Staying positive and keep the sphere move . That ’s what Ton vanguard Mil with Royal Brinkman want to do together with his party and the whole sector . long ton enunciate how much he appreciates that everyone does the best they can in a picture message , in which he also talks about the creative thinking , digital resolution and scarceness of some products , that this metre command . Despite maintain larger caudex and a danger annul purchasing insurance policy , some products are starting to get scarce .
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Can you place to where ' corona - creativity ' is absolutely demanded right now?Challenges for us at the mo are mostly about currency fluctuations , and logistically speaking about conveyance of transport containers . The rate exchange every day and bookings are moved up a couple of Day just like that .
It is essential to have good contact with customers . The world suddenly change and everyone has to start planning differently . client appreciate it that we contrive and think in the lead with them . Products still arrive on meter all around the world . 80 % of our employee works from abode , which demands intragroup creativity . The ICT has to be passing practiced .
What are concrete limitations that Royal Brinkman go through now?We do n’t have literal limitations yet , fortuitously . By staying on top of it in the operation , we ’ve been able to preclude pitch problems .
We see conflict around the world when looking at the phases of the corona - ontogeny : China is protrude up again , Europe is right in the middle of it , the United States and the Middle - East have locomote in lockdown , and South America is a week behind on that .
Where is your biggest business , apart from your own company ? With growers having a hard time or with supplier who you work with?With both of class . It ’s close to our hearts , how the sphere is under air pressure and how everyone ferment very hard to hold out . The plot of buying and marketing is even close : the game between all our suppliers and our customers around the Earth . We are a wanderer in that web .
Do you have solutions to serve cultivator / suppliers ( temporarily ) through the crisis , for instance by delay of payment?Together we search for the best solutions , but unfortunately we ca n’t take the part of the money box , that would make our own position way too vulnerable . We are going to get hit by this crisis too .
Does it help that you ’ve been mould on digitalising and tocopherol - commerce in recent years?The sales / order via our webshops around the humankind have increase quite a bit . The good digital online gross sales surroundings of Royal Brinkman really helps us in this clip . The webshop has essay to be a unchanging , unmissable , digital ground for the lodge process of horticultural products .
Next to that we ’re offering digital tool for our ' human language ' by specialist and story managers . By petition and with permission of the customer , specialists and repairmen are of course still usable for when a sojourn to a nursery is necessary , with regard for the RIVM regulations of path .
What can you , in this time , offer regarding knowledge?At our webshop , at ' de digitale specialiser ' , you may see how growers quest a video recording call with their regular contact . The specializer share a personal link and is there for the customer , at a distance .
We also see that in the knowledge bank of our webshop , the articles are viewed more often . More than 1,000 products are on-line with info about horticulture specific mathematical product , as well as how - to videos .
Next to that our hygienics specialists are consulted often about preventing the cattle farm of plant and human viruses .
Next to knowledge , you supply many goods . How do you do by this in the corona - situation?We have a peril avoiding purchasing policy in which articles are buy from multiple producer . In this time of uncertainty we seek to have larger parentage .
At the moment we have plenty stock and/or alternative products , but we are set out to observe scarcity in some product categories . We always have a skinny contact with our provider around the world , and can still offer agriculturalist alternatives .
indispensable section , among which logistics , have been harbor and work in shifts to be able to guarantee obstetrical delivery dependability . Our whole organisation is working to be able to provide customers with maximum saving .
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