A survey designed and executed by the website specialized in market research, Alimarket confirmed that 50.4% of Spanish companies in the consumer goods segment (production, distribution, hospitality, packaging, etc.) will make investments in the immediate future to improve and update their supply chain.
As Alimarket explains, the results show that actions aimed at improving logistics, both at the management level and in terms of dedicated economic investment, have increased enormously in recent times.
According to the website, one of the factors that has energized this situation is the search for more efficient processes and infrastructure that helps to face the current crisis that Europe is going through.
To the question of whether the current economic situation has influenced your company to increase actions aimed at improving the logistics area, 81.4% of the managers surveyed answered in the affirmative.
According to the results of the survey, most of the decisions around logistics optimization have to do with a review and redesign of the strategy: 46.3% of them involve a reform of the logistics strategy in general and 49.3% more specifically that of transport. By more specific areas, improvements are being made in the supply areas (41.24%); distribution and delivery of goods (39.4%); order preparation (38.6%) and storage of finished product (34.67%). Meanwhile, other tasks that are also demanding new attention are coordination between departments -logistics, production and commercial- (37.9% of cases); demand planning (30.3%); environmental and energy improvements (18.9%); as well as media outsourcing, adaptation to e-commerce and reverse logistics.
The results will be presented in their entirety during the Alimarket Logistics Mass Consumption Meeting that will be held on May 23 in Madrid.
