Overall Logistic & Transport Exellence Award

Logistics and Transport Leader Award

Logistics and Transport Team of the Year

Freight Forwarding Team of the Year

Logistics Company of the Year

This award recognises the logistics company that has worked best to achieve a significant goal or achievement in any aspect of freight transport, including operations, processes and service, in any mode or combination of modes.

In your 5 page submission please describe the details of your work from the above mentioned perspective.

Transport Company of the Year

This award recognises the transport operator that has made real progress over the last year. If your organisation has been doing especially well, or if you have launched a new initiative or achieved a significant goal, we want to hear from you. The award is open to all types of transport business – road, rail, air or water based, and covering freight or passengers.

In your 5 page submission explain and quantify your achievements over the last year, and explain why you feel you deserve to win the award.

Freight Forwarding Company of the Year

Logistics and Transport Client/Supplier Achievement Award

• The challenge
• What was set out to be achieved
• What was achieved
• How collaboration was successfully embedded into the challenge

Supply Chain Achievement Award

This award is for outstanding achievement in managing the integration of supply chains from procurement through manufacturing to final delivery to the consumer,including reverse logistics. This could include integration of the total supply chain covering either one or several organisations.

In your 5 page submission please describe all key points of your excellence in this area.

Freight Forwarding Client/Supplier Achievement Award

This award will recognise the collaborative efforts of a freight forwarding organisation and an external supplier/service provider that has led to a best in class supply chain solution, operation or process. Success will have been brought about via innovation, development or customisation.

When making your 5 page submission, please consider the following points:

• The challenge
• What was set out to be achieved
• What was achieved
• How collaboration was successfully embedded into the challenge

Technology Award

This award is for promoting excellence and outstanding achievement in the use of materials handling equipment and technology at any stage throughout the supply chain, including raw materials, manufacturing, distribution and retail operations.

Your 5 page submission should demonstrate technological improvements in design and equipment, but equally, operational improvements derived from using materials handling equipment and technology.

Innovation in Action Award

This award recognises a logistics or transport project, action or initiative that has demonstrated true innovation. The award is presented to the team that can demonstrate a distinct new method or approach to a challenging issue.

In your 5 page submission please describe the details of your work from the above mentioned perspective.

Safety Award

This awards is for an outstanding achievement in any area of safety improvement. This may include programmes which lead to a demonstrable improvement in safety standards either within one organisation, trading partners or the wider community; particularly those which are sustainable, transferable or which demonstrate an innovative approach.

In your 5 page submission please describe the details of your work from the above mentioned perspective.

Employer of the Year

This award will go to the logistics or transport company that people most want to work for. So if you are proud of the way you look after your employees, and you believe you provide excellent staff facilities, HR support and lots of professional development and training - be sure to enter. In your 5 page submission explain your personnel strategy, how you recruit, train, motivate, communicate, reward and retain staff, and identify the ‘little extras' you offer that sets you apart from your competitors. If you have done any surveys or benchmarking of staff satisfaction levels include the key results. If you have introduced any new employee initiatives or innovations that you're particularly proud of, be sure to mention these.

Entries can be submitted by organisations direct, or staff can nominate a company on their behalf. If you are nominating the firm you work for please ensure the directors know about this and are happy for their name to be put forward.

Communications Award

This new award recognises the best communications campaign undertaken in the logistics or transport sectors. The award is open to external communications campaigns, or internally focussed ones aimed at staff. And it might involve a clever advertising or PR campaign, or work you have done involving online, social media, events or other techniques.

In your 5 page submission be sure to explain the campaign's initial objectives and targets, the strategy you adopted and why, and please quantify the results you have achieved. You might also want to include examples of any creative material you produced.

Green Mover Award

This award is for an outstanding achievement in the reduction of environmental impact. In your 5 page submission, please include the following aspects:

1. Reduction in emissions, including disposal methods
2. Reduction in packaging or other waste (including recycling)
3. Improved sustainability of products or operations
4. Staff involvement in improvement programmes

Workforce Commuting Initiative

This award is for the employer who makes the most outstanding contribution to enabling and encouraging their employees to commute to & from work in a sustainable manner.

In your 5 page word submission please describe all aspects of your activity in this area.

Future Achiever Award

This award is for outstanding achievements beyond that which is normally expected from managers of this age and experience. It is for excellence in any of the functions relating to the management of logistics and transport; including both operational management and supporting functions. ‘Young' is defined as someone who, on 31st December 2011, is not more than 35 years old.

The winner can be nominated by themselves or anyone inside or outside their organization or involved in transport and logistics in the wider context that believes the individual concerned has made a significant contribution via their own activities or influence to the advancement of the industry.

In your 5 page submission please explain why the nominee deserves the award.

Education Award

This award is for the third level institute which has offered the most innovative and relevant courses in our industry.

In your 5 page submission please detail the goals and objectives your programme embodies as well any other information that marks out your course both relevant to the logistics and transport sectors and any related innovative elements.