Among this year’s finalists, two entries stood-out for the Sourcing and Procurement Award – Nuon, from the public sector, utilities and services pool, and Vodafone.
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FMCG is always one of the hardest-fought categories in the Awards, and this year was no exception.
We were greatly heartened this year to see both a significant increase in the overall quantity and quality of entries to the Awards, reflected in a shortlist of finalists some 50 per cent greater than last year. The judges were also delighted to have
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.
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
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.
