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July 2010
Phidan exhibits at Prologistics 2010 at Brussels Expo

Phidan will be present at Prologistics 2010 at Brussels Expo which will take place on 29 and 30 September.

Do not hesitate to contact Iris Serré on 016 48 11 11 in case you would appreciate an individual welcome by one of our partners at our booth nr. B010 during the event.

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March 2010
Phidan exhibits at Supply Chain World

Phidan will be welcoming you at booth 1 on 24 March 2010 at Supply Chain World, Brussels Expo.

Do not hesitate to contact Iris Serré on 016 48 11 11 in case you would appreciate an individual welcome by one of our partners during the event.

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February 2010

Phidan wins at the Transport & Logistics Awards 2010

Phidan was the winner of two bronze medals in the categories HR Project of the Year 2010 and Logistics Project of the Year 2010. Organised by MMM Business Media, the event took place on 11 February at the Thur & Taxi site in Brussels, with 1200 guests attending.

The bronze medal for both HR Project and Logistics Project of the Year 2010 was awarded to Village N°1 Reine Fabiola/Phidan; under Phidan lead Village completed a successful overhaul of their business (see Village N°1 Reine Fabiola).

For further information on the event, please see Transport & Logistics Awards 2010.

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November 2009
Social Economic Award 2009

Village Nr1 Reine Fabiola is taking part in the 17th edition of the Social Economic Award, previously the Roger Vanthournout Award. The largest sheltered workshop of Wallonia, a major customer where PHIDAN implemented both a Supply Chain and aw well as an organisational redesign, is in the running for one of the €8000 grants which will be awarded to three companies in the social economic sector. To take part in this competition, companies have to answer to particular principles; to provide a service to the community or members thereof, rather than maintain a profit making policy; independent management; a democratic decision-maker process and to obtain an healthy balance with regard to the internal revenue division.

The awards are divided into three categories; two grants are aimed at a Walloon and a Brussels company, who have existed for over three years, whereas the third grant is set aside for a ‘young’ business, still in its starting blocks. These grants will allow the winning companies to further develop their activities as well as foresee a better response towards the needs of both their customers and employees. Three €2000 grants will also be presented to companies who receive a special mention. 

The awards ceremony will take place on 24 November 2009 at 11 o’clock  at the Ferme de Martinrou, Fleurus.

Please find more information, as well as the ability to vote, on the following link: http://www.prixdeleconomiesociale.be/ecw/

By clicking on the logo of each company you will find a description of their activities, as well as their motivation to take part in the competition.Please note you will only be able to vote for one candidate in each category.

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October 2009
Transport & Logistics 2009

PHIDAN will be welcoming you at the Transport & Logistics 2009 fair which will take place from 2à to 22 October at Antwerp Expo.

Please do not hesitate to contact Iris Serré on 016 48 11 11 in case you would appreciate an individual welcome by one of our partners at our booth nr.1405 during the three days of the event.

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June 2009
Air Chase Competition - Winning Projects

PHIDAN was one of the main sponsors of the first edition of the Air Chase Competition, organised by VIB (Vereniging voor Inkoop en Bedrijfslogistiek).

On 18 June, around 50 participants gathered at Groenhoven Castle, Malderen, to take part in this event. The small castle is located in a sublime park, and is a forerunner with regard to the conservation and recycling of energy.

The goal of the Air Chase Competition is to reward the three most innovative projects on the subject of transport optimisation. Please find below a short description of the winning projects selected by the jury, chaired by Jos Marinus, Chairman of VIB.

STAPLES

First prize was awarded to Staples for a packaging optimisation project. The retailer of  office material arranged for their packaging machine to be able to cut packaging in height, fit to content, which dramatically decreases the transport of ‘air’ ie empty packaging. This project simultaneously allows Staples to economise greatly on energy and transport.

TRANSPORT JOOSEN

Transport Joosen was awarded second place for optimizing their Eurotranscon software. The software allows the transport company to significantly reduce the kilometres run by empty containers. Eurotranscon allows the transport company who has emptied a container at a certain destination, to obtain a load from a fellow transport company to continue the journey with. 120 transport companies specialised in container traction are currently active on the platform.

DELHAIZE

Supermarket chain Delhaize was awarded 3d place for their «DoubleDeck Project». These types of  lorries allow a 60%  increase of rollcontainers to be transported in comparison to a regular lorry. These vehicles are in need of more maintenance and handling, and are therefore only profitable on long journeys, over 150KM.

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June 2009
Internalisation of External Costs

At the beginning of the year, the European Parliament Transport Commision ratified the Eurovignette draft directive on the basis of the report produced by Saïd El Khadraoui, with the aim to make transport more efficient and durable.

