Martijn Scholtes
Designs the logistics organisation so that logistics makes a real contribution to the company’s strategic goals — and actively guides the implementation, because a plan that is not carried out changes nothing.
Martijn is a warehouse management professional who has delivered projects as a consultant and project manager since 2005, at the intersection of logistics, business administration and IT, after years at Simon Loos, Atos Origin and Paramelt. Within Supply Today, he is the orchestrator on programmes where the logistics organisation and the systems beneath it have to be put in place at the same time.
He designs the logistics organisation so that logistics makes a real contribution to the company’s strategic goals. And it goes beyond the consultancy report: he actively guides the implementation, because a plan that is not carried out changes nothing. That is exactly what Supply Today stands for, and it is why he fits here.
His track record is concrete. Five WMS selections and implementations, from tender to a working set-up. Five outsourcing projects that he guided from first tender to go-live, at food producers, a brewery and a large retail organisation. Three feasibility studies for new distribution centres, and research into the order picking process at store level for a supermarket chain.
He adapts approach and methodology to what the project and the organisation need, rather than the other way around. By sketching a clear end state together, he provides direction. He actively involves the stakeholders in the implementation — which makes him the connecting factor in a programme. His yardstick is whether the daily delivery promise is met, not whether the plan is right. That is why he stays where most consultants leave: at the implementation, the ramp-up and the people who have to work with it every day.
