Annual Awards For Excellence

Logistics Best Practice

Sponsored by Road Haulage Association

For outstanding achievement in any aspect of freight transport, including operations, processes and service, in any mode or combination of modes.

And the winner is:

• Samsung and NYK Logistics (UK) Ltd

Winner - Samsung and NYK Logistics
NYK adopted port-centric logistics to provide Samsung with a step change in logistics performance and market capability, enabling it to enter new market segments.  Reduced road miles, storage costs and process times, support Samsung's aim to realise sales revenue as quickly as possible.  Logistics cost as a percentage of sales has reduced in line with product pricing, and stock integrity has remained at 100% for three years.  Samsung UK is g recognised as the leading subsidiary for supply chain performance, providing European best practice for white goods and global best practice for electronics, resulting in the highest KPIs and lowest cost as % of sales.

Finalists:

• DHL Supply Chain in partnership with Jaguar Land Rover 
  DHL has worked closely with Jaguar Land Rover to overcome a silo culture, establish a business-focussed approach to improvement and provide cost transparency within their joint operations.  Ensuring that best practice was transferred between three manufacturing sites has resulted in a 50% reduction is all health and safety measures, improved quality indicators, and significant cost reductions across; ten development projects have been implemented, without interruption to production or service.  A Learning Academy supports a culture of empowerment so that the changes provide continuous improvement to the benefit of both businesses, enabling them to be more agile.
  
• The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds in partnership with Unipart Logistics
  Building on an established trading organisation, RSPB set out to remodel its supply chain from source to consumer focusing on best practice.  It re-tendered out-sourced operations, and re-located activities to reduce there environmental impact, saving 400,000 miles per annum.  Traditional performance indicators, such as inventory levels and delivery lead-times have improved significantly.  Importantly customer satisfaction, a key driver for the charity, has increased from 66% to 97%, leading to an increase in orders of over 40% and a value increase of over 75%.  Supported by partner, Unipart, RSPB is now taking control of its Far East sourcing and freight.

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