Nico Kuipers
About
Nico Kuipers is from Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands. Nico works in the following industries: "Wholesale". Nico is currently Advisory Board Member (non executive) at Welkoop, located in Apeldoorn, Gelderland, Netherlands. Nico also works as Advisory Council Member at Hogeschool van Arnhem en Nijmegen (HAN), a job Nico has held since Sep 2021. Another title Nico currently holds is Director Global Supply Chain at Kramp. In Nico's previous role as a European supply chain & customer service director at Grainger, Nico worked in Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands until Nov 2020. Prior to joining Grainger, Nico was a Supply chain manager at Sligro Food Group and held the position of Supply chain manager at Veghel. Prior to that, Nico was a supply chain manager at Spar Holding, based in Waalwijk from Aug 2008 to Oct 2013. Nico started working as manager Albert Heijn at Ahold Nederland in Feb 2001. From Oct 1999 to Feb 2001, Nico was Management Trainee at Laurus.
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Nico Kuipers's current jobs
Advisory board member (non executive) to the executive board regarding the strategic direction of Welkoop. Welkoop is a leading Dutch retail (online & offline) brand.
Group director, responsible for the supply chain on a global scale. Kramp is the marketleading distributor of parts and spare parts for the agriculture industry: we make sure that farmers can keep farming. My (teams) key accountability areas: supply chain network design and deployment, warehouse and automation engineering, process engineering, supply chain data science, inbound and outbound freight carrier management, integrated supply chain planning, inventory deployment, sales and operations planning, supply chain IT & DEV OPS.
Nico Kuipers's past jobs
Executive international board member. Responsible for warehousing operations in Europe and Asia (12 warehouses), global inbound and outbound freight, inventory management, S&OP, purchasing, the European customer care centers and project management, and as a board member, the direction of the European businesses in general. I have done a lot of work on redesigning the supply chain to make it scalable and to make sure it is capabale to serve our customers the best way possible.W.W. Grainger inc. (fortune 500 company: $ 10 bn revenue) is the leading MRO broadline distributor in the US and Canada. N.Y. stock exchange listed and HQ IN Chicago Illinois. I am the supply chain director for Grainger's European businesses Fabory (The Netherlands) and Cromwell tools (U.K.). Member of the international executive board. Supply chain Footprint in almost all European countries, India and China.
responsible for supply chain design and planning across all sales channels (food service, food retail) of the Sligro food group. Sligro food group is the leading Dutch food service company. Projects were centralizing inventory management for all locations and implementing new cross docking operations to improve shelf life. Sligro Foodgroup: € 2.5 billion turnover and 10.000+ employees. Midcap stock exchange Amsterdam listed.
Responsible for the supply chain on strategic / tactical level. Responsible for the inventories in the warehouses, supplier performance, internal inventory performance, replenishment to the stores. Previous projects were supply chain network design, centralizing inventory planning, reducing inventory while improving service, designing and building a new warehouse and implementing new transport strategy to support the value proposition of the business
Managing the larger stores, up to 400 people in line and project management
Management Development programme