1. 2010
CHaINA Awards
2010 ENTRY KIT
Deadline: October 15, 2010
CHaINA Awards Ceremony: November 18, Shanghai
supplychains.com/awards

2. Welcome to the 2010 CHaINA Awards!
Welcome
It is my pleasure to invite you to be a part of the 2010 CHaINA Awards.
In today's economy, winning a CHaINA Award means more than just excellence. It demonstrates
to prospects, clients and colleagues that your supply chain operations has what it takes to rise
above and deliver results here in Asia!
The competition, now in its fifth year, is about more than just identifying the very best that the region has to
offer. We believe, in these challenging times, it gives the industry an opportunity to reflect on the remarkable
diversity of supply chain functional excellence across Asia.
We are delighted to introduce a new category to this year's competition. The Logistics Real Estate Development
will aim to recognise the warehouse or distribution center that offers the most interesting and innovative
features and positioning.
The judging, as always, will be led by leading professionals from the most succesful companies who will
ensure that entries are reviewed according to the demanding set of criteria. And this year, for the first time,
nominations will also be shared publicly and the Council community will be asked to cast their vote!
At a time when supply chain management has never been more important, the CHaINA Awards offer
manufacturers, retailers and their partners the chance to show they have what it takes.
We look forward to receiving your entries and showcasing the best in supply chain, logistics and procurement in Asia.
Wish you the best of luck.
Max Henry
Founder
Global Supply Chain Council
Why CHaINA Awards are Unique?
Unlike other awards, the CHaINA's The 2010 awards will have a
A wa rd s a re a bs o l u te l y 1 0 0 % particular focus on innovation
sponsor-free, which means that and new business strategy, as
the categories are not sponsored judges look for businesses who
by vendors who typically win are addressing industry challenges
i n t h e i r o w n c a t e g o r y. T h e in new and successful ways and
Council seeks to be a neutral and who are leading their peers in
independent organization that areas such as corporate social
evaluates these nominations in an responsibility and sustainability.
unbiased and objective manner. improvement, strategic such as
The grounds for selecting the improved reputation in your own
As the only awards judged by winners will be based on the respective sector.
Asia's leading supply chain significance and impact your
professional organization, the project or initiatives have had on Only the CHaINA Awards will
CHaINA Awards offer a chance your operations in Asia. Benefits re c o g n i ze p ro j e c t s fo r t h e i r
fo r i n d u st r y m e m b e rs t o b e a r i s i n g f ro m t h e p ro j e c t s o r excellent achievements in logistics
recognized through a prestigious initiatives may be quantitative and supply chain management.
awards program which is both well such as cost savings, qualitative This will be the biggest industry
respected and peer-reviewed. such as supplier performance award ceremony of the year!
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3. Awards Categories
Awards Categories
Supply Chain Training Education and
Operational Excellence Development Award
(Top Award) This award recognizes the trainer
T h e a wa rd fo r S u p p l y C h a i n or a training initiative or program
Operational Excellence recognizes that have shown substantial results
a manufacturing or retailing in developing or advancing supply
organization that operates chain knowledge or expertise
significant components of a supply within an organization in Asia.
chain and has demonstrated
excellence in the design, operation The Green Supply Chain
or improvement of that supply Award
chain in Asia.
This award salutes individuals,
programs or organizations that
Supply Chain Executive h ave s e t a n d exc e e d e d h i g h
of the Year standards for environmental
This award recognizes an friendliness. Recipients of this
individual who has made a award are selected on the basis of
significant contribution to the strong environmental leadership
success of his company in Asia and their firm commitment to
CHaINA Awards is the most while implementing supply chain promote green shipping standards
unique, prestigious and largest management initiatives, programs in Asia.
industry award ceremony in Asia. or applications.
Each of our eight awards embodies Best Logistics Real Estate
the innovation, excellence and
success carried throughout a
Best 3PL Supply Chain Development NEW! V
project or an initiative. Provider The Logistics Real Estate
This award recognizes the third Development will aim to recognize
Categories have been selected party logistics provider who has the warehouse or distribution
to reflect the key areas in Supply proven excellence in developing c e n t e r t h a t o f fe rs t h e m o s t
Chain Management and Logistics. and delivering supply chain interesting and innovative features
solutions and services in Asia. and positioning in Asia.
Furthermore, CHaINA Awards
are incomparable in the sense Best Supply Chain
that they are 100% sponsor free.
Consulting Partner V
The Council’s aim is to promote
This award recognizes the best
outstanding projects in the most
consulting firm who has shown
objective and impartial manner,
excellence in developing and
rejecting any form of bias.
delivering supply chain expertise
and consulting services in Asia.
