Benelux foodservice and retail wholesale with supply chain and ERP transformation underway
Sligro operates the Benelux's largest foodservice wholesale network (46 self-service centers, 10 delivery hubs) plus ~130 EMTÉ retail supermarkets, serving horeca, catering, institutions, and retail partners. The tech stack reveals an organization mid-transformation: actively adopting SAP S/4HANA while replacing legacy SAP, implementing environmental management systems (ISO 14001), and building data models and master data strategy. Hiring is sales-led (20 roles) with simultaneous ops and logistics scaling, pointing to both demand growth and supply chain automation initiatives.
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Sligro Food Group is a 1,001–5,000-person public company founded in 1935, headquartered in Veghel, Netherlands. It operates two primary divisions: Foodservice, which supplies restaurants, catering companies, institutions, and retailers across the Netherlands and Belgium via 46 self-service wholesalers and 10 delivery-focused distribution centers (including the Van Hoeckel subsidiary specializing in institutional markets); and Foodretail, which runs approximately 130 full-service EMTÉ supermarkets, 30 of which are franchised to independent operators. The company uses Microsoft Office, SAP, Azure, AWS, and BI tools (Looker, Power BI, Tableau) to manage supply chain, logistics, and data operations across its nationwide network.
Sligro uses SAP as its core ERP and is actively adopting SAP S/4HANA as part of a larger transformation initiative. The company is also replacing legacy SAP systems in the process.
Sligro operates in the Netherlands and Belgium. Its foodservice division runs 46 self-service centers and 10 delivery hubs; its retail division operates ~130 EMTÉ supermarkets, with 30 franchised to independent operators.
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