Bouwcenter Nobel  sells and distributes building materials from 4 regional warehouses in the Netherlands. The customers are construction companies, both small (local) and large (national). Customers can pick up the goods themselves at one of the regional warehouses, or ask Nobel to deliver the goods. Opportunities At the beginning of the study, there were 5 local

APM Terminals on Maasvlakte II is a state-of-the-art automated facility, open since 2015. APMT has its own maintenance and repair organization for all equipment. To support this, most spare parts are kept on stock locally. The parts are split into Consumables (that are operated via a Kanban system) and Spare Parts. The Parts are...

NINE & Co is the parent company of 6 brands: Noppies, Supermom, Queen Mum, Esprit for mums, Imps&Elfs and Alvi. All experts in the field of pregnancy, babies and children up to six years of age.​   Opportunities Nine & Co is experiencing an increase in warehouse costs as a percentage of sales. ​ Furthermore, Nine &...

Marel Poultry offers a range of advanced machines and systems designed for poultry meat processing. Located in Boxmeer (NL) they have a production location where machines are assembled and shipped to their customers worldwide. Due to growth, the current warehouse has become too small. Opportunities Marel had the opportunity to buy a lot of land next...

Mosadex offers optimal care and services to more than 800 affiliated independent pharmacies, 500 Service Pharmacies, 250 healthcare institutions, 300 drugstores and more than 11 million (healthcare) consumers in the Netherlands. Opportunities Mosadex has the ambition to: Optimize pharmaceutical logistics, creating efficiencies in the pharmacies, Through this efficiency better serve our patients with care and digital...

The GNT Group is an independent, family-owned company focused on long-term success and the sustainable development of truly natural coloring solutions. This makes them a trusted partner to a growing number of food and beverage companies worldwide that want to meet the increasing consumer demand for visually outstanding natural products with clean and clear labels.​ Opportunities Due to continuous growth in the US...

BVB Substrates in De Lier, the Netherlands is part of Kekkilä-BVB, one of Europe’s leading companies in professional growing and the largest producer of horticultural peat. They provide products and services for the professional growers and home gardeners, landscapers, horticultural raw material customers and bedding peat customers worldwide. Weel known brands in the Nordics are Kekkilä Garden and Hasselfors Garden and in Central Europe, Jardino and Florentus.​ Opportunities Together with Groenewout, BVB...

HVC is a waste processing company with facilities in Flevoland, Noord- and Zuid-Holland. The company is the largest non-commercial waste collector in the Netherlands. Opportunities HVC’s existing spare parts warehouse in Dordrecht is outdated and meeting storage capacity limits. ​ Solution Site visit and data analysis to determine current volumes and processes; Interview sessions with stakeholders to determine...

  Bleckmann is a LSP primary operating in fashion and lifestyle logistics. Opportunities Bleckmann needed support in responding to Unilever’s warehouse tender for the Benelux region. To advise Unilever on the optimal distribution network for their 3 product groups: Food & Refreshments Home Care and Beauty Personal Care in the Benelux region. These 3 product groups were outsourced...

Atlas Copco Airpower at Wilrijk is running an AutoStore implementation, and they have to make design decisions already about potential automated packing solutions for the future. The idea is to start manual, but to transform this flow to a partial/full packing automation solution with a print & apply concept. Atlas Copco wants to investigate...