehouse infrastructures.
Any shape of sharing demands, but, the passage of some powers (decisional and economic) from the single enterprises to a governmental authority of the entire group.
In order to plan and to manage a district net it is necessary that two conditions are come true:

  1. to control and to manage the net processes;
  2. to shape, to select, and to hold assets the multiple logons between inner organizational units and external enterprises (net logons);
  3. to develop together: a hierarchical structure, a market, an informative system, a logistic system, a system of communication, a culture, a political system;
  4. to develop a system of government 39 .
The operation of the Virtual Warehouse can be assured solo from an external subject, the provider of services, which it has the visibility of the total supplyes and, through systems informed and managerial procedures dedicated to us, manages the warehouses calculating the necessities of the companies and the levels of redundancy of materials to the inside of the district.
In the choice of outsourcing, as I have asserted in the first one understood it, a role of primary importance plays the adoption of the ICT.
In fact the electronic instruments allow one greater facility of coordination between the integrated actors of the Virtual Warehouse with the provider external, and the adoption of collaborative relations times to pull down the transaction costs.
However, the esternalizzazione of the purchase procedures in a generalized manner, is conditioned in particular way from the strategic of the material or member and from its specificity.
For this the idea of Virtual Warehouse is more easy practicable, in the cases in which the raw materials to provision or to share in the warehouse it does not possess an elevated specificity (as they as an example do not possess it the commodities) for the activity of the company in issue, and it does not represent a input fundamental for the creation of value and competitive advantage towards the direct contenders of district.
It can be asserted, as an example, that the innovative concept of Virtual Warehouse is easy applicable for the supplyes of those indirect materials, that they can be classifies to you like Materials, Repairs, and Operations Goods (MRO).
Materials from the low specificity for the enterprises of the district, that they are characterizes you from I use uncertain, and legacy strongly to dynamics of market question, and for this, allow the companies to benefit totally of the concept of exclusion of the contemporary.


3,4,3 Entrepreneurial abilities

The several circumstances that have carried to the phase of recess of these years, have taught to us as not always the innovation finds fertile land around to if.
Often in fact, permangono some circumstances in which it is too much legacies to hierarchical relations of power are to the inside of the company, than between several the inner actors to the supply chain.
An optical of short period, capacity ahead from logic of the survival year for year, badly is conciliated with an organizational innovation like that one of the Virtual Warehouse.
The same thing happens in a generalized manner, for all the organizational innovations, in which it comes underrated the necessity of an approach, programmatico of along period, and integrated between more partner of the Supply Chain with it objects to you common, for the attainment of one more strong competitiveness than it arranges.
In a market in which the competition it goes progressively increasing itself, it becomes of fundamental importance the innovation.
Unfortunately the cases are not rare in which today, entire industrial districts, or other agglomerations above all in the manifacturing field are looked at, in serious difficulty in front of the been left over one of the competitiveness of production in other underdeveloped nations, like China.
E' in these cases that an innovation as the Virtual Warehouse can play a fundamental role for the competitiveness of cost of the arrange-district.
More in a generalized manner, it goes felt the necessity to join the efforts, since, even if the advantages deriving from localization go slowly flattening because of the development of the computer science, sussiste technologies anchor cospicuo a patrimony of acquaintances that can be amplified.
The Information and Communication Technology, cross and delight of traditional entities like the districts, can constitute therefore, a resource key for the sharing of these acquaintances, through instruments advances you of management of the Supply Chain, like the Corporate Portals or, more better still the systems than ERP, of which I have already spoken in the previous pages.
The idea of Virtual Warehouse, therefore like all the of outsourcing procedural, or better than outsourcing administrative, involves the renunciation from part of the entrepreneur of part of its sovereignty.
This happens difficultly in the systems in which it is stretched to conserve a rigid and hierarchical organization, founded on force ratios with the own suppliers and/or customers, than does not offer space to the collaboration.
a closed entrepreneurial behavior of this type is most times synonymous of insufficient abilities, and a counter-productive optical too much tied to the result of short period.


 


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