The Group

The competitive scenario of Aerospace and Defence has required for some years that Group companies provide their customers not only products but increasingly full service solutions.  Customers no longer buy products rather flying hours. Over time, this is causing companies to see Logistics not as a cost but more as a resource in which to invest and make money with good post-sales service.

In this context, Finmeccanica Group Services fosters continuous supply chain improvement actions at the Group level, from inbound processes to warehouse management through the use of the latest technologies from RFID to “voice picking”,  up to the collaboration, when requested, in post-sales process management.  In particular, this support is highlighted by purchasing marketing, the search for the best transport and logistics market players in order to guarantee companies the highest levels of quality and best prices obtainable in the market, through the continuous verification of market performance and trends in terms of prices and freight line volume with the aim of always calling for tenders in the periods in which prices are the most competitive and the market most receptive.

In the transport sector (air, road, sea, outsized, courier), framework agreements that contractually cover all service types are negotiated and monitored. Whenever necessary, companies are provided with support in their specific negotiations with shared suppliers.

In the logistics sector, preferential partners have been identified, among which Fata Logistic Systems, a Group company with which Finmeccanica Group Services has engaged in intense Group governance. The objective of this activity is to identify the best practices and adopt the most advanced supply chain organization models, among which the following: transport management, warehouse automation, process management.  Among these, an important Group Project called “Routing Center” was developed.

The Routing Center is a center for the convergence and clearing of the transport requests from several companies. The objective is the rationalization of transport by constantly working on “demand” as well as prices, through the full loading of vehicles, freight consolidation and trip optimization. In addition, it allows obtaining the best transport prices from the market by negotiating in real time, and guaranteeing, through the Transport Management System (TMS) information application, the traceability and monitoring of all operations.