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
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Late cancellations meant our November Roundtable discussion, supported by DHL-Exel Supply Chain, was somewhat bereft in quantity, but for quality this meant that our ability to drill down into some of the detail of a very idiosyncratic, not to mention lif
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.
The bestLog project, initiated by the European Commission, is making great progress on its way to establishing its core objective – an exchange platform for the improvement of sustainable supply chain management practice across Europe.
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
Samsung has taken its new material handling system for small electronics and spare parts into operation in its new DC in Breda, the Netherlands.
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
Pundits and politicians talk about the need for joined-up thinking, and ERP vendors and systems integrators are equally enthisiastic. But just how joined-up are our supply chains in reality?
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.
