SPS 2020

•••6••• Innovationen Supply Chain Management Award Smart Solution Award 2020 The awards ceremony took place on November 11, 2020, at EX- CHAiNGE. The 8th edition of the Supply Chain Summit (November 10–11, 2020) was entirely remote due to coronavirus restrictions as part of the Hypermotion Digital Experience. EXCHAiNGE offered its remote participants continuous lives- treaming of all sessions, discus- sions, and interviews—broadcast from the Kap Europa conference center in Frankfurt. The audience had the opportunity to participate through live chats and was en- couraged above all to vote on the presentations of the eight final- ists for the Supply Chain Awards. As in years past, the audience’s in- put was considered by the jury in its decision. The jury (supply chain practitioners, prominent academ- ics, consultants, industry jour- nalists) chose the winners from among the previously selected finalists: Bayer Pharmaceuticals, BSH Hausgeräte, Electrolux Haus- geräte, and Takeda Pharmaceuti- cals International for the Supply Chain Management Award; and Heureka Business Solutions, robo- minds in collaboration with Daim- ler Trucks, Schubert Additive Solu- tions, and WAKU Robotics for the Smart Solution Award. Supply ChainManage- ment Award 2020 Winner: ELECTROLUX Concept: Electrolux’s solution tar- gets the transformation of the supply chain toward greater cus- tomer-centricity. This includes opti- mizations in seven areas to achieve better service, more flexibility, and transparency along the entire sup- ply chain while monitoring inven- tories. The solutions range from establishing an agile supply chain organization (including a control tower) and intensifying the part- nership with R&D to using digital tools in production and stepping up the integration of suppliers into the production process. Other key success factors of the new custom- er-centric supply chain include ex- cellence in new product launches, inventory management, and stra- tegic approaches customized to each sales channel. Electrolux is one of the leading appliance manu- facturers worldwide (core brands: AEG, Electrolux, Zanussi) and oper- ates 15 production facilities and 41 warehouses with 12,000 employ- ees in production and supply chain operations throughout Europe. “We are very pleased to be recog- nized with this special distinction. The transformation of our supply chain was an important step in our quest to become more customer- centric,” says Dr. Gregor Dudek (Vice President of Supply Chain Management, Electrolux Europe). “It was important for us to look be- yond automation and integration to also consider the human side of this transformation. We opened up silos and nowwork collaboratively in ag- ile, project-specific squads.” “Predictive planning in the supply chain is essential despite the many uncertainties—even more so amid the ongoing coronavirus pandem- ic,” adds Nicolas Lefftz (Logistics Director, Electrolux Europe). “Es- tablishing the control tower gives us the transparency we need. The Supply Chain Management Award is wonderful feedback on a job well done, but it also inspires our resolve to continue working on a customer-centric supply chain at Electrolux.” Voices fromthe jury Presenter Jan Axt (Vice President of Automotive SCM Strategy & In- novation, Continental): “This year’s Supply Chain Management Award honors a structured, end-to-end supply chain transformation. Trans- forming from a traditional supply chain based on production excel- lence with a push principle toward a customer- and service-driven sup- ply chain model is not easy for any company. Electrolux seems to be on the best path toward master- ing this challenge with distinction. At the heart of it all is their focus on organization, employees, agile squads, and other key themes. The successes they’ve scored up to now are already impressive.” Juror Harald Geimer (Partner at PwC Management Consulting): “The Electrolux concept is a tre- mendous example of what a well- structured, comprehensive supply chain transformation can look like. The company was very sensible about defining extremely chal- lenging areas to target in their efforts. Electrolux also chose to put the human factor front and center with its concept of agile squads. The aim, after all, is to es- tablish the necessary capacities. In transformations of this nature, the greatest challenge is often the de- ployment of modern supply chain technology. The overall consisten- cy of the transformation strategy convinced us to honor Electrolux with the Supply Chain Manage- ment Award 2020.” Juror Dr. Petra Seebauer (Manag- ing Director of EUROEXPO Messe- und Kongress-GmbH, Co-Publisher of the trade journal LOGISTIK HEU- TE): “We were impressed by the depth and scope of the transfor- mation project at Electrolux. Agile teams, supply chain control tower, direct sales, sustainable logistics: These are precisely the issues that resonate today. Even though the transformation is still underway, Electrolux can already see that the initiatives are bearing fruit and that the supply chain performance has improved considerably.” About the award The Supply Chain Management Award is presented by Strategy&, the global strategy consulting team at PwC, and by the industry trade journal LOGISTIK HEUTE, a publication of HUSS-VERLAG in Munich. The honorary sponsor is Steffen Bilger, Member of the Ger- man Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Min- istry of Transport and Digital Infra- structure. Each year since 2006, the award has honored outstand- ing solutions in industrial value chains and the companies that exhibit perseverance or creativity in optimizing their supply chain. The award recognizes powerful end-to-end supply chain solutions and outstanding implementa- tions within individual links in the value chain. Previous winners in- clude Continental (2019), CEMEX Deutschland (2018), Gries Deco (2017), PERI (2016), and Nokia Net- works (2015). Smart SolutionAward 2020 Winner: SCHUBERT ADDITIVE SOLUTIONS Concept: 3D printing has estab- lished itself as a recognized manu- facturing technology. Now, the ground-breaking technology faces its next hurdle: 3D parts on de- mand, as Schubert Additive Solu- tions (SAS) offers through its part- streaming platform Partbox, will revolutionize not only parts manu- facturing but supply chains and storage as well. Electronic design data can be retrieved from a digi- tal warehouse and produced any- where in the world within seconds. The young company, a spin-off of Gerhard Schubert GmbH Verpack- ungsmaschinen (Crailsheim, Ger- many), enables such access to vet- ted, manufacturer-certified printing data. Anyone, anywhere can now independently produce formatting parts, replacement parts, andwear- and-tear parts in batches of any size through a genuine “click & print” model. All you need is a commercial filament 3D printer and Partbox, which offers direct and secure LTE Congratulations to the Supply Chain Award winners 2020: Electrolux and Schubert Additive Solutions Photo: Pietro Sutera Photography Supply Chain Management Award 2020 Photo: EXCHAiNGE logo Continued from Page 1 Read more on page 7