On June 7, Kasteel Sint-Michiels in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium, was the inspiring venue for Groenewout’s inspiation and networking session on ‘Logistics & E-commerce’. More then 60 attendees were treated three interactive presentations, plus there was plenty of time for networking. Dirk Becks started the afternoon with a presentation on automated order-picking concepts. Which automation-based logistics concepts are currently available? The primary focus was on market newcomers and new concepts that are currently being developed. Gert Hellemans...

Monday April 17 Groenewout participated in the Asset | Econometrics inhouse day.  Asset | Econometrics is the study association for all students studying the Bachelor Econometrics and Operations Research, or one of the corresponding Master programs Business Analytics and Operations Research, Econometrics and Mathematical Economics (EME), and Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Science at Tilburg University. Alain Beerens, Willem-Jan Eil and Rob Besten gave the EME-students a taste of supply chain consulting. The morning kicked off with a...

EPG Consulting and Groenewout are now looking to the future together and want to continue to push the European and international market in the area of supply chain consulting. from left to right: Marco Ehrhardt, President of EPG, Alain Beerens, Director Groenewout and Marcel Wilhelms, Managing Director EPG Consulting. from left to right: Mari van Kuijk (Management Team Groenewout), Marco Ehrhardt (President EPG), Alain Beerens (Director Groenewout), Wendel Dijker (Management Team Groenewout), Arthur Zondervan (Management Team...

From left to right: Joep Geurts, Willem-Jan Eil and Rogier Verhaar join the Groenewout team. Joep Geurts Joep Geurts has been working as a senior consultant at Groenewout since 1 December 2022. Joep started his career at a supplier of material handling solutions where, as a Sales and Simulation Engineer, he was responsible for the design, feasibility and sales of new mechanized material handling systems. He subsequently became Lead Outbound Process Design at bol.com, with responsibility for...

https://youtu.be/i7thuO3CC8I Logistics consultancy firm Groenewout recently organized its latest inspiration session in Den Hout, the Netherlands. Titled ‘Logistics & E-commerce’, the session was largely focused on logistics-related technological advancement. This is clearly a hot topic, since it attracted more than 70 attendees to what was yet another successful event. Automation is alive and kicking. The labor shortage and volume growth are just two of the factors that are more or less forcing companies to consider new,...

Bart van der Steen (left) and Peter Marijnissen joined Groenewout's team of consultants on September 1. Bart van der Steen On 1 September, Bart van der Steen started his graduation project within Groenewout’s Construction Management & Engineering team. He is studying engineering at the Avans University of Applied Sciences in 's-Hertogenbosch. The topic of his graduation project is smart-grid solutions for industrial estates with non-residential buildings (local solution). Mari van Kuijk and Peter Marijnissen are supervising Bart on...

On Friday 10 June, Groenewout employees headed to Ouddorp on the Dutch coast for the annual team outing. This year, it was a Beach Challenge. Divided into four groups, they spent the whole day battling it out for first place in a series of sports and games, ranging from beach volleyball and beach football to a ‘flying carpet’ race, tug-of-war and a blindfolded obstacle race. Great fun was had by all during this day of challenging...

The Supply Chain Innovations Event 2022 at Antwerp Expo was once again a successful celebration of the value chain organization. Jeroen Dekker, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Active Ants, took the audience on a journey exploring how automation and robotization seems to be the only sustainable way for both business and society to keep up with the sharp growth of e-commerce in logistics. Click here to download the presentation. About Active Ants Active Ants was founded in 2010 with...

source bol.com / november 2021 Imagine building a warehouse in just nine months – that’s exactly what this team from Bol.com has done! In view of Bol.com’s rapid growth, intelligent logistics infrastructure is crucial. Besides that, the end of the year is the busiest time for Bol.com’s logistics. By taking the lead, from design to realization, bol.com takes a very balanced and targeted approach to meeting the demand from customers and partners, both now and...

Etienne Teunissen joined Groenewout’s team of consultants on 1 November 2021. Before that, he worked as an engineer at a manufacturer of material handling equipment, where he was responsible for the design and realization of logistics systems. Within Groenewout, Etienne is mainly focusing on logistics feasibility studies and the design of highly mechanized warehouse operations such as e-commerce distribution centers, among other things. Etienne has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree...