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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This year there were only two companies that met the strict criteria for reaching the shortlist in the Sourcing & Procurement category.
The second of the Innovation categories considered the wider, more strategic, supply chain innovations that have been deployed to best effect.
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.
For the second year running, German companies dominated the Aerospace, Defence, Industrial & Automotive category.
Exemplary customer service is central to supply chain excellence, and this Award certainly offered a fine selection of initiatives aimed at driving up customer satisfaction levels.
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.
Americana International, which owns the Bench clothing brand, has chosen Clipper Logistics to run its UK warehousing and transport operations.
Customer demand collaboration, and supply chain risk minimisation are the two most important strategic issues facing supply chain professionals, according to an analysis by PRTM of the detailed entries of more than 100 companies for the European Supply Ch
Fashion clothing company All Saints has taken a 82,909 sq ft distribution unit on O12 Larkfield Ltd c/o Rugby Asset Management’s 320,000 sq ft Larkfield Mill industrial estate in Aylesford, Kent.
