Operational Excellence Award

Achievements in enhancing the bottom-line, maximising customer satisfaction, reducing cost, increasing market share and gaining leadership position though strategic supply chain implementation will be key factors in this award. Measurable components of implementation for business processes along the supply chain through outcomes (stock turns, availability, etc), enablers (S&O Planning) and IT infrastructure (supporting investments) will also be key measures.

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Supply Chain Innovation Award

This award promotes greater lateral and expansive thinking in supply chain management. It will reward a company that has thought “outside the box” when solving supply chain challenges or driving value through the supply chain. Possible areas in which such innovative excellence can be achieved include co-ordinating business functions across the supply chain and developing mutually beneficial ways to strengthen supply chain relationships. Businesses will be rewarded for delivering success through pioneering and original supply chain techniques.

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Best Value Chain Solutions Provider

The judges will be looking for examples where solution providers have demonstrated excellence and innovation in addressing a significant supply chain challenge; the results of which can be quantified and proved to be sustainable in terms of cost savings, revenue and customer satisfaction. Aspects of clearly defined service standards and suitable remedies, as well as the ability to provide bespoke solutions for unique challenges outside the traditional domain of complexities will be expected.

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Sourcing Excellence Award

This award recognises sourcing and procurement as a vital strategic lever in the twenty-first century enterprise, driving business forward into the economic upturn. The judges will be looking for evidence of best-in-class strategic sourcing, where businesses have been able to realise substantial cost savings and generate value for the enterprise through innovative and effective supplier relationship management, successful risk management techniques and consistent ethical practice.

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Best Collaborative Practice Award

This award recognises a company or partnership for its achievements in driving supply chain excellence through collaborative frameworks, resulting in improved business performance. With a focus on shared problem-solving using a new process or technique, this award celebrates a true partnership, especially at the relationship-trust level. Both sides must have gone beyond the terms of their contract to help and support each other; sharing risk and reward, as well as each other's resources to produce substantive results with commercial potential/application.

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Supply Chain Skills Award

Even with the most up-to-date technology available, it is the people within the supply chain workforce that ultimately drive the success of the twenty-first century value chain. With an ever-growing “skills vacuum”, exacerbated by negative perceptions of supply chain and logistics, the judges will be looking to the business and academic worlds for success in developing the definitive skillset through inspiring leadership, innovative training, proactive recruitment techniques, as well as successful change management across the workforce.

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Green Supply Chain Award

Recognising the bottom-line value that a “green” supply chain delivers, this category rewards those companies which have demonstrated unparalleled performance in environmental supply chain planning and execution. This will include compliance with regulations, minimising waste from the supply chain process as well as the overall adoption of green practices across the chain. Entrants will need to illustrate success in cutting their carbon footprint, in turn presenting how they have transformed the green agenda into a business opportunity to drive profitability and deliver value.

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Supply Chain Team of the Year Award

Internal collaboration is just as critical as external collaboration when delivering an innovative, speedy and responsive supply chain. This prestigious award recognises the importance of teamwork within the business for long-term supply chain success. The winning team for this category will need to illustrate how it overcame a significant challenge through internal collaboration and communication, working as a cohesive, effective unit to mitigate risks, overcome obstacles and, ultimately, deliver tangible results for the business.

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