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White Paper Optimizing inventory capital

Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) have undeniably made a great contribution to improving the professionalization of inventory management. However, these concepts are focused specifically on the last stock echelon of the end product. The inventory planning of the upstream stock in raw materials and semi-finished products is often regarded...

The design of a Logistic Support System

Cancelled flights, delayed trains or a fall out of electricity or internet are all events that are very unpleasant, costly and in the meanwhile inevitable. To prevent failure of capital goods such as aircrafts, trains, turbines and servers preventive maintenance is used. In the case that a capital good fails, corrective maintenance is used...

A Balanced location selection

At the seminar of Nederland Distributie Land (NDL) on November 1st, 2011, Groenewout presented the results of a benchmark study on the optimal location for a European Distribution Center. Alain Beerens co-presented with Matthijs Weeink, Partner at Investment Consulting Associates A multi disciplinary view on the optimal location of your European Distribution Centre: Chief Financial Officer:...

How E-retailing can influence your logistics?

How E-retailing as a new sales channel can impact the logistic component of your business? A website with up-to-date information is the basics and important, but the logistics network supporting is crucial! The idea that “One size fits all””, or in other words that one fixed logistics network model is applicable for all types...

Activity-BasedCosting and management in the supply chain

Independent of the economical climate, there is an increasing necessity for companies to have transparency of cost in general and insight in the aspects influencing these costs. The world is getting smaller and competition is growing. The objective of the white paper is to provide understanding on how activity-based costing or even better activity-based management...

The European distribution network paradigm

Over the last fifteen years, European distribution structures have been evolving as companies pursue opportunities provided by both EU harmonization legislation and IT technology advancements; i.e., company-wide ERP, VMI & collaborative networking transparency, etc. This begs the question as to whether standard but distinct distribution strategies (number and location of warehouses) exist for the different...

Outsourcing, the medicine against Supply Chain headaches?

Today many companies in various industry sectors, like the fast moving consumer goods, electronics, automotive and spare parts, focus on core activities to maintain and strengthen their competitive advantage. The non-core logistics activities are often outsourced to logistics service providers. It has been estimated that about 40 percent of the global logistics is outsourced. Especially...