Van Management 74

“Ice cream vendors’ vans are disappearing from the streets”, was the bone-dry newspaper headline. Ice cold, for those who like lame puns. As if it was all no big deal. After much ado, an agreement was finally reached with Glacio for the takeover of ice cream vendor, except for one small detail: Glacio didn’t like that door-to-door delivery. A matter of not only selling your soul, but also killing it at the same time. You see, I’m still not well from it. Together with the 128 ice cream vendors, mainly drivers, who can now look for another job. Why I developed such an affinity with ice cream vendors’ orange Mercedes Varios in my childhood, who knows. They’re pretty ugly, we shouldn’t be coy about that. However, it does show that a van (together with the person driving it) can have a significant impact on the bond that a company tries to forge with its customers. And that is also the main reason why horizontal cooperation in the distribution sector is still such a sensitive issue, I dare to suspect. Nothing is better for the image of your company than delivering your goods to your end customer correctly, on time and preferably with a radiant smile, with your shiny van in the background. If we didn't have to carry around 22,000 copies of this VAN Management, we would do it ourselves. in an orange Mercedes Vario.