Kris Van Ransbeek

Co-founder Streamliner | Transform your supply chain into a commercial advantage.

Wemmel, Flemish Region, Belgium

About

With a career spanning over two decades, I’ve held executive roles across leading food manufacturers (Chiquita, Reckitt, Wonderful Brands) and top-tier retailers (Carrefour, Maxeda), building deep expertise in supply chain, operations, IT, and general management. My passion lies in aligning business strategy with operational excellence—leveraging technology and digital collaboration to drive measurable impact. In 2017, I founded Cadena Consulting to help organizations bridge the gap between strategic vision and supply chain execution. In 2020, I co-founded Streamside, a supply chain IT company behind Streamliner (www.streamliner.cloud)—a platform that enables seamless digital collaboration across supply chain partners. I hold a Civil Engineering degree from VUB Brussels, an MBA from Vlerick Business School, and am a certified Director via Guberna. Having lived and worked across Europe, I now reside in Brussels with my wife and two children.

Experience

  • Co-Founder at Streamliner
    Sep 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 10 mos

    Cofounder, Commercial Director and Responsible for Product Roadmap Strategy. We connect and enable collaboration among your internal teams, suppliers, and partners—even when they are numerous and widely dispersed. Our workflows cross company boundaries and systems (ERP, WMS, TMS) to ensure your critical flows run smoothly without disruption, delays, or extra costs, even during the most sensitive times. 1. Elimination of your Detention and Demurrage (D&D) fees. You regain control of your port flows: prioritize your container releases based on warehouse capacity and your business priorities. You control costs at the port and during multimodal pre- and post-carriage transport. 2. Dock appointment scheduling, from order to truck. You eliminate yard congestion and waiting times. You track your orders end-to-end and provide real-time visibility to your internal departments and partners. Zero waiting, zero defects.

  • Founder at Cadena Consulting bvba
    Oct 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 9 mos

    Cadena Consulting helps companies cascade the business strategy onto the supply chain and support them in defining the supply chain goals, compelling strategies and setting the right metrics. Cadena Consulting helps to uncover the missing capabilities, competences, processes, tools and infrastructure that inhibit the supply chain to support the business strategy’s implementation and build agile transformation programs to guide the change towards the defined end-state.

  • AgroFair (Barendrecht)
    • President of the supervisory board
      Jan 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

      Europe-wide importer and distributor of Fairtrade and organic tropical fresh fruit from Africa and Latin America, co-owned by its farmers.

    • Member of the Supervisory Board
      Dec 2014 - Dec 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Europe-wide importer and distributor of Fairtrade and organic tropical fresh fruit from Africa and Latin America, co-owned by its farmers.

  • Value Creation Director a.i. at METRO AG
    Feb 2020 - Aug 2020 · 7 mos

  • Supply Chain Director a.i. at METRO AG
    Nov 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    Supply Chain Director of the Makro-Metro group in Belgium, responsible for planning, logistics and master data