L'influenza della pianificazione infrastrutturale Italiana sulle scelte logistiche di una grande azienda

In a complex situation like the one that Italy and Europe are going through, transports and infrastructures development is one of the key elements to the national economic recovery. The transports topic is not certainly a new theme in terms of investments, employment, incomes and taxation, but the current economic environment, however, characterized by very stringent budget constraints and limited resources, suggested to use a new paradigm of reference and a new frame starting to define the role and responsibilities of the different actors involved in the process. Especially in transports it is essential that coordination between policy makers, managing entities and private companies is excellent to ensure, at all levels, a network of connections efficiently, reliably, and consequently competitive. It is necessary to abandon the models that make reference to the only quantitative indicators and use an approach that considers the efficiency of the infrastructure and allows selecting the interventions really useful for the companies operating in Italy. It is not the number of terminals or the network kilometers that determines the efficiency of a system, but the ability to act in a coordinated way, reducing the lead time and ensuring a high level of interconnection and reliability. In recent years, despite a favourable geographical position, the Italian logistics system has gradually lost market shares and today it is struggling to establish itself as a international relevant pole. In fact, nowadays, the Italian companies, due to the inefficiency of transports system, suffer an estimated competitiveness gap of ¿12 bn that drives many domestic companies to choose foreign hubs for handling their loads. It seems clear that in the absence of a comprehensive planning, rather than the creation of the conditions for a revival of the national logistics, often the result is an unnecessary waste of resources and investments. On the contrary it should carefully identify priority interventions based on an analysis of demand and on the concrete needs of services users. In this sense, the development of the transport and logistics system cannot ignore the needs of the Italian industrial companies, their specialization and their degree of international integration. For these reasons, the analysis reported in this document attempts to address the issue of transport and logistics in this direction, starting from the needs of a big Italian company and subsequently examining some aspects of infrastructure and management framework of reference, and then trying to identify some problematic issues and potential remedies: ¿ Chapter 1 provides an overview of the environment in which the research is carried out with the aim to provide to the reader the basic elements for understanding the macro FCA structure and specifically the organization of the FCA SC based in Turin Mirafiori; ¿ Chapter 2 explains how the SC Design Vehicle Line and Platform works, analyzing specifically how it manages the costing process, a crucial first step in defining the logistics flow, and how this fits into the most extensive production process; ¿ Chapter 3 describes how the logistics process continues in the FCA Network Engineering and what are the aspects and variables that are taken into account to define the flow routing; ¿ Chapter 4 shows the current situation of flows that involve FCA in Italy and deepens the Inbound flows currently in force; ¿ Chapter 5, finally, provides some assumptions on how the flows managed by FCA could change over the next years taking into account the main Italian and European projects in the infrastructure field, examining, on one hand, risks and limitations of these projects and, on the other, trying to provide some corrections.