For a service-oriented organisation such as VPK Packaging Group NV, Logistics and Supply Chain Management are important links in the business-to-business (B2B) relationship with the market for fast moving consumer goods, among others. In this typically (customer-specific) Make-To-Order market, we distinguish ourselves from our competitors by being suppliers of high-quality packaging in corrugated and solid board.

Both internal and integrated logistics projects have been implemented or are ongoing, and are helping us to strengthen our strategic partnerships with our customers.
Within this framework, we are active in optimising the B2B supply chain with our customers. This optimization process is known to our customers as the FLI® model (Forward Logistic Integration) and aims at creating added value in the supply chain between customers and suppliers in the form of cost savings in inventory value and inventory cover, the calculation of the optimum production and order quantities and avoiding specific service costs (cost-to-serve).

With these types of logistics integration projects VPK Packaging Group NV is proving that in a constructive partnership with its customers, in addition to producing the packaging product itself, the initial goals of added value can also be achieved. This is the guiding principle for VPK Packaging Solutions®. VPK Packaging Group NV acknowledges the strategic importance of this marketing approach.

As a green company it is important to VPK Packaging Group NV to reduce its ecological footprint. This is applied in projects centralizing logistics control of transport as well in Belgium as in France, in order to reduce the number of kilometres. The further development of these processes is also an important point of interest in 2011.