The Association for the Logistic Development is the meeting point in the Valencia Region for logistics institutions, companies and professionals.

ADL is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to serve as an instrument for Research, Debate, Training and Innovation in the logistics field.

Facilmente collaborates with ADL supplying the following services:

Collaborative Routines: we deliver work sessions with ADL’s staff on a monthly basis, in the usage of collaborative tools, and integrate them in the business processes, while nurturing a collaborative culture.

“In these training sessions, all ADL staff keeps updated on the existence of collaborative tools; in this way, we can improve our internal communication in a very valuable way. Moreover, we have included these kind of workshops in all ADL’s Master Courses, because this collaboration is also very much needed among all the participants to help them deliver their cases and their end of Master dissertations; both the outcome and the process of better managing one’s own time is improved.” Eva Mira, General Manager at ADL.

European Scope R&D&I Projects: Facilmente provides this personalised support service for ADL in the preparation and execution of ADL European Projects. We are happy to share our knowledge with ADL and to help them closely, so that ADL can manage this deparment in an independent way in a short period of time.

“Thanks to Facilmente and their know how in the European Projects field, we have been able to participate as partners and even to coordinate and lead projects in consortia of more than 4 different countries. We have also launched the European Projects Department, with the mission to obtain European funds to support the International projects of our mermbers and associates.” Eva Mira, General Manager at ADL.

The Web 2.o phenomenon has led enormous changes to the way social relationships take place, but its effects have scarcely been transferred to companies, that still maintain -and even promote- a one way, hierarchical structure (from top to bottom) along their employees’ knowledge and information flows.

The pending task for companies in a hyper-connected world is to integrate new collaboration practices inside their management routines that allow them to be more efficient and productive.

The emerging offer of collaborative-type business tools (that can be included under the term Enterprise 2.0), whose main features are their low price and their compelling user experience, can result in companies’ “technological myopia” when making the implementation of such tools a mandatory objective, although in many cases not focused on achieving the company’s true strategic goals.

A proper implementation process has to take into account that the adoption of collaborative technologies is not just a technological issue: collaboration is not sustained by technology platforms, but through collaborative culture.

In an integrated process with the services included in the New Organisations business unit, Facilmente will help you choose those technological tools that best fit your business processes and, at the same time, will advise you and your company on how to integrate them with your already existing corporate software in an effective way.

Because only those companies that manage to successfully embed this new technological and collaborative phenomenon into their business practices will stand out from their competitors.

Do you want your company, organisation or institution to be one of them?

We help you integrate the collaboration habit inside your team. Our Collaborative Routines Service consists of a series of two-hour sessions to train your people in the execution of tasks in a collaborative way. In these sessions we use the most advanced collaborative management techniques and tools. With this service, we aim at building a habit of collaboration in your team in an interactive and compelling manner.

The main topics covered in these “training pills” are:

- Interactive communication tools.

- Internal collaborative communication.

- Ideas Management in collaboration.

- Prospective and trend analysis in a collaborative mode.

- Documents and reports Co-creation & collaborative editing.

- Shared Document Management.

- Collaborative Market Research.

- Project Management in Collaboration.

- International R&D projects preparation and execution in collaboration.

- Wiki-based Knowledge Management.

- Survey Management in collaboration.

- Collaborative Community management.

New corporate software implementation projects are not generally a positive experience for most companies.

From our point of view, this should not necessarily be like this, if your company counts, from the beginning of the process, on the independent advice and assessment of someone without a direct professional relationship with any of the software vendors.

In this way, the chosen solution will only depend on your specific needs.

Starting with a detailed analysis, validated by all the users in your company, and hence with the support of the whole organisation, we assist you in the selection of the most suitable software solution, through an assessment process that will pay attention to economic, functional, technical, as well as strategic criteria.

If you wish, we will support you in the awarding stage, and in the writing and supervision of the implementation agreements and contracts; this stage is a delicate one, but simple when you go through it hand in hand with someone who knows their secrets.

Additionally, we can also offer you our solution implementation services, as part of a team together with the selected software vendor but, at the same time, as an independent authorised voice between your own employees and the software developers.

Finally, we can assist you in the evaluation of the results and in the follow-up of the level of adoption of the new solution within your organisation.

Any logistics project, either oriented to improve an existing facility or to build of a new logistics centre, kicks off with the design of the most appropriate plant layout according the available space and should achieve the following objectives:

• Optimize production capacity.
• Reduce material handling costs.
• Providing optimal space for the various processes, people, materials and machinery.
• Increase flexibility.
• Ensuring the safety of workers.
• Facilitate maintenance activities.
• Give a good impression of the working facilities to visitors.

To accomplish all of them we use a series of visual techniques, based in the usage of predefined templates which reproduce the most common plant layouts: product (line layout), fixed position, process (functional layout) & combined (group layout).

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We analyse your operational processes along your entire supply chain and optimise them under the principles of simplification, reduction and removal of redundant activities, of those that do not add significant value to your business.

Starting from your flow diagrams, and through the usage of Internet-based collaborative tools, we identify the bottle necks that origin the biggest inefficiencies within your logistics chain.

Our approach is based on the method of successive approximations, seeking gradual and steady improvement, instead of aiming directly to “best” or “optimal” situations that in most cases, need to be accompanied by organizational changes can not be undertaken immediately but gradually.

In perfect sync with the Collaborative Networks and Collaborative Tools services, we design an overall optimization project in which your team feels motivated and proactive.

Building up a new logistics facility or modernising an existing one is a multifaceted project where the integration and appropriate coordination of the work from different logistics professionals is essential.

In general terms, all projects related to logistics infrastructures have to be addressed taking into account the following issues:

• Study on the physical flows (goods):
  • Static magnitudes analysis (stock & capacity).
  • Dynamic magnitudes analysis (inbound and outbound flow).
• Study of existing buildings.
• Analysis of the means for handling and storage.
• Study of information flows:
  • Study of existing IT systems.
  • Integration of new systems.
  • Analysis of peripheral / satellite applications.
  • IT Systems Architecture Design.
• Design and Vision of the resulting organisation.

You can count on our expertise, contacts, networking and knowledge to carry out your logistics projects with the highest quality standards.

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The ability to keep and spread internal (between employees) and external (with customers and suppliers) collaboration networks is a key asset in today’s new organisations.

We act as your Interim Collaboration Manager, while we advise you on the best way to create this stable position in your company.

Our mission will be to attract new ideas and create an open flow of innovation that encourages the creation of new products, services, processes and organizational methods.

We will identify the most suitable collaborative tools according to your specific needs, and will assist you in their implementation.

Future knowledge organisations will merge their Human Resources and Information and Communications Technologies Departments into a unique and integrative Human Systems Area.

• Because people and their interaction with ICTs are the gravitational centres of these new organisational structures.

• Because your company needs to count on and recruit talented professionals with hybrid profiles, and a mixture of  both “high-tech” and “high-touch” approaches.

• Because the biggest potential from enterprise technologies is achieved when people feel comfortable and responsible in using them.

With that purpose in mind, we help you and your employees accomplish this “empowering” process in a simple, easy and reflexive way.

We will work in joint efforts with your team to establish the processes, job descriptions, functions and competences of this new Area in your organisation.