IBM SUPPLY CHAIN
EUROPE the main warehouse now resides in Venlo , in the east of the country . The managing business unit remains in Amsterdam where it centrally oversees the entire EMEA region . In Hungary it has a country planning team and repair vendor management , and it has a buffer planning team in India . Reutilisation of parts is one of IBM ’ s key strengths .
Shifting focus In the past decade IBM ’ s changing strategy has seen it sell its PC brand to Lenovo , printer editions to Ricoh and more recently its retail storage solutions to Toshiba last year . But the amount of countries it serves in regards to maintenance services has continued to increase , with Nigeria and Kenya being recent stock locations added to the EMEA portfolio .
The company has also completely consolidated the management of its warehousing and transportation by subcontracting this to Geodis . It is the sole lead logistics provider for IBM by managing logistics costs supporting the finished goods distribution , asset recovery services , as well as service parts logistics worldwide .
Laurens Neomagus , who is Global Parts & Logistics Process Owner for Multi- Vendor Support , said : “ We have outsourced warehousing and transportation almost completely to third party suppliers through Geodis . We still have all the applications , they run
Key Personnel
Jaap Hazewinkel
Manager of Planning & Serviceability Worldwide EMEA Inventory Management and Worldwide Service Parts Operation Inventory Manager
After completing his study of Computer Science at the Technical University in Delft , Jaap joined IBM in the area of developing the systems used in managing service parts . After an assigment in Paris , Jaap moved into the operational management of the Service Parts Supply Chain
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