Pieter Meints

Operations within Inbound Logistics department. Supplier management, transport, warehousing forecasting, inventory/order management and outbound support. Worldwide scope of wine, food and non-food suppliers and a multimodal network by multiple logistics partners (ocean, rail, barge and road). Inbound Logistics (ADIL / ADES) acts like an internal wholesaler and imports thousands of SKUs for all brands of Ahold Delhaize Europe (I.e. AH, Gall, Bol and Delhaize) and takes care of all the transport, supplier management and compliance.

Responsible for our Supplier portfolio, transport network and inventory/order management.

Responsible for all topics related to digital and accounting of the department Inbound Logistics. Also set up a service desk to consolidate all daily operational tasks. Working closely with IT, Finance and our service partners abroad.

Tactical planning, simulation and support to the warehouses of Albert Heijn.

My interests in retail, logistics and people are combined in an internship at the department Logistics Support. The topic of the thesis is shortly formulated "Dynamic function allocation to loading docks at the warehouses of Albert Heijn".

Preformed research in the topic of "The Dutch Retail Supply Chain - Trends & Challenges" in collaboration with the University of Twente.

Worked on the topic of "The need of implementing a collaboration tool like MS SharePoint".