The advantages of doing more with less and seeking efficiencies are self-evident, and there are many ways to undertake a journey towards cost reduction while maintaining and improving reliability and customer satisfaction. This award category seeks to recognize companies that are doing something exceptional in the way they bring lean philosophies to their supply chain.
Building and maintaining environmentally conscious supply chain policies offers opportunities for both responsible development and a positive impact on the bottom line. This award seeks to recognize companies whose supply chain and logistics strategies have produced ROI through reduced energy and fuel consumption, water usage, waste output, and/or carbon footprint.
Please note: this category is open to both single and joint submissions. Companies wishing to apply without their business partner(s) should include a short endorsement from their partner(s) with their application.
Collaboration is a growing trend for supply chain executives, and there are many factors that determine success: Clear communication, building trust, dividing responsibilities, sharing both risk and reward, and seeking win-win solutions to common challenges are all worthy of recognition and celebration. This award recognizes companies that have improved business performance based upon a mutually beneficial collaborative partnership.
Please note: this category is open to both supply chain executives and vendors. Solution provider entrants will be required to include a client endorsement to be considered for the award.
Bringing specialized expertise to enhance performance is a common tactic among supply chain executives. Rolling out a new solution that produces a positive impact on KPIs and the bottom line is worthy of celebration: This award category seeks to recognize companies that have gone above and beyond in their contributions towards a supply chain improvement.
Please note: this category is open to both supply chain executives and vendors. Solution provider entrants will be required to include a client endorsement to be considered for the award.
The right tool for the job can make all the difference in the world: This award category seeks to recognize companies that have found a technological solution to a challenge, creating major improvements to supply chain performance as a result.
Increasingly there is a trend for supply chains to stop pushing throughput, preferring instead to respond to the pull of a client’s needs. This dynamic shift to a demand-driven customer-centric model requires a host of new skills and thought processes. This award category seeks to recognize companies that have found success shaping their supply chain to support customers’ requirements.
The last several years have shown that global emergencies –both natural and man-made—that can wreak havoc on company productivity. It has fallen to supply chain executives to seek out ways to build new capabilities into their processes: Alternatives, redundancies, and backups to ensure reliability of critical assets in any crisis. This award category seeks to recognize companies that have developed a supply chain prepared to keeps things moving even in the face of adversity.
Many things inspire innovations in supply chain excellence: Sometimes a crowded marketplace requires outside-the-box thinking to offer a crucial competitive advantage; other times, necessity is the mother of invention; every now and again, someone just comes up with a better way of doing business. Whatever the motivation, this award category seeks to recognize companies that have pioneered new frontiers to make their supply chain into a shining example of what can be achieved through the application of world-class planning, implementation, and management.
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