Even Jo Van Moer himself was, at one time, a humble truck driver. That ‘hands-on’ experience has played a vital role in the group’s roots. As an entrepreneur, Van Moer’s main focus is achieving sustainable growth. The high-performance and readily scalable ICT environment that goes with it was a missing piece of the puzzle. Van Moer found that missing piece with Arxus (a company from the Uptime Group), a seasoned cloud provider with extensive in-house knowledge on how to deliver high-performance and hyper scalable ICT environments amongst others.
Van Moer is a fully-integrated logistics group with a focus on transport and distribution, warehousing, storage, freight forwarding and special services. Van Moer started out, in 1990, with a one-man business. Since that time the company has grown into a group with 1,100 employees, 380 trucks, 400,000 square meters of warehousing space and 130 million euros in turnover. Van Moer is active on twenty sites in Belgium and three in Romania.
It’s particularly since 2012 that the group has known remarkable year-over-year growth. “Till that time we had been mainly operating at two sites in the Port of Antwerp”, recalls ICT manager Joris Emmanuel. “The ICT support for that had been developed solely in Zwijndrecht.” All applications were deployed in the group’s datacenter: ranging from email and finance to WMS and transport planning.