Network of Ambitious Suppliers

NEVAT: Leading group of Dutch suppliers

NEVAT is a sector association with 250 affiliated top suppliers. The association bubbles with activities that always have to do with three main themes. NEVAT assists its members:

1. In generating new business, national as well as international

2. In making strategic decisions that enable them to be more professional

3. By providing advocacy input to the government for the benefit of industry policy.

NEVAT creates new business

• Within the NEVAT network there is an abundance of mutual supplying and outsourcing.

• NEVAT maintains close relationships with Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) in various industries, both national and international.

• Profiles of member companies are clearly described in the database at www.nevat.nl.

• NEVAT organises activities on a regular basis, to continuously bring together target groups (“Dating in the chain”).

• NEVAT initiates various “eco-systems” in which member companies do quickly and safe business with one another.

NEVAT pursues an active industry policy

• NEVAT has a clear vision with regard to industry policy.

• NEVAT has put innovation financing on the map.

• NEVAT finds that incentive programs should be geared better towards SMEs.

• NEVAT finds that the government can stimulate OEMs to make their technology roadmaps available to SMEs.

• NEVAT thinks that the government can increase the speed of realising knowledge by supporting organisational, technological and process innovation.

• NEVAT played a role in ensuring that the successful WBSO is not only open to technology innovation but also to process innovation.

• NEVAT wants guarantee arrangements instead of subsidies.

NEVAT helps you to professionalise

• Members can participate in the NEVAT Benchmark at no cost.
• The NEVAT Benchmark clarifies in which areas you excel.
• The NEVAT Benchmark shows the areas in which you can improve.

• What is the best fit for your company:
  • Customer intimacy, product leadership or operational excellence?
  • The Benchmark gives the answers.

• The NEVAT Benchmark gives you fuel to develop your strategy.

Purchasers pay attention!

NEVAT likes to share the knowledge that it has from its members with the purchasers so a good match can be achieved quickly. If you are looking for suppliers, NEVAT is the right place to come. On the website www.nevat.nl you will find all profiles of our members in a customer-friendly database.

S&O Congress as a visiting card

NEVAT leaves its visiting card by organising a large S&O Congress for the production industry. This “Crown day of the Production Industry” is attended by suppliers (S) as well as outsourcers (O). The S&O congress gives participants a head start in knowledge and shows what the future of our production industry is.

Active in various industries

NEVAT bundles the powers of 250 top suppliers. These are organised in various industries that all have their own mission, objective and activities. A few examples:

• System Developers
Optimalization of the Development Chain

• System Suppliers
Increasing the market by internationalising the term System Suppliers

• Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS)
Show that the production of electronics in the Netherlands is alive and kicking

• Group Plate Processing Industry
Bundle power, knowledge and experience in order to generate new business

• Precision Machining Industry Netherlands
Use a close network to use the available capacity optimally

• Precision Parts Suppliers
Focus on precision and organize technology meetings

• Holland Automotive
Find and visit new international customers.