At the moment, EU members can only charge road transport for the infrastructure, whereas the new regulation stipulates a frame agreement within which further charges can now also be collected for transport vehicles. From 2012 onwards, large vehicles weighing in at 3.5 tonnes or more have to pay external costs for the air and noise pollution as well as the congestions caused. CO² emissions have not been withheld in this directive.

Unlike in the past, the revised Eurovignette draft directive will not only apply to the Trans-European network (TEN roads) but to all roads accommodated to allow a reasonable amount of transport. Cities currently retain the right to levy local taxes on top of the set charge.

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June 2009
Air Chase Competition - Event

Thursday 18th June 2009

Kasteel Groenhoven, Malderen

 

The VIB offers, together with PHIDAN, trophies to the best projects in transport optimization.

 

The following finalists will present their projects to you:

 

• Agfa Healthcare - Marc Vermeiren – Logistic Manager 

«Saving transport cost by collaboration in local transport »

•  Delhaize - Steven Op de Beeck – Transportmanager

«Doubledecker trailers: Ecological and multi-temperature trucks»

•  Groep H.Essers - Jeroen Rutten – Warehouse Supervisor/Key Account manager

«Intermodal bridge between West and East»

• Staples – Guido Goddé – Managing Director

«Finetuning packaging- en transportconcepts in order to transport less air »

•  Transport Joosen – Kurt Joosen – Managing partner

«Eurotranscon: Swap of trips and empty equipment »

•  Transport Van de Poel – Jan Vervecken – Responsible for Safety, Quality and Environment

«Ecodriving: ecological, economical and safe driving »

 

Transporting less air

VIB is organising the Air Chase Competition, with support of OTM, to motivate companies, transporters and other logistic players towards a more sustainable transportmanagement.

Attend the event on the 18th June and return with useful ideas to reduce transportcost, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.

 

You help pick the winner

During the Air Chase Competition Event on the 18th June you help pick the winner. The vote of the public counts for 40%, the vote of the jury for 60%. The company with the best project wins a balloon ride for 5 people.

 

Win a balloon ride yourself

There will be a lottery of 2 individual balloon rides (value 145€) for the public.

Air Chase Competition Event on the 18th June - 14h to 19h

Kasteel Groenhoven, Groenhof 2, 1840 Malderen

Participation: € 150 for members of VIB/OTM/Agoria (€ 165 for non-members)

Registration is possible through the link below http://www.bevib.be/seminaries/090402airchase/registratieevent.html

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April 2009
PHIprofiler - Your Supply Chain DNA

On 24 April 2009, Phidan answered your Supply Chain, Logistic and Procurement questions in a highly informative seminar. We could welcome plenty of interested people in the beautiful settings of the Kasteel Van Ham in Steenokkerzeel.

Key note speaker Professor Dr. Nico Vandaele (KU Leuven) has given an overview of the Supply Chain state in Belgium (view keynote on www.Nyoalatus.com).

PHIDAN has presented its tool to determine the current state of supply chain development within your business as well as how to assess the operational performance of your end-to-end supply chain. This knowledge allows managers to identify operational improvement opportunities, possibly with the use of  a diagnostic tool resulting in Supply Chain excellence. Phidan provided visibility into best practices and demonstrated how to achieve functional Supply Chain optimization.

 

View presentations:

Trends and challenges for contemporary Supply Chain organisations

Presentation PHI-profiler

 

Program

14h30     Registration

15h00     State of affairs in Belgian Supply Chain organisation: Theory and Practice

                 Key-note speech by Prof. Dr. Nico Van Daele

15h30     Trends and challenges for contemporary Supply Chain organisations:

Best Practices and Benchmark Information 

16h30     Diagnostics for Supply Chain Excellence, determine your Supply Chain DNA through PHIprofiler  

17h00     Informal reception            

18h30     End       

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January 2009
VIM selects Phidan as external expert

Phidan has been selected as expert for consulting services for the VIM (Vlaams Instituut voor Mobiliteit). With this assignment the Flemish government acknowledges our 20 years experience in Supply Chain Management.

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December 2008
Phidan attended the VIB/PICS Gala Award Event 2008

Phidan attended the VIB/PICS Gala Award Event 2008. In 2007 we were the winners of the Audience Award. This year we organised a table with representatives of the food chain. We had animated discussions on production of raw materials with Mondifoods, finished products of Danone and co-packing by Village n°1.

 

 

 

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September 2008
Phidan exhibits at Supply Chain World 2009 in Brussels

Supply Chain World 2009 takes place on the 25th and 26th March 2009 in Brussels Expo. Phidan welcomes you at booth 51.

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September 2008
Phidan’s newsletter is born…

Part of our advisory role is to keep our business relations in touch with developments in the field of supply chain management. Therefore we thought it useful to report on a regular basis on our experiences and evolutions in your domain. This newsletter tries to address topics which we think may be of interest to your daily challenges.

