Author: Alexandra Leonards

The High-Technology and Electronics sector has a track record of producing outstanding finalists in these Awards, and very often the overall winner as well. It has sometimes been claimed (regardless of who our assessment partners have been) that the judgi

This category of entry may appear something of a mixed bag – what unites them is that they all work under constraints – legal or regulatory, and of course that great arbiter, public opinion – that can limit their freedom to operate in quite the way that p

We arrived with four finalists in what, we must admit, is a bit of a ”mish-mash” of a category, but is essentially the engineering industries and their supply bases. None the less, the assessors believe they have identified a worthy winner.

The Healthcare category produced four shortlisted finalists, although for reasons that are obscure, one fancied entry didn”t continue through the assessment procedure.

Teamwork can mean almost anything – who hasn”t been baffled by a job application asking you to ”demonstrate teamwork”? It”s safe to say though that any organisation making it onto the shortlist of finalists in these Awards must be displaying teamwork

The Outstanding Contribution category of the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards is very different from all the others: you, our readers, nominate the candidates, and you vote by email for the winner (and none of those shenanigans that other less repu

As Gordon Colborn has noted in his commentary, we were slightly disappointed that, again this year, few entries went out of their way to promote the environmental, sustainability or wider Corporate Social Responsibility aspects of their submissions.

By definition, almost any finalist in these Awards (with the exception of a few purely procurement-oriented organisations) must be fairly good at ”logistics and fulfilment” – although that is by no means the total supply chain, it is certainly the core

Innovation, in the context of the Supply Chain Excellence Awards, isn”t the same thing as invention. Naturally, if an entry does offer something radically new, whether in terms of processes or technology, that would be a good recommendation for this awar

Robin Proctor, group supply chain director at Travis Perkins, says the supply chain in the buildings and construction sector is underdeveloped compared with other areas.