Michiel Hensen and Sander Siemons have won the Dutch Logistics Thesis Award during the vLm Management Congres. Hensen won with his research at Agristo NV, while Siemons distinguished himself with his thesis for ORTEC.
On Wednesday 13 June, the awards were presented at the vlm Logistics Management Congress, with the winner of the bachelor's thesis being Michiel Hensen of NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences. He won with the scripte 'Sales and operations planning from potato processing to production planning at Agristo NV.
Sander Siemons from Tilburg University won the award for the best master thesis with his thesis 'Robust solutions of the vehicle routing problem with time windows at ORTEC - Optimize Your World'.
Every year, vLm awards a prize to the author of the best bachelor's and master's thesis with 'logistics' as the main topic. With this prize, the association hopes to encourage students and learning institutions to achieve top performance and thus reduce the gap between theory and practice.
The bachelor thesis focuses on added value for the organisation and solving practical problems. For master's theses, a clear contribution to science and innovation is of great importance.
This year, the jury was led by jury chairmen Stef Weijers (Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen) and Wout Dullaert (VU Amsterdam) and was able to choose from no fewer than 11 bachelor and 14 master theses this edition.
