Why This Story Matters
Van Moer Logistics, a leading integrated logistics provider, transformed its budgeting processes alongside its financial and ESG reporting by implementing Board, the Enterprise Planning Platform. Moving away from Excel for these tasks, the company now benefits from streamlined automation, consistent data integrity, and unmatched flexibility across its FP&A processes and sustainability operations. This case study explores how Van Moer, in partnership with PlanPulse, built a unified, scalable, and auditable reporting and planning environment that supports both strategic and regulatory goals.
The Company
Founded in 1990, Van Moer Logistics has grown from a two truck operation into a vertically integrated logistics powerhouse. With 2,200 employees, 500 trucks, 15 barges, and 850,000 m² of warehouse space across 40 locations, the company offers end-to-end logistics services including transport, warehousing, intermodal, and bulk logistics.
The Challenge: Outgrowing Excel
Before implementing Board, Van Moer relied entirely on Excel for financial planning and reporting. This led to:
- Technical limitations: “We hit the 1 million row limit in Excel.”
- Lack of scalability: Especially problematic for ESG and carbon reporting
- Inconsistencies: Manual processes and fragmented data sources
“Excel errors were common, and we realized we needed an upgrade”, explains Roel Ocket, Business & Financial Controller at Van Moer Logistics.
After evaluating several tools, Van Moer chose Board The Enterprise Planning Platform. One of the main selection criteria was its flexibility:
Roel Ocket
Board was the most flexible solution we evaluated—like a blank canvas that allowed us to design our reporting environment entirely on our terms.
Kobe Van Doorsselaere, Sustainability Engineer at Van Moer, looking for a platform to support with ESG topics, agrees:
Kobe Van Doorsselaere
Standard carbon tools were too rigid. Board gave us the structure and freedom to build exactly what we needed—no compromises, no workarounds.
A Future-Ready Finance and ESG Framework
Today, 85 users across Van Moer Logistics depend on Board for financial planning and analysis (FP&A) including budgeting and forecasting, cash flow and balance sheet analysis, management and regulatory reporting, and dashboards.
Van Moer Logistics leverages Board for ESG and carbon accounting, supporting scope 1 emissions tracking, CSRD-compliant reporting, and workflows that include four-eye validation and full audit trail for enhanced data integrity. Board enables decentralized data input where each site can enter their own carbon data directly into the system, supporting tailored dashboards for internal use and external reporting.
The Board platform integrates seamlessly with Van Moer Logistics’ various data sources including Microsoft Dynamics 365, Allegro, Odoo, and Excel, ensuring a single source of truth across finance and sustainability.
Roel Ocket
For me, the greatest advantage of using Board is having a single version of the truth. It ensures that every reporting unit—whether financial or ESG—is working from the same reliable, consistent data foundation. That level of alignment simply wasn’t possible with Excel.
Key Benefits
- Automation: Automatic nightly refreshes of all data, ad hoc reloads – especially during closing, reduced manual work
- Consistency: Single version of the truth thanks to seamless connection to Excel, MS Dynamics 365, Allegro, and Odoo
- Collaboration: Simultaneous use, decentralized data input with centralized control, controlled access for auditors and external stakeholders
- Standardization: Unified reports, dashboards, and KPIs across all reporting entities, visualizations like waterfall charts now created effortlessly
- Security: admin restricted mapping tables, viewing restrictions, validation workflows and audit trails, compliance support
- Flexibility: Custom-built applications tailored to Van Moer’s evolving needs, scalable structure that adapts to new sites, services, and reporting requirements
Looking Ahead
Van Moer is expanding its use of Board to include:
- Financial consolidation of two holding companies
- CSRD-compliant ESG reporting
- Integration of additional data sources
- Expansion to broader ESG KPIs and carbon insetting
Partner Perspective: PlanPulse
Board partner PlanPulse is committed to helping businesses like Van Moer Logistics unlock the full potential of integrated business planning. Their solutions enable companies to align financial and sustainability targets, ensuring profitable and responsible growth in a rapidly changing industry.
“We really enjoyed working with Van Moer Logistics on this project. It was a constructive and hands-on collaboration, with lots of valuable input from their team throughout the process. The project wasn’t without challenges—multiple ERP systems without a centralized data warehouse, high data volumes down to invoice level, and the need for reloads during the day—but together we made it work.” says Niels from PlanPulse.
Niels Vlemmings
The result is a solution that not only meets their needs but is also fully maintainable by the client. Thanks to user-friendly input screens and a robust structure, Van Moer's team can now manage their own data in Board with confidence and efficiency.
