A sell-out audience at the Grosvenor House Hotel celebrated excellence as Europe’s top supply chains were revealed at The European Supply Chain Excellence Awards. Jessica Davies, Lucy Tesseras and Nick Allen.
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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
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.
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.
In just six weeks the winners of the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2009 will be announced at a glittering celebration dinner in London before an audience of more than 450 industry leaders.
The big success of an otherwise disappointing business year has been the continued growth of online retail. For many, providing a service has simply been a matter of bolting on the facilities. But times are changing and multi-channel is moving to the co