Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Award recognises supply chain excellence
Agilent Technologies received the High-Tech Supply Chain Excellence Award at the recent SCMLogistics World.
Agilent Technologies received the High-Tech Supply Chain Excellence Award at the recent SCMLogistics World 2006. The award recognises companies for their transformation change management and leadership in driving supply-chain excellence to achieve greater business profitability and a higher level of customer service. The award is the only one in Asia that honours manufacturing companies and individuals in the region for their achievements in optimising supply chains to attain greater business results.
The award was presented to Agilent at the SCMLogistics World 2006 conference last month in Singapore.
The criteria for winning the award include: having a clear vision; a commitment to designing paradigm-shifting innovation in supply chain concepts; and transforming these innovations into competitive differentiators.
'Great products have to be supported by an excellent supply chain to improve competitiveness and increase customer satisfaction', said Gooi Soon Chai, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's Electronic Instruments Business Unit, who also has management responsibility for Agilent's Electronic Measurements Group's supply chain.
'The programme implemented by the supply chain team has transformed the company into a world-class organisation, with significant cost savings and improved turnaround time'.
Chai attributed this win to a dynamic business strategy built around supply chain excellence specially designed for cost-competitiveness.
Agilent has reassessed and consolidated its overall supply base for greater efficiency and reliability, he said.
This has been complemented by successful supply chain collaboration with suppliers who have enabled cost savings to be optimised both across the organisation and with Agilent's partners.
The panel of judges, from schools and consultancies such as the Cranfield School of Management in the UK, Insead in France, and the ARC Advisory Group in the USA, were unanimous in their selection of Agilent as the winner over 20 other global high-tech leaders.
Agilent Technologies received the High-Tech Supply Chain Excellence Award at the recent SCMLogistics World 2006. The award recognises companies for their transformation change management and leadership in driving supply-chain excellence to achieve greater business profitability and a higher level of customer service. The award is the only one in Asia that honours manufacturing companies and individuals in the region for their achievements in optimising supply chains to attain greater business results.
The award was presented to Agilent at the SCMLogistics World 2006 conference last month in Singapore.
The criteria for winning the award include: having a clear vision; a commitment to designing paradigm-shifting innovation in supply chain concepts; and transforming these innovations into competitive differentiators.
'Great products have to be supported by an excellent supply chain to improve competitiveness and increase customer satisfaction', said Gooi Soon Chai, Vice President and General Manager of Agilent's Electronic Instruments Business Unit, who also has management responsibility for Agilent's Electronic Measurements Group's supply chain.
'The programme implemented by the supply chain team has transformed the company into a world-class organisation, with significant cost savings and improved turnaround time'.
Chai attributed this win to a dynamic business strategy built around supply chain excellence specially designed for cost-competitiveness.
Agilent has reassessed and consolidated its overall supply base for greater efficiency and reliability, he said.
This has been complemented by successful supply chain collaboration with suppliers who have enabled cost savings to be optimised both across the organisation and with Agilent's partners.
The panel of judges, from schools and consultancies such as the Cranfield School of Management in the UK, Insead in France, and the ARC Advisory Group in the USA, were unanimous in their selection of Agilent as the winner over 20 other global high-tech leaders.
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