About
Vangelder Solutions BV is run by Stephane Vangelder and his sons Pieter-Jan and Gert-Jan, from offices in Nieuwkerken-Waas, Belgium. Below — the people, their path, the company, the way to reach us.
The founders
Co-founder · CEO, 360 Solutions
Pieter-Jan leads 360 Solutions with a clear commercial vision: connect platform capability directly to enterprise value. He drives strategy, builds customer relationships, and sets the direction for the brand's long-term growth.
Founder · Strategic Architect
An engineer who became an ERP practitioner and then an AI builder. Started in 1997 in mold-design engineering, moved through manufacturing purchasing and Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations on the customer side, and in 2019 crossed to the implementation-partner side as a regional manager at an established Microsoft Dynamics partner. Founded Vangelder Solutions in 2023 with his sons. Still an engineer at heart — designs in Fusion 360, prints in 3D, and writes the MCP servers that the family company's products run on.
The founder's path
Most Microsoft consultancies start from the IT side and learn the customer's manufacturing world. Stephane Vangelder came the other way. Here's the path that ended up at Vangelder Solutions BV — and why it matters that the founder of a Microsoft Partner spent his first decade designing the moulds that make the products their customers actually sell.
Mould design engineer
Started his career in injection-mould design at Tupperware's Belgian manufacturing operation. Learned the discipline of parametric thinking, mould-flow analysis, and the unforgiving feedback loop of physical CAD where a wrong dimension means a scrapped tool. The engineer's instinct that still shapes how he designs software today started here.
Purchaser & work-preparation manager, in-house toolshop
Moved into the operational side of manufacturing — running purchasing and production prep for Deceuninck's in-house toolshop. Learned the supply-chain and shop-floor reality of the same physical-product world he'd been designing for. ERP became part of daily life.
Lead buyer & project manager
Twelve years at Boucherie that included guiding the company through two Microsoft Dynamics NAV implementations — NAV 2009, then NAV 2017 — from the customer side. Not as an external consultant, but as the project manager owning the implementation, the buying decisions, and the daily reality of using the system afterwards. This is where the BC story actually started.
Regional manager
Crossed from customer-side BC user to the implementation-partner side of the Microsoft ecosystem — taking a regional-manager role at an established Microsoft Dynamics partner, launching their new regional office from scratch. Still active in the partner ecosystem today.
Independent BC advisory, alongside the day job
Started Vangelder Consultancy as an independent advisory practice the same year — not in competition with that partner role, but to take on the small custom-app and advisory work that fell outside a large implementation partner's natural scope.
Family business with Pieter-Jan and Gert-Jan
Wound down Vangelder Consultancy and founded Vangelder Solutions BV with Pieter-Jan as co-director. The studio model — senior expertise, productized where it makes sense, custom-built when it doesn't, refer BC implementation to firms that do it well.
Fusion 360 · 3D printing · MCP servers
Designs parametric tooling in Fusion 360, prints it on a 3D printer in his workshop, and writes the MCP servers that turn his Fusion designs into something Claude can drive on behalf of customers. The Fusion 360 Rim Designer in 360 Solutions' portfolio is the clearest single artifact of how this whole arc fits together — engineering, ERP, and AI as one continuous discipline.
“Most of what we build at Vangelder Solutions is software. But I think about it the way I learned to think about moulds — every dimension is load-bearing, every surface meets another surface for a reason, and you don't ship anything until the geometry actually works.”
The Company
Get in touch
For project work, SaaS trials, or platform enquiries, visit 360 Solutions. For corporate, press, or partnership matters, write to us at contact@vangeldersolutions.be.
