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BritishGas winner


shortlisted


Connect Education & Care with ToolsGroup UK


North Middlesex University Hospital NHS


Trust (NMUHT) with Crimson & Co


Nottingham Trent University


Travis Perkins Group with Crossrail


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he Public Sector&Utilities sector covers a broad area and consequently judging entries for thisAward is a particularly difficult task.


However, this year therewas one clearwinner. But therewere strong entries fromNorth


MiddlesexUniversityHospitalNHSTrustwith Crimson&Co and also,Travis Perkins. Bymoving transactional procurement to a shared


service centre,NorthMiddlesexUniversityHospital NHSTrust has enabled its staff to focus on strategic procurement projects, such as equipment procurement for a newmaternity unit and an innovative income generation project.The judges could see close collaboration between five trusts in setting up the shared service centre, but unfortunately, therewas a lack of hard evidence to back up the benefits. Then therewasTravis Perkinswith Crossrail.


Picture: Fromleft: John Harvey CBE fromKeswick Enterprises; David Long, senior project manager;DesDuggan, business improvementmanager (holding the award); JoeMcGuill, senior business changemanager; Jenny Dutton, metering settlements manager;Avi Sengupta, SAP developmentmanager;Dan Healey, head of business change; and hostMartin Bayfield.


Providingmaterials for one of the country’s largest infrastructure projectswas amajor challenge – co- ordinating deliveries using a core fleet of over twenty specialist and compliant vehicles operated froma nucleus of ten strategically located branches. Therewere plenty of examples of good operational practice, but the judgeswanted a littlemore. The sheer scale and complexity of the challenge


facing BritishGas –with theUK government’s requirement for every user to have a SmartMeter – made their entry compelling.Over 50million smart meters are to be installed in homes and small businesses by 2020. A transformed supply chain supports a current national field force of 1300 engineers,with scalability to rapidly ramp-up numbers four-fold.Togetherwith support from


DHL forwarehousemanagement, RoyalMail for national distribution, andTata Consultancy Services for SAP systemchanges, BritishGas has put in place an impressive structure to deliver the required results.The project has driven significant cost avoidance by automatingmanual processes,which reduces the need to recruit significantwarehouse resource to support the scale up plans, andmanual processing for engineers has been reduced by providing themwith a simple ordering catalogue. The judgeswere impressed by the improvements


to inventory andworking capital achieved through the supply chain transformation.They also liked the clarity of the presentation and conviction of the team. But in particular, the judges liked the fact that supply chainwas nowrecognised and embraced at board level andwas clearly influencing business strategy.Without a doubt, thiswas thewinner – the Award had to go to BritishGas.


AUSTERE ENVIRONMENTS & CONTINGENCY LOGISTICS winner


World Food Programme


shortlisted


27 Regiment,Royal Logistic Corps


Evolution Time Critical PJHQ


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hisnewcategory highlighted some outstandingwork,not only fromtheWorld Food Programme but also the Permanent Joint


Headquarters, theRoyal LogisticsCorps and EvolutionTimeCritical. EvolutionTime Critical is a specialist in


emergency logistics for the automotive industry and its entry highlighted the skills it has to offer. The entries fromPermanent JointHeadquarters


Picture: fromleft: Stuart Beeby of Sotheby's;WilliamHart, deputy director government partnerships; NilsVanWassenhove and Sergio Silva, supply chain officers; MirjanaKavelj, chief supply chain office&logistics development, fromtheWorld Food Programme; and hostMartin Bayfield.


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and the Royal Logistics Corps both focused on the military redeployment fromAfghanistan. The Permanent JointHeadquarters developed the high level plan that coalesces the activities of a wide range of defence and third party logistics and engineering providers, delivering an integrated and coherent approach across the supply chain. The Royal Logistics Corps operated the Theatre Logistics Group in Camp Bastion. During this time, the Theatre Logistics Group sustained over 10,000military and civilian personnel by simultaneous air and surface re-supply routes, 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week and in austere environmental conditions. TheUnitedNationsWorld Food Programme


reachesmore than 80million peoplewith food assistance in over 75 countries every year.TheWorld Food Programme’s supply chain is paramount in fulfilling our humanitarianmandate of eradicating


hunger in all its forms. Supply chainmanagement in theWorld Food Programme is an end-to-end process covering all functions and processes startingwith planning, followed by sourcing, and all theway to delivery.The supply chainmanagement functions tie into theWorld Food Programme’s design andmobilisation of resources upstream; implementation of programmes,monitoring and evaluation downstream. The judges said thewinning organisation


achieved very high targets and showed evidence of highly effective strategic processes.The awardwent to theWorld Food Programme.


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