Description ERIKS is one of the largest industrial suppliers in the world. ERIKS focusses on high end technology items for the industrial market. ERIKS has several logistic and service centers in the Benelux and Germany. Opportunities ERIKS has recently entered a new facility in Ede, where the former locations of Eindhoven, Almelo and Ede are combined (all plastics). ERIKS is facing issues with stock management, productivities and order leadtime. Therefore ERIKS has asked Groenewout to perform a...

Description Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is an American manufacturer and marketer of prestige skincare, make-up, fragrance and hair care products. The company owns a diverse portfolio of brands, distributed internationally through (travel) retail channels and E-commerce, and has its headquarters in New York City. Opportunities For the last decade Estée Lauder’s sales has continuously increased with double digit numbers. As a result, the workload within several departments like Customer Service, Planning & Shipping, Transportation increased significantly. Estée Lauder...

Description Holland Pharma is a wholesale company for food, supplements, body care, natural medicines, related medical products and a wide assortment of organic and gluten free products. NDS is the organization behind the DA drugstores. Holland Pharma and NDS are both daughter companies of the Mosadex Group. Opportunities Groenewout had already performed a feasibility study for the 2 operations in 1 location. As a follow up project, after the feasibility study, Holland Pharma / NDS requested Groenewout to perform the...

Description stichd is a daughter company of Puma (former Dobotex) and has the European license to design, produce and sell socks and bodywear for PUMA, Tommy Hilfiger, HEAD, LEVI’s and is the trackside retail partner for Formula-1 racing. Opportunities Although stichd has moved to a new site a few years ago, further growth urged stichd to consider automation. Groenewout led the design and business case analyses, resulting in PUMA to support investing in goods-to-person technology. Groenewout has...

Description BVB-substrates in De Lier, is part of Kekkilä-BVB and produces substrates (growing media) for plants in the professional and retail consumer market. Opportunities BVB-substrates needed to implement a new logistics concept in De Lier which improved the storage capacity and storage conditions to meet the seasonal peek and market demand. To allow for the growth a warehouse was designed and realized, which included a conveyor connection with the production area, multi layer storage, shuttle operated drive in...

Description Monsanto (part of Bayer Monsanto) is an agricultural company helping farmers, large and small, grow food more sustainably. From seed to software, to fiber and fuel, they are developing tools to help growers protect natural resources while providing nourishment to the world. Opportunities Monsanto was building a new production facility in the village of Pochuiky. The plant will produce bags of corn seeds and will have a +20.000m2 warehouse to facilitate the logistics activities related to...

  Description Hydrowear is a Dutch family business with the head office and warehouse located in Emmen. They design, develop and manufacture workwear with different certifications, degrees of fire resistance, degrees of water resistance, high visibility, etcetera. Opportunities Because of the current, and expected, double digit growth per year, Hydrowear bought an adjacent land plot to expand their warehouse. Hydrowear asked advise on the layout of the combined warehouses. In addition also all processes were reviewed to optimize...

Description Holland Pharma is a wholesale company for food, supplements, body care, natural medicines, related medical products and a wide assortment of organic and gluten free products. NDS is the organization behind the DA drugstores. Holland Pharma and NDS are both daughter companies of the Mosadex Group. Opportunities Holland Pharma and NDS have a huge combined assortment. Groenewout was asked to perform a feasibility study for the 2 operations in 1 location. Solution To define their new layout and logistic concept...

  Description UnityMedia Kabel BW (UMKBW) is part of Liberty Global. Liberty Global services 11 million customers in 6 European countries a.o. the customer brands Virgin Media, Telenet and UPC. In Germany UMKBW delivers converged video, broadband and communication services. Opportunities To be able to deliver the services a network is required including the network equipment like routers, switches and other equipment.  This equipment is returned and refurbished at the end of the contract period or when broken....

  Description Monsanto (part of Bayer Monsanto) is an agricultural company helping farmers, large and small, grow food more sustainably. From seed to software, to fiber and fuel, they are developing tools to help growers protect natural resources while providing nourishment to the world. Opportunities Monsanto was building a new production facility in the village of Pochuiky. The plant will produce bags of corn seeds and will have a +20.000m2 warehouse to facilitate the logistics activities related to...