Contract Logistics “Gino Marchet”

The Contract Logistics “Gino Marchet” Observatory, a vertical work team within Digital Innovation Observatories,that since 2011 analyses the third party Logistics sector, with the support of a broad and highly specialized community and the collaboration of Assologistica.

The Observatory studies the evolution of the Italian logistics outsourcing market in all its flavours, from strategic outsourcing to tactical outsourcing decisions. In addition to quantitatively measuring the phenomenon, the Observatory’s aim is to critically examine the sectors’ leading evolution elements and discuss on the role of innovation that the Contract Logistics supplier ecosystem can have in spreading excellence practices in logistics and supply chain management.

The Contract Logistics “Gino Marchet” Observatory aims for the following Research goals:

• quantitatively measure the Contract Logistics phenomenon (the amount of data is significant but the impression is that an overall view is still missing);
• critically examine sector evolution and innovation elements (business model, technologic innovation, process innovation, …);
• use a combination of quantitative research methods (financial statement analysis, sector analysis) and qualitative (case studies, surveys);
• develop a meaningful debate with managers from offering supply chain companies and services user companies with which to set the research, sharing issues and results. A Work Team has been established for this, consisting of about 70 Partner and Sponsor companies and by over 40 client companies.