More and more intense competition imposes the firms to build a solid competitive advantage in all the business areas, inclusive those logistics.

The logistics, in fact, is a fundamental lever to achieve results such as:

- reduction of the costs

- improvement of the service to the customers.

The Professional Associate Study effects projects of optimization of the logistic system.

The projects depart from a strategic vision of the firm: the optimization, in fact, is not only sought within the firm, but also in the relationship with the customers, the suppliers and the lenders of logistic services.

 Circles of the projects:

- analysis and redesigning of the service to the customers

- organization and management of factories

- logistic management of sales points

- management of orders

- management of escorts

- optimization of transport

- logistic outsourcing

Operating for years with firms of production and distribution and with suppliers of logistic services, the Professional Associate Study has set a method of work based on the integrated vision of the logistic range.

The projects are developed in four phases:

 METHOD:

1. Analysis of the actual situation

- environment of reference of the firm

- business strategy

- the customers' demands

- trials, human resources, technology

- logistic costs

Analysis is also developed through the comparison with other enterprises in a logic of benchmarking.

2.Individualization of the critical elements and of the opportunities

- elements of incoherence

- possibility to improve the service

- possibility of recovery of efficiency

3.Planning of innovative solutions

- feasibility

- analysis costs / benefits

4. Support for the realization of the solutions

- definition of the plan of realization

- support to the management of the change

- support to possible outsourcing