Logistics manager: opinions and advice from 4 professionals

Corso per Responsabile della Logistica

Niraj Ambani, head of logistics and supply chain of Reliance Industries, the second largest industrial group in India.

"In the last 5 years the role of logistics has changed a lot, both within large industrial groups like ours, and in smaller companies".

accademia del lavoro diventare addetto alla logistica jpg“The growth of competition and the expansion of the scenario, from national to continental to global, has brought to the fore the role of logistics as a factor capable of increasing the efficiency of the entire production process and therefore the profitability of the company. Now when we use the term “logistics” we no longer refer to a branch of business operations, but to an element of the general business strategy ”.

 

Alberto Lichene, logistics manager of the Italian branch of Staples, a US multinational office supplies company.

“A logistics manager in a company like ours is responsible for approximately 10-11% of the company's total costs. One of the characteristics that distinguishes me is the attention to data analysis. Although I believe that experience is fundamental, I am used to making decisions that are supported by numbers, in order to be able to check the efficiency of the procedures adopted and, if necessary, improve them ".

“The main cost of logistics, and the third business cost, is that of transport; preceded only by the cost of the product and the cost of marketing. To reduce the cost of transport we act in two ways:

- on the tariff, making tenders first at European level, then southern Europe and then Italian;

- on methods, therefore for example on reducing the specific volume of shipments to get a discount on transport, or avoiding stock outages ".

“The main KPIs we consider at Staples are the following:

- Order Line Fill Rate, i.e. the number of customer order lines that can be processed immediately;

- a productivity indicator, such as for example Lines withdrawn / Hours / Man;

- a very characteristic indicator of the companies of the Staples group which is the Perfect Order. In practice, we measure as a percentage, on a weekly basis, how many orders the customer receives in a perfect way, in form, in quantity, in quality, in time ”.

 

Ferdinando De Caro, general manager of Tgroup, a company that is one of the major Italian players in the field of logistics.

“When we talk about logistics today we mean an advanced service that has customer satisfaction as its focus and the entire world as its horizon. Today the logistics director must have a 360-degree vision capable of ranging from warehouse operations to knowledge of the levers of the global economy ”.

“A good logistics manager can't just manage everything from the office, working only on documents. He has to go to the field, enter the warehouses, walk in the interports, talk to the transporters and deal with those who move the goods ".

“In recent years we have witnessed an ever greater specialization of logistics, which has now reached such a level of complexity that it can no longer be managed directly by companies. This function is increasingly outsourced, so companies are free to focus on their core business and product competitiveness ".

 

Andrea Payaro, IT engineer with a PhD in Management Engineering. He has been dealing with Supply chain management for over 15 years.

“In this area, the so-called emerging countries are learning very quickly. They are benefited by studying the mistakes that others have made, especially us Italians ”.

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“For a company, logistics is a cost, but also an opportunity. Choosing one type of packaging or packaging rather than another can lead to completely different costs, which affect the final price of the product and its competitiveness in the market ”.

"With the great diffusion of e-commerce, the system has become increasingly complex as there is less and less time to be able to design the right distribution with the correct documentation".

 

In addition to being a very interesting and stimulating job, the logistics manager is also one of the professions most requested by the market. Anyone interested in having detailed information on our course can go to This Page.

 

Sources:

Tgroupspa.com
Logisticaefficiente.it

Winemeridian.com

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