The logistics outsourcing in Italy slow to take off: our country is bringing up the rear with only 15% of the logistics outsourced activities, excluding transportation. In the rest of the continent, in fact, the percentages are much higher, with values ranging from 39% in Britain and 21% in Spain. Moreover, if in Europe the trend shows a positive growth in value, in our country stood at unchanged levels.

Gruppo La Meridiana operates in the outsourcing sector in Italy and offers companies the best solutions to outsource one or more of the classes effectively and efficiently.

Why in Italy the logistics outsourcing is not taking off?

According to some market studies and surveys conducted by Gruppo La Meridiana, the main reason of this delay is the mentality of companies and entrepreneurs. In fact, the economic fabric of our country consists mainly of small and medium enterprises, that prefer to have short and unstructured relationships with equally small businesses, rather than to establish business with large companies in the sector.

This happens because one of the biggest limits derives from the fear of the companies to delegate important organization and functional and productive process stages.

The strategic importance of the logistics of a company is well known and they are feared that the confidential information can be disclosed outside, resulting in damage to the turnover.

In this way is possible to read the data for the outsourced logistics in Italy, because if all logistics processes are outsourced to 15%, with regard to transport you reach a much higher value, almost 60 %, in line with European values.

In the companies that, instead, rely to outsourcing of one or more processes of the logistics, is important to emphasize as are present numerous problems of organization.

The trend in Italy, in fact, is to fragment the suppliers, using of two or more external parts services, when is possible to entrust everything to a single provider. Besides that from an economic point of view, in fact, this choice turns out to be wrong in a perspective of strategic and organizational convenience.

Break up the logistics processes, it means having to deal with two or more suppliers, which in most cases do not communicate with each other but use the company as a intermediary. Storage of goods from a supplier and transported to by another, for example, complicate a process which in itself would be simple.

Another critical point of the externalization of Italian logistics sector is represented by the contractual phase, conducted more often than in immature and not in a very functional way.

Indeed, if the Italian companies do utmost to define and explain in detail how they should be provided the service, neglect to indicate what are the objectives they seek to achieve.

This is a big limit on communication between the parties, because the supplier, which is presumed to be the industry expert, certainly has the additional knowledge that allow him to reach the goal set by the customer in a better way, optimizing time and resources, without have to stick to an operational scheme made by a person who might not have all the knowledge of the case.

Gruppo La Meridiana supports its customers in all phases of outsourcing, supporting each choice, and helping to make the best decisions. Not everyone knows that by taking advantage of outsourcing services, is possibile to have a saving of about 20% on business costs on an annual basis. If you want to grow your business and be competitive in the market, entrusted to the experts of qualified, that will guide you to success.