Groep De Wit is a family owned company founded in 1947. Its third generation keeps up the high reputation. Sustainability, innovation and efficiency are keywords in the group of companies.They are meeting high quality standards for delivering products (gasoil and other (bio-)fuels, drinking water and lubricating oil) for inland shipping (barges, …) & industry (delivery with trucks to companies) (also delievery of seagoing vessels by the company Belgian Trading & Bunkering) and offer a flexible 24/7 service.Groep De Wit has a great atmosphere which gets the best from their employees in delivering value for the customer.

De Wit Transport is part of 'Groep De Wit' and is active in niche transport by barges. We seek for the optimal combination for the customer and deliver the highest value for your customer.

Nassau Scheepsbenodigdheden, as part of 'Groep De Wit' specializes as a one-stop-shop for all items related to shipping and yachting.

Head of the Supply Chain Purchasing Services department. (Procurement for mainly Belgium + Europe)The most important fields of responsibility in purchasing are facilities, rolling equipment and cranes, utilities, packaging material, waste, travel and fleet.

Supply chain purchasing in several fields: Belgium: utilities, temp labour, facility contracts, travel,...Follow up abroad for:Italy: packaging material, waste and facilitiesUSA: packaging material, utilities and wasteEurope: Utilities

Negotiating contracts and maintaining the contract and taking care of the 'internal customers' for temp companies (interim), waste, PPE (personal protective equipment), clothing, electricity and gas, meal vouchers and other.

Guiding a team through a start-up phase of a new larger client and implementing a completely new ERP system (Microsoft Navision) for approximately 6 months. Number of people to manage: 18Place: Mississauga, Toronto, Canada

Leading customer service representatives (12 people) in daily logistics operations (Navision and SAP systems).

Start-up of logistics operations for a petrochemical company at Al-Jubail (Saudi Arabia).SAP R3 start up, training new employees and creating a team of customer service representatives. Training a local administration manager.

Started as Trainee at Katoen Natie, after 2 months started in administrative team for 1 year and became teamleader for 5 customer service representatives.During that period, I also had short assignments abroad (New Jersey, USA and Tarragona, Spain).The teamleader function was combined with a function as Hub Operations Manager (responsible as account manager for 1 key account in Antwerp, Gelsenkirchen and Tarragona).