Jaap de Vries
Chief Executive · Mech. Eng.
Quatix Supply was founded in 2009 in Rotterdam by four supply-chain engineers who got tired of watching $40m projects slip on $40,000 parts. We built the firm we wished we could have hired. Today we run global procurement for industrial buyers in 48 countries.
Our co-founders met on a refinery turnaround in Rotterdam in 2007. A critical heat-exchanger bundle was sixteen weeks late, threatening a €38m production loss. They sourced an alternative bundle through a chain of seven phone calls — and delivered it in eleven days.
Two years later Quatix opened on the same dock. The thesis hasn't changed: industrial buyers don't need a marketplace; they need an engineering team with a freight desk.
Seventeen years on, we have shipped 9,400 POs across 1,840 lanes and 48 countries — and we still answer the phone.
Four operating layers, one P&L, one stack — no internal handoffs.
Own the spec, the sourcing strategy and the negotiation. One per account per category.
Audit, qualify and develop a 4,200-supplier panel across five hubs.
24/7 control tower in Rotterdam. Bonded warehousing in five regions.
Independent inspectors on the dock. Every PO above $25k inspected pre-shipment.
All four founders remain at Quatix, operating day-to-day across the five hubs.
Chief Executive · Mech. Eng.
COO · Industrial Eng.
Head of Energy · Chem. Eng.
CFO · Trade Compliance
Written on every PO. Recited at every onboarding. Audited every quarter.
The price we tell the buyer is the price we hold to the supplier. No hidden margin tiers; no PO uplifts; no spot-market gaming on locked POs. The audit trail is open to the client at any time.
No commercial layer between you and the person who actually understands the spec. Procurement engineers own the relationship, the negotiation and the recovery if something goes wrong.
Every PO above $25k is independently inspected at origin before release-for-shipment. Inspection reports are uploaded to the buyer portal within 24 hours of the visit, in full.
Every supplier and beneficial owner is screened against OFAC, EU, UN, UK and Dutch sanction registers — at onboarding and quarterly thereafter. We refuse business we cannot defend.