A moment’s thought will reveal that, despite there being almost 40 shortlisted Finalists in this year’s Awards, the Overall winner can only be one of the sectoral group winners. So the judges were faced with seven possibles.
Browsing: Supply Chain
The consumer manufacturing sector (FMCG/CPG) has a curious history over the decade of the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards – we tend to receive a core of good, solid entries, but very often lacking, perhaps, that ”sparkle” that sets them apart.
The Retail & Distribution category is always hard-fought in the ESCE Awards, and this year was no exception. Retailers live and die by supply chain effectiveness – a product out of stock, whether at the shelves of a conventional store or in the warehouses
An innovation this year has been the separation of telecommunication company entries into a separate industry category – the reasoning being that we have found in previous years that this important sector falls uneasily between hi-tech manufacturing, util
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
The environment in which UK grocery retailers operate is changing – quite literally – and that means big changes ahead for logistics suppliers. These changes were highlighted at the Institute of Grocery Distribution’s convention last month. Malory Davies
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.
Samsung has taken its new material handling system for small electronics and spare parts into operation in its new DC in Breda, the Netherlands.
The Healthcare category produced four shortlisted finalists, although for reasons that are obscure, one fancied entry didn”t continue through the assessment procedure.
