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.
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The Individual Contribution Award is unique in that the winner is chosen by a vote of the readers of Supply Chain Standard.
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.
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.
Supply chain collaboration will be a key theme of industrial activity over the next ten years, according the UK’s Confederation of British Industry.
The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards, which took place on Thursday, broke all records this year – more entries than ever before, more companies making it to the shortlist, and more people at the Awards dinner than ever before.
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.
If nothing else, this recession has emphasised the critical role supply chains play in the smooth running of the economy. As credit became more scarce, so buyers had to become more creative, and indeed, more supportive, of suppliers in order to secure the
“We’re now seeing the downside of years of outsourcing, extended supply chains and focus on core competency; organisations are now much more vulnerable to supply chain disruption than in the past.”
