Patrick Van Droogenbroeck

• Leading the European Distribution Center in Stuttgart to perform as planned
• 40.000 SKU, turnover more than 1.400M, avarge of 17.000 Orderlines per day, 5 picks per Orderline, 320 to 500 FTE in the warehouse.
• Production part in the warehouse with over 100 FTE
• optimizing all the 3PL warehouses in Germany, Poland, Netherlands, France and UK
• coach the site manager, operations managers to lead the given plant correctly according the demands of TTI.
• Leading tendering for new locations in Europe: from sourcing and negotiation to decision-making and contract drafting. Also responsible for integration within the group for administration, IT, SLAs, KPIs, invoicing, etc.
• Monitored staff performance and developed improvement plans on local and group level.
• Integration new IT systems like packing tool, automatisation, ...

• fully accountable for P&L and operational performance of all the outsourced operations within the area: Sourcing, price settings for customers, setup and startup, integration withing Maersk, point of escalation
• Business development & vendor management.
• Identification and & drive of new outsourcing opportunities

• Global group supply chain Manager: purchaising raw materials, manufacturing, logistics, transport and distribution.
• For Northern Europe ( Benelux, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Canada and US) als the responsability for Sourcing new oppertunities, Customer Servic, Order Management, B2B and Retail Sales, acountability.
• Optimizing the structure and processes of our warehouses in whole Europe.
• One of the way to do so, was to find a standard way for the logistic process.
• Organize the implementation of new customers and to help existing customers how to reduce their logistics costs
• My 3 PL partners appreciated my knowledge how warehouse can/should work and that I understood, that the collaboration should be an win for both parties, in order to be able to create a long term relationship.
• Du to this new structure, the company reduces the costs for logistics with more than 2 Million Euro each year and setting up a standard way to work, makes it easy to implement a new market if they decide to do so.

• responsible for the start up of a new logistics provider: for searching the correct location for the warehouse and offices, selection of the ERP system (Navision) with integrated WMS, search for customers, employees and transport companies, ... in order to arrive to a revenue of 1.000.000€ per month.
• To reach this, I had to select people in my network, who had the experience to do the job in a part of Europe. All people, including myself, hat to work not only on the planning but also as a sales, in order to receive more work from existing customers due to good service and the knowledge what we could do for them for existing customers and customers that we found on Teleroute en Timocom.
• Build up the warehouse from nothing: using the WMS module in Navision to make locations in the warehouse and make the structure in the warehouse in order to have a good internal flow, using the space we had in a optimized way, calculate how many racks are needed, use the correct forklifts, ...

• providing training to planning people and drivers

- let the people drive some days as co-pilot with a truck so they would understand the practical issues drivers have on the road and with customers

- give them the knowledge of driving and rest time laws

- give them the same formation as drivers receive for the code 95 formation

- learn them how to use the TMS Transics that is able to help them to make a planning

- training to drivers for CODE 95 and other important trainings like Fuel consumption

• Turned a loss‐making department into a profitable department.
• Responsible for all transports to and from all countries: Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Ireland and the Scandinavia.
• Responsible for price agreements with the customers, transporters, distributors and the warehouses I was using.
• Using Navision dinamics to optimize warehouse and distribution.

• optimizing the warehouse structure for raw materials and finished products
• demand and managing raw materials

• All operational activities as Supply Chain, production planning, personnel planning, ... for 2 warehouse sites with more than 5.000 SKU
• implementing new customers as Kichenaid and SD Worx from reception of goods and storage till fulfillment with pick and pack and delivery to the customers.
• change management: due to optimizing the warehouse flows, change the way of working in the warehouse to reach 100% stock re-ability.
• Introduction of working with scans for in- and outbound.
• optimizing the WMS module in CERM and AS 400
• introducing KPI on the floor tho show results and performance, learning employees to use 5S, motivate people to come forward with proposals for improvement themselves, ...
• Leading together with team leaders more than 130 people, white and blue collar.

• Leading a transport company with 25 admin employees and more than 130 truck drivers.
• Because of a good organisation and service, the number of trucks has been expanded from 23 to 120.
• Operational organizing of 2 warehouses for more than 15.000 sqm each
• Negotiating with customers to optimize the planning and capacity of the cars (final responsibility of the department).
• helping to develop the TMS Transics in oder to be able to use the system correctly

• All deliveries of liquid nitrogen in Germany plus liquid argon within Europe
• Responsible for approximately 80 drivers and 600 customers for matching customer demand to production capacity
• Won twice the prize for best service/optimizations of all Logistics departments within Europe
• Never set a client without product.
• At the end, company moved to Barcelona Spain

• Production company of fiberboard where I had to optimize the whole logistic flow.
• As the company lost a lot of money while good could not be found the moment we had to load them, my team and me building up a structured warehouse to find all parts of the goods when they have to be shipped in containers and trucks. For this, I made introduction of warehouse locations and scanning of the goods.
• I had to change the mindset of the employees in the warehouse and production, so that the new structure had support among the people who have to run it.
• renegotiating transport prices
• Reduced the cost for logistics with more than 10% during the first 6 months

• temporary position due to reorganization and closure of a large part of the factory
• Responsible for all transport activities in Europe for Gates Europe, including preparing in and export documents
• made new profile at the chamber of commerce in Belgium, so that all goods produced in the factory, would have the mark "made in Belgium"
• Negosiation all contracts for Transport and Logistics in Europe
• organization of the relocation of the factory from Belgium to Poland

• responsible for all in and export to all German speaking countries and Scandinavia

• International Truck driver
• went to whole Europe: from Finland to Greece, Mallorca and Grand Canaria, UK or Ireland to Czechelovakia
• Driving curtain trailers, temperature controled trailer, frozen goods, Silo, Tanker Truck with and without ADR, exceptional transport, Coil Transport, ...

• Leading several gastronomy: 2 disco, 5 Bistro and 1 restaurant
• full P&L responsebitlity
• organising events

• startet as driver
• help on planning
• planning of trucks for over 300 markets for Schlecker