The great dream of every Brazilian market is to increase competitiveness, technological development, the quality of what is produced or served, reducing costs and increasing revenues. This is a great challenge for the Brazilian market, and the transport companies are not behind, they represent a good share of the sale price.
Carriers and logistic operators operating with management operating systems achieve a more efficient result when they also have a human capital capable of managing fairly and reducing costs. Controlling the working hours of drivers, complying with current legislation, increasing fleet productivity, increasing working hours of equipment with a larger number of employees may be an interesting option for the company. Reduced administrative costs that are often overlooked because they believe the impact on costs is small, but over a period of time these values, while saved, could bring capacity building to the team which increases production capacity and intelligently reduces the costs.
Meeting the increasingly competitive market demands management excellence. In his book Reinvent Your Business by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson describes a way to simplify life within a company to focus on productivity, product and service excellence, and reduced bureaucracy. Speaking of reducing bureaucracy, we saw in the simplified examples in the book that focus on this item, it can bring much more significant gains than reducing the payroll, paying employees inadequately.
Logistic operations have a significant impact on Brazilian GDP. The sum of administrative, inventory and warehousing expenses represents around 12.5% of GDP. This percentage is around R $ 750 billion reais, a value that draws much attention and does not go unnoticed.
Many challenges need the will, intelligence and ability to point out simple solutions to ease or solve more complex problems such as infrastructure and skilled labor, critical points in this sector. It is the union of logistics operators, industry and government to expose the most diverse challenges and find solutions that can solve them.
With all the optimism of the Brazilian market it is necessary that the industry urgently implement solutions to optimize logistics, reduce costs and increase productivity and with this formula grow in revenue, in good results.