The industry must stop focusing only on the cost of work and, to reduce expenses, penalize logistics. It has highlighted Davide Falteri, president of Federlogistica (Conftrasporti-Confcommercio) explaining that the attention has been paid "Focused for years only on the cost of labor of companies with an effect that in the medium and long term has proved to be depressive for the market; on the other hand - he denounced - an approach to logistics considered only as a cost to be cut and in any case to be outsourced without particular focus on its organization, rather than on logistics as an added value capable of determine the competitiveness of a finished product of Made in Italy".

"Now - Falteri underlined - it is time to turn the page and build together a platform for dialogue aimed at the success of the country, including manufacturing industries, distribution and logistics operators. Through this dialogue more which through often sterile battles on duties and bureaucracy, can the winning formula". "Today," he added, "the The weight of logistics on production chains is often undervalued: from FMCG to e-commerce, the variability is high and can affect sensitive measurement of the final value of products. However, limiting oneself To read logistics only in terms of cost means losing the opportunity to transform it into a strategic element for the growth. In a country still strongly characterized by production fragmentation and poorly integrated logistics, It is urgent to change our approach."

"Logistics - continued the president of Federlogistica - is an invisible network that connects the entire world, but not only: it allows you to know exactly where the goods are going, even beyond the world of containers. Modern shipping, always more traceable and intelligent, provide critical data to understand target markets and build marketing strategies territorial marketing for the benefit of the industrial system. Thank you logistics – especially when it is interoperable, interconnected, self-regulating and governed by just-in-time systems Powered by artificial intelligence - we can redefine networks production and distribution, making them more efficient and Resilient. This approach, already adopted by the big players global markets, represents an essential competitive lever to strengthen Italian exports and, at the same time, to guarantee the import of of raw materials and components of our system manufacturing".

According to Falteri, it is time to set up a permanent national direction composed of operators in the sector logistics, but also by the main representatives of the groups that operates diligently, continuously and scientific in the definition of the country's logistical strategies. "We need," he explained, "a place of coordination and vision, which dialogues on a permanent basis with the cluster of companies, with the world of logistics in a broader sense, and with the entire supply chain: maritime, rail, land, air, shipping, integrated logistics, shipowners, terminal operators, airport operators and industry, which must cease to be a counterpart. The term "logistics" is no longer a function, but a global vision, a complex network that goes systematizing".