Skretting’s global procurement team, headquartered in Stavanger in Norway, is now at full capacity.
Individual feeds for aquaculture may contain up to 50 macro and micro ingredients to ensure the specific nutritional requirements are met and the company now has more than 1000 ingredients in its global portfolio.
“In general our objective is to support our operating companies to procure as best as they can,” said Robert van den Breemer, Skretting procurement director. “We are a united and diverse team, in touch with the needs and requirements of Skretting customers and colleagues in commercial, marketing, research and quality,” he added.
The central procurement team now comprises five category managers who track the market and work with key suppliers to support operating companies with procurement.
Last year, Skretting announced the appointment of Jenna Bowyer for novel ingredients, joining Anne-Marie Johnson (vegetable ingredients) and Erik Aanensen (marine ingredients). Since then, Amber Zheng has joined the team to focus on land animal products, in addition to Geert van Houte for functional ingredients.
The team also has four project managers and a data engineer and is working closely with Skretting’s aquaculture research centre, streamlining the insertion of new ingredients into the systems and therefore feeds.
