This year there were only two companies that met the strict criteria for reaching the shortlist in the Sourcing & Procurement category.
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From a slow start a few years ago, the Contribution to Environmental Improvement category is now one of the most active, with a growing number of very worthy entries.
Exemplary customer service is central to supply chain excellence, and this Award certainly offered a fine selection of initiatives aimed at driving up customer satisfaction levels.
As may have been expected, the Logistics & Fulfilment category received a great number of entries again this year – and hence, the shortlist was long, making the judges’ task that much harder.
The second of the Innovation categories considered the wider, more strategic, supply chain innovations that have been deployed to best effect.
Innovation is always a difficult category for the judges – mainly because it’s difficult to determine what an innovative step is, exactly, as opposed to the application of known technology or methods.
Integrating two businesses in the teeth of a recession is not the easiest of jobs, but Norbert Dentressangle has also been able to pick up new logistics business at the same time. Malcolm Wilson, chief executive of Norbert Dentressangle Logistics in the U
The Individual Contribution Award is unique in that the winner is chosen by a vote of the readers of Supply Chain Standard.
The government’s Carbon Reduction Strategy is a rare chance for logistics to be the good guys.
The Team of the Year can come from any area of supply chain and this year the judges chose to shortlist four outstanding entries: British Sky Broadcasting, Belron, Carlsberg UK in partnership with Gist; and Procter & Gamble.
