VanDrieGroup wins prize with VealVision

VanDrie Group with Safety Guard and with VealVision, developed by Extendas, is winner of the Dutch Logistic Prize 2005.

On Thursday 3 November, Henny Swinkels, Director Corporate Affairs, received the Dutch Logistic Prize 2005 from prof. dr. Hugo B. Roos em.

Every year, the Vereniging Logistiek management (vLm) rewards exceptional performances in the logistic field with the Dutch Logistic Prize. The prize is given to an innovative project, which has been accomplished with provable success. Chairman of the Jury of the Dutch Logistic Prize, prof.dr.ir. Arno A.Th. de Schepper, indicated that the jury unanimously believes that the logistic organisation of the VanDrie Group deserves the prize for 2005 fully, measured by all criteria. The jury, which further exists from Prof.dr.ir. Jos Vermunt, ing. Henk (C.H.) van Amstel, Ben G. Radstaak and Prof.dr. W. Ploos van Amstel, considers the VanDrie Group an important asker of provoking logistic questions to science and society, and is impressed by that. Further, the jury paid attention to vision, integrated method, IT use, customer service results and cost effectiveness. The VanDrie Group scored best on these criteria and could thus receive the silver figure belonging to this prize.

And the winner is….
In his thank speech, Henny Swinkels, Director Corporate Affairs, indicated to be very gilt with this important prize, and seeing this as an acknowledgement that with Safety Guard, VanDrie has built up a lead in the area of quality care in the veal chain. ‘We're not only the largest producer of veal in the world, we also want to set the bar with new developments. Therefore we're always searching for the correct balance among the three P’s and the A from people, planet, profit and animals”, according to Swinkels.

VanDrie Group
In less than fifty years, the VanDrie Group has developed into the largest private agro company of the Netherlands. With a turnover of 1 billion euro per year, the company is world market leader in veal. The company has fixed cooperation contracts with over 1000 calf breedings and owns fodder companies for the production of calf milk powder, slaughterhouses in the Netherlands, Belgium and France and a factory where calf skins are processed for the production of high-quality calf leather. In total, 1800 people are employed. The indirect employment amounts to over 2500 jobs. The VanDrie Group is a financially healthy company and the positive company result of the family company is always invested into the further development of the chain, the company and the sector. The logo of the VanDrie Group exists of the colours red, white and blue. The company is proud to be a Dutch venture.

The tracking and tracing system
Safety Guard is the tracking and tracing system of the VanDrie Group, rewarded by Lloyds Register Quality Assurance Ltd. with the Food Safety Supply Chain Management Certificate. Tracking and tracing is related to the calf, to the raw materials that are used for making calf milk powder to the delivery of veal in all facets until reaching the consumers.

All raw materials and end products of the calf milk production are subject to tracking and tracing. From the moment of setting up in the stables at the VanDrie Group, the calves are added to the tracking and tracing system on the basis of the unique ID code. In the slaugterhouses and cutting departments, the ID code remains to be inextricably bound to the piece of veal, no matter whether it's a carcass or a veal schnitzel on dish now. In short, within all links of the integrated veal meat chain of the VanDrie Group, tracking and tracing are applied. This is possible because all parts of the chain are kept in own hands, so that it can be imposed within the organization. Moreover, it provides a “Unique Selling Point”, with which new customers are acquired.

The transparency of the chain is given, among others, by the tracing system www.vealvision.com. This system of the VanDrie Group can be consulted on every random time by third parties via internet. It does not only provide insigh

Europ Assistance Nederland BV

Assistence has a lot of facets, in appropriate cases work has to be done rapidly and reliably, but also efficiently and according to agreements made. Europ Assistance Nederland originated from the Schade Alarm Service S.A.S. b.v. in 2001. As a part of the Europ Assistance Holding, established in France, they belong world wide to the top 3 of the operating assistance organizations. As no other, they know what things are about concerning assistance. Nationally and internationally, 24 hours a day, 365 days per year they're ready for their customers.

Extendas developed for Europ Assistance a sophisticated portal, with which Europ Assistance Nederland is able to be ready for their customers online 24 hours a day, 365 days per year!

For more information, take a look in our Portfolio

Sugro Belgie

After last year Lekkerland Nederland BV has implemented the Online Shop and Service System, developed by Extendas, Sugro België will now introduce the system too. At the beginning of next year, Extendas will link the successful internet system to the back office of Sugro België and make the necessary country specific adaptations.

Hereafter, the system will shortly become available for the customers of Sugro België.

Beta, TWS and Extendas

Measuring is knowing... Compare your figures with your colleages now in an easy way! Like we all know, the shop becomes ever more important in your company management. The fuel margins are under pressure and the consumer gets more critical and more price-conscious. Insight in figures is therefore of ever growing importance. Not only insight in your own figures, but also insight in branch figures in common or statistical indicators about what happens at similar stations.

Because there's (too) little insight in such figures TWS looked, together with Extendas, for a solution. The aim is to ensure reliable and comparable figures, while the figures are also given back to the participating entrepeneurs. This without you having to do anything.

The BETA board and 50 other active participants are already joining. From now on, you can also join for free the TWS Shopmonitor: the electronic collecting of sale figures. In the first place from your own shop, and from april 2005 you can also receive figures from the market. TWS periodically ensures an overview of the sale figures of 22 sub groups, according to the article classification established by TWS.

How does it work?
TWS reads, with your authorization, automatically the necessary data from your POS system on article level. Of course, the data are treated strictly confidentially. TWS automates the conversion of your data to the standard TWS article classification and reports this periodically back to you.

You can read a vast explanation in the report of the Rondetafelgesprek in nr. 3/2004 of TWS on page 5 (in Dutch).

Participating is easy.
Go to www.tankenwassenshoppen.nl, and sign up! Then you receive the subscription package.

For more information, you can also contact Martin van Eijk +31 (0)10- 4111180 or e-mail martin@tankenwassenshoppen.nl.

Lekkerland Online

Only a few months after the introduction of the Lekkerland Online Shop and Service System, the system is a tremendous success already. Many hundreds of customers are registered already and daily dozens new follow. The internet system, developed by Extendas on the basis of Extendas FuelOffice, makes it possible for Lekkerland customers to communicate with Lekkerland 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Different than with other systems known in the market, users of the Lekkerland Online Shop and Service System get their information directly from the Lekkerland Back Office system! The large advantage from this is that the data asked for are always current, no delay arises and there's a direct connection with the Lekkerland employees.

You can get more information about the system by contacting Lekkerland Nederland BV and/or with your Lekkerland Account Manager. Via Extendas, you can get information by contacting Marcel Cauli, he can be contacted on telephone number +31 (0)74-2591543.