This year’s European Supply Chain Excellence submissions have probably been the highest standard we have ever seen, says Masood Hassan of PRTM. We eventually assessed 63 finalists and spoke with almost 200 supply chain practitioners across a wide spectrum
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The Overall Winner Award is the most highly coveted supply chain award in Europe.
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.
What is standard delivery? It would be natural to assume that there is common understanding of the terms and costs. Certainly, it would be help to customers if there was an agreed definition.
