Group Services

 
The increasing importance of costs and logistics service levels within all the elements necessary to respond successfully to customer needs makes logistics itself a key factor in competitiveness.
 
In this context, in order to encourage a significant improvement at Group level, Finmeccanica has assigned Finmeccanica Group Services the role of defining and implementing, with the Group's companies, activities in 2 main areas:
 
1. The transport sector, in which Finmeccanica Group Services coordinates, at Group level, the contractual process for the various types of transport services (air, sea, road), by consolidating the volumes of all the Finmeccanica companies in Italy and the UK to guarantee the best service and price levels obtainable on the market;
 
2. The warehouse Logistics sector, in which Finmeccanica Group Services suggests that the Group's companies adopt more advanced methods of supply chain organization for the flows direct from the suppliers to Finmeccanica (Inbound process) and from the latter to the customer (Outbound process).
 
The progressive approach identified by Finmeccanica Group Services (see figure) provides for the models identified according to the specific needs of the companies to be implemented in collaboration with leading companies specializing in the logistics sector and capable of guaranteeing competitive excellence over time via an ongoing process of improvement in harmony with developments in technology and the market.
 
In particular, Finmeccanica Group Services provides the following activities at Group level:
 

• development of benchmarking studies and analyses within and from outside the Group to confirm the state of the art in terms of logistics processes;
  
• identification of areas of intervention or issues of common interest for the Group's companies;
  
• implementation of "pilot projects" with definition of objective KPI or SLA and auditing of the results obtained.