Bridgestone: ‘Reducing the cost of our tenders and processes’
‘Really simple to improve insight in operational processes’
“We all experienced the wow effect after we had an eye-opener session with Every Angle”, sais Niek Vaessen, General Manager - Business Enhancement & Transformation Planning- Supply Chain & Information Unit at Bridgestone. “Apparently it can be really simple to improve insight in your operational processes.”
‘In need of most detailed and accurate information available’
“Every Angle is allowing us to reduce our cost with several percent tender over tender. It’s especially saving cost in our warehousing environment. In addition it’s helping us in keeping our transport cost under control. And as fuel prices are high, it means you are all the time in need of the most detailed and accurate information available. The OPM-solution of Every Angle helps us a lot in providing detailed information with which we can improve our tender processes, information we didn’t have in the past.”
In this movie: Niek Vaessen, General Manager - Business Enhancement & Transformation Planning- Supply Chain & Information Unit at Bridgestone
About Bridgestone Europe
Bridgestone Europe (BSEU) is a key regional subsidiary of the Tokyo-based Bridgestone Corporation, the world’s largest manufacturer of tyres and other rubber products. Bridgestone Corporation and its subsidiaries employ over 138.000 people around the world, operate 187 plants in 26 nations and sell products in more than 150 countries. One in five vehicles in the world drives on the company’s tyres.
The Bridgestone Zeebrugge site
The site of Bridgestone in Zeebrugge (Flanders, Belgium) is large. About one million tyres are stocked in a warehouse of over 90.000 square meters (90.000 m2). In Zeebrugge Bridgestone is receiving many tyres from all over the world, but mainly from the manufacturing plants in Japan.
Facilities & resources about Bridgestone Europe
Bridgestone Europe employs over 13.000 staff throughout Europe in:
6 regional sales companies
8 tyre manufacturing plant (France, Italy, Poland, Hungary and Spain) each with a distribution centre
A major R&D and testing centre in Italy
A state-of-the-art Proving Ground (Italy) opened in 2004
3 European Logistics Centres: Zeebrugge (Belgium), Madrid (Spain) and Bor (Czech)
European headquarters in Brussels
