• Time management
  •  During the day, only in the morning, only in the afternoon
  • On specific time slot or outside working hours
  • Express Delivery

• Loading management
  
  • Full truck load or a single pallet
  • Rest pallet management belonging to your needs:
    • Rest pallet standard delivery with shipment
    • Specific rest pallet delivery
    • No rest pallet delivery

• Exchange management
  • Automatic standard upfront communication of delivery including day, hour and products being delivered
  • Customer’s platform solution on slot subscription

• Data management
  •  Standard fleet equipped with Track & Trace system
  • Transport & Delivery dashboard including statistics on time management, waiting hours,…

Four alternatives are possible offering you a vast range of solutions relying on consumption cycle, production process, safety stock, minimum order quantity, lot size and maximum stock duration:

• Temporary : Production starts at your request, in one go, will be ready on an agreed date, without safety stock, take up within 8 weeks.
• Continuous : Production based on forecast or historical data is executed in several runs, mainly for fast movers, first take up to be done within 3 weeks with safety stock and will be kept during maximum 90 days.
• Hybrid : Production starts at your request in several runs, will be ready on a date to agree upon, first take up to be done within 8 weeks, with safety stock and will be kept during maximum 90 days.
• Tailor : Production starts at your request in one go, will be ready on your specified date, take up within 10 days

Demand planning

Predicting the future can be challenging. Nevertheless, with your and our expertise we can come a long way. VPK offers three possibilities to help you and ourselves with demand planning. 

• Customer’s forecast and knowhow: As a customer, you will know best the evolution of your products. Based on historical analysis, seasonality, your own production capacity, demand planning etc. All this resulting in a global file from which data can be uploaded into VPK Packaging’s demand planning.
• History and algorithms: VPK Packaging has an in-house demand planning tool. Based on historical data analytics and incorporating predictive algorithms, it allows us to identify future trends.  
• Hybrid solution: As predicting the future might be difficult, it’s always good to be two to discuss. VPK reaches out to its customers, bringing your and our demand planners together on a regular base to define together what your future need might be.