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SEW Eurodrive company visit “SEW underway to a circular supply chain”
By: Derk Kuiper on: 23 March, 2023
On Friday, March 10, we visited the SEW Eurodrive plant in Rotterdam with a highly motivated selection of our APICS alumni. We had great discussions about the roll-out of sustainability practices. A central theme of the discussion about circularity was the importance of having goals and a strategy.…
Supply chain Resilience? In the short or longer-term?
By: Derk Kuiper on: 11 March, 2021
The current problems with supply chains by an example of the 1928 pig cycle. This is a theory which describes the adjustment mechanism of supply and demand that are not in balance and where capacity decisions have a delayed effect.
10 Mar 2023 10:00
Towards sustainable and circular supply chains at SEW Eurodrive (Rotterdam)
SEW Eurodrive assembles drives (electro motors) to customer configuration. SEW is an innovative company in Lean that leads its industry by remanufacturing customer drives needing service. Remanufacturing is an application of a circular supply chain that, combined with Lean, focuses on minimizing negative environmental impacts. This is an important starting point to becoming sustainable.
By: Visie Partners & SEW Eurodrive in: Rotterdam
