The Overall Winner Award is the most highly coveted supply chain award in Europe.
Author: Alexandra Leonards
For the second year running, German companies dominated the Aerospace, Defence, Industrial & Automotive category.
This was a hard fought category with four good contenders for the prize.
As always, the Public Sector, Services &Utilities category was a difficult award to judge owing to the great diversity of entries.
Traditionally, the Hi-tech, Communications and Electronics category is the highest scoring sector, and this year certainly didn’t disappoint.
This year there were only two companies that met the strict criteria for reaching the shortlist in the Sourcing & Procurement category.
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.
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.
Telefónica O2 UK has won the overall award in the 2009 European Supply Chain Excellence Awards, organised by Supply Chain Standard in partnership with PRTM.
The judges in the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2009 have released details of the shortlisted companies by category
