Mission

VIL Mission

“To leverage Flanders as a sustainable and innovative logistics top region in Europe”

VIL wants to improve the competitiveness of the companies in the logistics sector through the implementation of sustainable and innovative concepts and technologies. That will help Flanders to become a smart hub and to retain and strengthen its position as a key logistics region in Europe.

Sustainable logistics

Public awareness with respect to the environment affects how actors in the supply chain organise their logistic activities and select their business partners. VIL wants to play a part in this process by reconciling economy and ecology through encouraging and promoting sustainable logistics. That means that all VIL projects have the objective of striking a balance between effectiveness, efficiency and ecology.

VIL wants to achieve that degree of sustainable logistics at the level of internal business logistics and at the level of external – distribution – logistics, in the following three areas:

• Supply Chain Organisation:
  VIL wants to improve and optimise the physical goods flows.
• Supply Chain Intelligence:
  VIL wants to map the logistics information flows and manage them.
• Supply Chain Security:
  VIL concentrates on projects that facilitate global trade and therefore wants to improve the integrity of the goods and information flows.

Substance is added to those three domains in a bottom-up process: on the basis of input from brainstorming sessions involving VIL members and others, in combination with company visits and enhanced VIL expertise.