JP Purchasing Consultancy provides purchasing consulting services for hotels, including furniture, fixtures, and equipment ordering; installations; negotiations with operational suppliers; and purchasing restructuring. The company has experience with hotel openings, refurbishments, and working with hotel groups like The Vincent Hotel Group and Apollo Hotels & Resorts. JP Purchasing Consultancy's owner, Jan Piet Jacobi, has over 40 years of experience in hotel purchasing and operations.

1. JP Purchasing Consultancy takes care of the following activities:
• Hotel openings
• FF&E and OS&E ordering
• FF&E Installations
• F&B revenue consultant
• Negotatiations operational suppliers
• Purchasing re-structering and co-ordination within individual hotels, hotel
groups and Hospitality related businesses
• Product development

2. 2013 activities:
• Purchasing consultant FF&E for The Vincent
Hotel Group (Dutch Hotel Partners)
• Purchasing Consultant at Womitex BV, The
Netherlands, Belgium and Germany

3. The Vincent Hotel group
• Opening hotels 2013:
• Hampton by Hilton Amsterdam Schiphol
• Hampton by Hilton Amsterdam Arena Station
• Holiday Inn Express Rotterdam Central Station
• Holiday Inn Express Arnhem
• Hotels in progress in Amsterdam, Maastricht,
Groningen, Almere, Rotterdam, The Hague,
Haarlem, Eindhoven etc.

4. Hampton by Hilton Amsterdam
Arena-Boulevard
opening May 16

5. Hampton by Hilton Amsterdam
Airport Schiphol
opening April 25

6. Holiday Inn Express Rotterdam
Central Station
opening May 2

7. Holiday Inn Express Arnhem
opening April 11

8. Holiday Inn Express The Hague Parliament

9. Holiday Inn Express Amsterdam South

10. Holiday Inn Express Utrecht Papendorp

11. Recent activities
• 2012 January - present FF&E purchasing for The Vincent Hotel Group
• 2010 March-present Womitex BV, Womitex GmbH, purchasing
consultancy, contract management re-structuring.
• Purchasing planning and negotiations period 2011-2014
• Development of new products
• 2010, January/February Food & Beverage revenue consultant for Crowne
Plaza Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
• 2009 Womitex BV, Womitex GmbH, re-structuring purchasing for both
The Netherlands and Germany.
• 2008 Purchasing set-up for Apollo Hotels and resorts Benelux

12. Crowne Plaza Causeway Bay Hong Kong
Food & Beverage consultancy 2010

13. • Womitex is the first linen management company to have a
complete professional and certified ecologic and Fairtrade
range of products available for the hospitality industry.

14. Hotel opening projects
2008 Parker International Europe, Amsterdam
(january – june)
Involved in following hotelopening projects:
• Radisson SAS Zürich, Switzerland
• Hilton The Hague, the Netherlands
• Citizen M Amsterdam Schiphol, The Netherlands
• Sheraton Barcelona, Spain
• Sheraton Athlone ,Ireland
• Sheraton Bratislava, Slovakia

15. Radisson Sas Zurich, Hilton The Hague, Citizen M Schiphol
Sheraton Barcelona, Sheraton Athlone, Sheraton Bratislava

16. Apollo Hotels & Resorts
• Set up purchasing from zero for 11 hotels in
Benelux
• Period June 1 2008 up to December 31 2008

17. Apollo Hotels & Resorts
2008

18. Hotel openings
2003 Crowne Plaza Brussel Airport
2007 Holiday Inn Amsterdam Schiphol
Activities:
• Purchasing activities as Regional Purchasing Manager, mainly operational
equipment
• Negotiations with suppliers for all operational issues.
• Designer: HD Design

19. Holiday Inn Amsterdam Schiphol

20. Crowne Plaza Brussel Airport

21. Hotel refurbishment
2007 The Dylan Amsterdam, former Blakes Hotel
(no designer involved, self supporting)
Activities:
• New, more practical and comfortable design in the hotel rooms:
• Seatings
• Desks
• Beds
• Lighting
• Wall covering
• Bathrooms

