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.
As always the Consumer &Retail category drew plenty of entries, but when it came to selecting for the shortlist four stood out from the rest.
Americana International, which owns the Bench clothing brand, has chosen Clipper Logistics to run its UK warehousing and transport operations.
Customer demand collaboration, and supply chain risk minimisation are the two most important strategic issues facing supply chain professionals, according to an analysis by PRTM of the detailed entries of more than 100 companies for the European Supply Ch
Fashion clothing company All Saints has taken a 82,909 sq ft distribution unit on O12 Larkfield Ltd c/o Rugby Asset Management’s 320,000 sq ft Larkfield Mill industrial estate in Aylesford, Kent.
The drive to control operating costs and improve efficiencies by global businesses during recession has the potential to create new risk exposures within supply chains according to insurer ACE European Group.