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November 2007
Phidan wins supply chain Award

On the Gala event of the Supply Chain Award 2007 organised by PICS/VIB/ABCAL, Phidan was awarded with the price of the audience. Managing partner Philip Van den bosch together with the CEO of Mondi Foods Johan Page presented the case: ”Working capital reduction as driver for Supply Chain professionalization”. The public appreciated the way a small company can proof the importance of SC management and the way the project contributed to the creation of shareholder value.

 

Read it all on www.picsbelgium.be
Download the presentation (ppt)

Contact: philip.vandenbosch@phidan.be

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September 2007
HERENT – Friday 7th September Phidan welcomed over 100 customers on their boat trip in the Port of Antwerp to celebrate its 15 years anniversary.

Last Friday Phidan welcomed over 100 customers on their boat trip in the Port of Antwerp to celebrate its 15 years anniversary. On the occasion of the event Phidan launched its new website. It has some innovative features like web enabled Supply Chain job application capabilities. In the future it will also contain a very extensive database on various themes in Supply Chain management.

With the new website Phidan wants to become a focal point on Supply Chain Management within the industry. On the one hand all people interested in applying for a Supply Chain job can enter their CV in what will become the largest database of Supply Chain professionals. On the other hand Phidan is developing a major database with literature on Supply Chain related topics. The aim is to gather all kind of information on Supply Chain topics in one database, easy accessible for all those in the need for any information on the subject.

“Only with the confidence you as customer had in our services, Phidan was able to become what it is today”, said founding partner Pierre Hazard. The company consists of a team of more than 15 highly specialized Supply Chain experts in Internal and External Logistics, Purchasing and Production Improvement.

Over the years Phidan could count amongst its customers a number of the major companies in industry like Pioneer, Bombardier and Novartis. Hazard continued: “Phidan has now become an established name in advice on Supply Chain matters. Our team continues to grow. One of the most visible effects is the extension of the partnership with a third name Philip Van den bosch, as highly educated expert in Supply Chain and Purchasing affairs”.

 

More info? Contact Mieke Verheust

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September 2007
Phidan exhibits at the Transport and Logistics fair in Antwerp

Phidan is one of approximately 300 logistics providers that present their services and products during the sixth edition of the Transport & Logistics trade fair. Transport & Logistics 2007 takes place from 25 September until 27 September 2007 in Antwerp Expo. Phidan welcomes you in booth 1112 in Hall 1.

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July 2007
deSter manages transport costs with Phirater

deSter, provider of food service concepts to almost 350 airlines, has chosen Phidan’s Phirater to get a better grip on its transport costs.

C. Van Hees (Logistics Manager at deSter): “We could have renegotiated our current transport rates and gained a few euros, but this would have led to reduced service levels. That is why we wanted to find an external partner who could make a comprehensive analysis of our current logistical operation. Our conditions were twofold.  We did not want to buy into the traditional consulting approach, which would leave us with a plan with a lot of recommendations that we had to implement ourselves. Secondly, rather than presenting an academic concept, we wanted our logistics partner to prove their thorough market knowledge by offering us guaranteed results. The overall target was to reduce the costs for our road transport in Europe by 20%.”

After a thorough analysis, Phidan focused on realising a number of quick wins. With the savings that were generated this way, the company could invest in the long-term improvements that Phirater offers. As soon as the new transport rates were known, the scaffolded implementation of Phirater started.

deSter’s own ERP package and Phirater are completely complementary. Solid process mapping ensures that the data transfers from the ERP package towards Phirater and vice versa have no significant impact on service and delivery performance. C. Van Hees: “We are now able to correctly allocate the costs to our customers. This also allows us to negotiate better agreements with our hauliers.”

 

For more information, read the Phirater article in Business Logistics or contact pierre.hazard@phidan.be

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June  2007
Phidan finalist for the Belgian Supply Chain Award 2007 with Mondi Foods project

Phidan has been selected as one of the four companies to compete in the final for the Belgian Supply Chain Award 2007. The SC Award, presented by the Supply Chain professionals association PICS, is the most prestigious award in the field of Supply Chain management.

Phidan has been chosen as one of the four finalists to compete with its project on working capital improvement at Mondi Foods, a company active in the red fruit processing industry. Mondi Foods is a top three player in Europe, delivering red fruit purees, whole frozen fruit and concentrates for the food industry.

Mondi Foods was faced with a large working capital base, required to bridge the year-long period between harvest and demand from the market. They called on Phidan to create innovative solutions to reduce the working capital needed. With a four-fold initiative, Phidan was able to reduce the working capital with 20% within one year.

 

For more information, contact philip.vandenbosch@phidan.be

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