230 years of looking ahead, now running on data they trust

Hudig & Veder has been in logistics since 1795. A family firm from Rotterdam, forwarding, shipping, chartering and bulk, it has stayed relevant for more than two centuries by doing one thing consistently: looking ahead and moving early. When it decided its next edge would come from data it could trust completely, it came to us.

The ambition was clear. Take the deep expertise that had made the firm what it is, the knowledge its best people carry, and turn it into something the whole business can rely on and build on. Run the operation on code and process that scale, so experience compounds across the company instead of living in a few heads. Close the books and read the numbers with total confidence.

So we built the foundation to carry that ambition. A single governed layer, with governance and data quality built in from day one, a code-first way of working, and automated, complete lineage, so any number can be followed all the way back to its source. Knowledge that used to be carried by hand is captured once and works for everyone, every day.

The results showed up fast, where they matter most. A three-way match across orders, invoices and bank payments, something the firm had long wanted to get right, now reconciles in hours. A finance process that used to take a skilled team around twenty hours a week now runs on its own, every night. The people who once spent those hours are free for the work only they can do.

Two hundred and thirty years in, Hudig & Veder steers on data it trusts, with its expertise built into a foundation that grows with the business rather than depending on it. The firm that has always looked ahead now has the ground to keep doing exactly that.