CATEGORIES

Logistics Leader

The winning individual or company in this category will be recognised, proven industry leaders in the area of logistics strategy and supply chain management.

Top Third Party Logistics Provider (3PL)

Many businesses have identified logistics as a strategic point of benefit for their company. Along with warehousing, transport and distribution, providers of the future will offer integrated, end-to-end solutions enabling significant operational and cost performance improvements. This award recognises innovative approaches taken by Australian 3PLs, LLPs or 4PLs to develop relationships and technologies that afford clients significant competitive advantage.

Young Professional of the Year

This category provides an opportunity for a young logistics industry recruit to demonstrate excellence in the provision of services, development of strategy or supply chain management including consulting services.

Technology Application

Voice directed order picking, RFID, GPS, smart conveyors and modular automated warehousing systems are just some of the recent advances in supply chain and distribution technology. New software systems provide functionality and control or simulate forecasts and test concepts. Winners in this category will have creatively applied a technology to leverage competitive advantage for their own business or that of a client.

Best Green Initiative

The transport sector represents one of Australia’s fastest growing sources of emissions. Winners in this category will have demonstrated a highly innovative approach to ‘greening’ the supply chain, including waste reduction, through a specific project within the organisation. Consideration will also be given approaches taken to measuring environmental and/or carbon footprint.

Warehousing and/or Storage Solution 

No good product supplier gets by without a warehouse, or without outsourcing their warehousing to a third-party supplier. But, it’s very difficult to keep a warehouse in tip-top shape, especially with new products coming and going, peak seasons and special conditions in which certain products must be kept. This category rewards technology/solution suppliers, and warehouse operations themselves for developing or installing a smart warehousing system that helps hike productivity, supply, safety and above all your business’s and your customer’s bottom line.

Materials Handling Solution

Materials handling is the backbone of any supply chain strategy and is often the area where potential cost savings are rife. Materials handling comes in the form of many systems, including: bulk handling solutions; data capture & labeling; factory materials handling systems; forklifts, stackers & trolleys; hazardous goods handling systems; packaging & packaging equipment; and warehousing equipment. This new category helps to reward those often unsung heroes who supply or implement a smart materials handling solution that helps boost safety, efficiency, sustainability and the bottom line of their business and/or their customer’s.

Supply Chain Innovation 

Supercharging your supply chain can save millions of dollars in the long-run. What initiatives has your company taken to improve its supply chain, and reap customer benefits as a result? This category will reward companies that have implemented new or upgraded existing technologies, solutions or theories to their company’s supply chain, which has resulted in a measurable and positive outcome for their business.

Best of the Best

The winner in this category will selected from among all finalists as the highest overall achiever of the group.