22. The Dylan Amsterdam

23. Hotel opening
1994 Schloss Hotel Vierjahreszeiten
Berlin, Germany
Activities:
• Purchasing activities FF&E and OS&E from London IPS office
• FF&E installation, 4 months Berlin
• Designers: Ezra Attia, Karl Lagerfeld

24. Schloss Hotel Vierjahreszeiten Berlin

25. Hotel opening
1992 Amstel InterContinental Amsterdam
Activities:
• € 48 Million project
• Full purchase FF&E, new, renovated and antique
• Full purchase OS&E
• FF&E Installation
• Budget control
• Designer: Pierre-Yves Rochon

26. Amstel InterContinental Amsterdam

27. Negotiation operational issues:
(not limited to)
• Cleaning (Rooms and Public area’s)
• Linen (owned or lease)
• Chemicals
• Disposables
• Guest Amenities
• Technical Supplies
• Office Supplies / Furniture
• Printing & Stationary
• Fresh Food, total package
• Beer, soft drinks, mineral water, hard liquor etc.
• Wines
• Wastage
• Public toilet supplies

28. Supplier negotiations
2008 Apollo Hotels & Resorts
11 hotels in The Netherlands & Belgium)
Activities:
• Co-ordination between the hotels from the purchasing side
• Contract negotiations on major operational issues, such as but not limited
to:
• Fresh Food, Beer, mineral water and soft drinks, wastage, linen,
disposables and chemicals
• Proven savings achieved in 6 months
>€ 400.000,-

29. Supplier negotiations
2007 Westbridge Hotels Europe
28 hotels in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain and Italy.
Crowne Plaza Amsterdam City Centre joined the purchasing group.
Activities:
• Fresh Food, Beer, mineral water, soft drinks, wastage, linen, disposables
and chemicals, Car park, technical supplies
• Proven savings: € 260.000,-

30. Supplier negotiations
1999 – 2006 InterContinental Hotels Group Benelux area
11 hotels of which 4 hotels in Belgium, 7 in The Netherlands
InterContinental, Crowne Plaza, Holiday Inn
Activities:
• All purchasing issues and contract negotiations, F&B, Rooms, Technical.
Proven savings:
• 2004 >€ 250.000,-
• 2005 >€ 200.000,-
• 2006 >€ 400.000,-

31. Back ground experience
• 1970-1972 Kitchen trainee
• 1972-1976 Commis de cuisine/chef de partie
• 1976-1980 Restaurant Waiter, hotel receptionist, Chef reception,
Assistant Manager
• 1980-1988 Chief Steward, F&B Cost Control, Duty Manager,
Banqueting Manager, Ass. F&B Manager, F&B Manager,
Purchasing Manager
• 1986-2006 Regional Purchasing Manager, member Executive Team
(for details, see projects)
• 2007-present Owner JP Purchasing Consultancy
(for details, see projects)

32. References
• Rob Spiekerman
• Director of Operations
• InterContinental Hotels Group
• Hanghzhou, China
• 008613958029260
• Rob.Spiekerman@ihg.com
• Christian Beek
• Directeur Général / CEO
• Glion Institute of Higher Education
• Rue de l'Ondine no 20
• CH - 1630 Bulle
• 004179 201 1074
• christian.beek@glion.ch
• Heinz O. Strobl
• Former COO InterContinental Hotels
• Kastanjelaan 12
• 2061 ER Bloemendaal
• The Netherlands
• 0031650641039
• Heinz_Strobl@hotmail.com
• Anthony Nibbelink
• Former DOO InterContinental Hotels
• Kruistraat 110
• Brakel, Belgium
• 0032475245078
• Anthony.Nibbelink@hotmail.com

33. • Company name: JP Purchasing Consultancy BV
• Owner: Jan Piet Jacobi
• Address: L.J.M. Beelstraat 45
1067 WH Amsterdam
The Netherlands
• Email: jacobi10@zonnet.nl
• Telephone: + 31652663360
• Chamber of Commerce: KvK 34260569
• V.A.T.: NL817268698B01
• Tax service number: 085089564
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