Carlo Peters has almost 30 years of experience in Supply Chain and Logistics Management both from supply side as well as from demand side. Carlo’s experiences include (sr) management roles in consultancy, implementation and change, warehouse and Value Added Service operations, transportation operations as well as General Management. He is a specialist in supply chain, logistics and freight management and speaks on a regular basis at conferences and webinars. Carlo has worked across the globe including Europe, Middle East, Africa, Russia/CIS, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
For BCI Global, Carlo managed and carried out many projects in the area of Supply Chain Management, Network Optimization, Transport Optimization and management (Control Towers), Strategic Outsourcing, Integrated Business Planning and Organizational alignment. He has worked on projects in various industry segments such as, Automotive, Industrial Manufacturing, Spare parts/Aftermarket, Chemicals, Fashion and Lifestyle, CPG, Retail, E-Commerce and Pharma/Healthcare and the logistics services market. Customer references include among others, Amazon, Electrolux, Avaya, Caterpillar, ABB, Herbalife, Abercrombie & Fitch, Havaianas, MediaMarkt, Mattel, Celanese, Archroma, ThermoFisher, Abbott, Neovia Logistics, DHL, etc.
European road transport rates for parcels & pallets continue to increase with 5 to 10+%. Ocean rates are still going south, while Airfreight ra ...
Global air and ocean transport has been causing major headaches to supply chain leaders but European road transport remained rather stable. Road tr ...
Currently, there is a serious storm or even a hurricane ongoing in the ocean freight industry. Rates are at an all-time high (BCI’s monitor s ...
Often shippers are dissatisfied with the relationship and the service they get from their Logistics Service Provider (LSP). Recent research learns ...
Managing freight costs is key for supply chain and logistics professionals. The Covid-19 crisis makes companies even more aware that creating visib ...
Covid-19 has exposed the vulnerabilities of global complex supply chains. Many companies are faced with a lack of end-to-end visibility. Do you sta ...
The Netherlands is one of the major gateways to the European market. Many logistics service providers are offering a wide array of activities and o ...
Greater agility enables companies to meet demands of flexible and mobile consumers. Speed enhances companies’ growth by responding to shiftin ...
Many multinational companies have already put in place various kinds of control towers – initially focusing on creating transactional visibil ...
After a sharp decrease in 2023 with 26% of the take up of logistics real estate in 11 European markets, the take up in 2024 will stabilize. This is ...
European road and parcel freight rates will increase with 8% in the next six months. Global ocean freight rates are stable at low level, but air fr ...
The Netherlands is a major logistics gateway to the ever growing European market of more than 500 million customers. But where do you start ...
Supply Chain challenges caused by demand volatility, labor scarcity and quality of 3PL performance were discussed including various measures to dea ...
The Netherlands is a major logistics gateway to the European market of more than 500 million customers,even in these unprecedented times. Many Amer ...
The general rate increase (GRI) for parcel and express shipments in Europe will this year be between 4% and 7% (4-6% domestic; 5-7 cross border). T ...
The Netherlands is a major gateway to the European market, even in these unprecedented times. Many American and Asian shippers are using the Port o ...
The Netherlands is a major gateway to the European market, even in these unprecedented times. For all major supply chain operations, a best-fitting ...
The definitions and explanation of all technologies that are incorporated in the supply chain digitization survey are mentioned below. These defini ...
Customers all over the world expect the same for spare parts deliveries: same or next day delivery, products always available, choices for delivery ...
Do you recognize one or more of the following questions: Does our supply chain provides the right service to our customer? What is the performance ...
Forget the old score cards and welcome real time information about where products in the supply chain are actually right now. Real time information ...
Every supply chain or transportation manager has 4 key objectives: lowering transportation cost, improving service to (internal) customers, improvi ...