European Award for Logistics Excellence

Introduction

During the last thirteen years, the European Award for Logistics Excellence presented by the European Logistics Association (ELA) has become one of the most prestigious and important European logistics awards. The award winner is the company demonstrating outstanding achievement in logistics and supply chain management.

The Logistics Excellence Award is much sought after by companies throughout Europe. Its recognition of outstanding performance is highly valued by both previous winners and would-be winners alike. The award also provides companies with the opportunity to present their award-worthy concepts on a European stage. In addition, the winning company is entitled to use a symbol logo indicating that they have won the award.

ELA is a federation of 30 national organisations covering almost every country in Central and Western Europe and has regular contact to over 50.000 senior logisticians. The mission of ELA is to act as a network and an open forum for all individuals or companies involved with logistics in Europe and to serve commerce and industry.

To this end, ELA develops ideas and generates stimuli for cross-sector, future-oriented logistics concepts with the aim of underpinning the competitiveness of European companies.

You are invited to enter your company for this prestigious award through your national association.

The Conditions

Conditions of entry "Champions League"

The Award is not restricted to manufacturing or commercial enterprises. Nominations are welcome from the service sector, the armed forces, the public sector, logistics consultancies or any organization that uses logistics.

The scope of the Award is wide. Achievement may be demonstrated by the integration or redesign of a logistics function, or by the innovative use of technology. A company might have introduced a new transport or warehousing system which has revolutionized its logistics function. The Award could be for an improvement in manufacturing logistics, or better use of information flow or communications in logistics.

The ELA Award for Excellence will follow the Champions League system, which means that each ELA national association may submit up to 3 entries. The entries must be prejudged by the respective national association and submitted by them to ELA. Preferably, the entries should already have won national awards or have been in the top three in the national qualifying contest.

Submissions must be written in English and must not exceed 25 A4 pages. By entering, the nominee gives permission for the work to be published by ELA. Each entry must include the Award Registration form with the name of the enterprise and details of the author (name, address, telephone and fax numbers, email address). The format should be in pdf, word or powerpoint. Entries can only be send in by ELA Member Associations.