W i n n e rs w i l l b e s e l e c te d o n
the basis of the success carried
throughout their operations in Best IT Supply Chain
Asia. The benefits arising from Solution Provider V
the projects or initiatives may This award recognizes any vendor
be quantitative such as cost who has delivered significant
s av i n g s , q u a l i t a t i v e s u c h a s value in the implementation of
improved external perception co m m u n i cat i o n s , e - b u s i n e s s
of your company or strategic and information management
such as supplier performance and technology, in any aspect of
improvement helping further your passenger or freight transport V Categories where the vendors
firm’s strategic goals. or supply-chain management are allowed to jointly nominate
solutions. with a client.
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4. Preparing your Nomination
Preparing your Nomination
All nominations must be sent at awards@supplychain.cn
At the beginning of your success of your project, program
nomination document, don't forget or initiative. All support materials
to list the following information: should be provided online either
Category entered in the form of a micro site, via a
Title of project or web address or as files uploaded
implementation covered in your on a server, so that these can be
essay accessed by the judges at the time
Name and contact details of judging.
Support material
Documents/PPTs:
File size: Less than 5MB
Nomination Summary File formats: .doc, .ppt, .pdf
This short summary of 50 words
Pictures/Photographs:
maximum will highlight some of
File size: Less than 5MB
the most important facts of the
File formats: .jpg, .png, .gif
nomination.
Videos/Animations
Nomination Essay File size: Less than 10MB
File formats: .mov, .wmv, .mpg,
Your written essay is of outmost
.mpeg2, .swf
importance as the judges will
base their initial decisions on the
strength of the arguments made.
Each entry must include a write-
up that is not more than 500
words or two single-sided pages of
A4 paper. Your two-page written Notes:
entries must be typed or printed
using not less than 12 point size. 1. All sites must be live from
October 1 to 31st, 2010.
Nominations in a language Please supply passwords,
other than English must be if needed, for access to the
paired with a complete English URL or FTP servers.
language translation, including 2. Entrants may mark
all supporting materials, to make various sensitive parts of
judging possible. their submission as “Not for
publication”, providing that
Supporting Materials these restrictions are not
To p a i r w i t h y o u r w r i t t e n used excessively.
s u b m i s s i o n , e n t r i e s m ay b e
supported with relevant back-up
material to show evidence of the
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5. CHaINA Awards Nomination Process
CHaINA Awards Nomination Process
Deadlines:
1. Nominations must be
completed and sent at Oct. 15
awards@supplychain.cn
2. Nominees
Oct. 30
Announcement
3. Nomination Summaries
Nov. 1-10
placed for Public Voting
4. Final Review & Consideration
Final Review & Consideration Nov. 10 - 16
from the Judges
from the Judges
5. Winners Announcement
Nov. 18
at the Gala Ceremony
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6. Entry Rules
Entry Rules
Who can Enter? Eligibility Period Awards Presentation
The CHaINA Awards are open to Any work launched or ongoing Winners will be announced
all companies who embrace and during the August 2009 to October a n d re c e i v e a t ro p hy a t t h e
encourage the advancement of 2010 period is eligible to enter the CHaINA'10 Live Awards ceremony
supply chain management through Awards. on November 18 in Shanghai,
their business in Asia. Entry is open China. Please note that winners,
to manufacturers, retailers, trading Past Winners both the clients and the vendors
companies or any end-users or companies, need to be present at
If you have won a CHaINA Awards
practitioners interested or involved this ceremony to be eligible to win
in the past, you are not eligible
in supply chain management. the final award. Winners will be
to re-enter the competition for a
professionally photographed and
period of two years.
Key decision-makers and videotaped.
executives in supply chain
management, operations, Multiple Entries
procurement, logistics and related You are entitled to submit as many
fields are welcome to nominate entries as you wish. You can also
their company/team. put forward a single entry across
multiple categories as long as it
3PLs, IT solutions providers, is relevant and is accompanied
consultants, real estate companies by a separate entry form and
are also welcome to enter BUT the supporting materials.
nomination must be done together
with a client. Any joint nomination Strict Confidentiality
between an end-user and a vendor
should be coordinated between
The organizers and the judging Trophies
panel understand that the content
the different parties involved. The All winning entries receive two
of your entry remains strictly
final document should focus on trophies. A maximum of one end-
confidential at all times and will
the end-user client nominating a user and one client can be credited
be discussed ONLY within the
vendor, not the other way around. on the trophies given to winning
confines of the judging process.
teams. If your case is a winner, you
Should your entry reach the final,
Entry Deadline: the summary will be shared for
can purchase duplicate trophies or
personalized trophies at additional
Deadline for the submission of public voting, editorial coverage
cost.
CHaINA Awards Nomination Form and as content for the ceremony
will be Friday, 15 October 2010 Lunch. No other part of your entry
will be published, presented or Entry Fee
Award Ceremony: disclosed to any third party under There is no entry fee to nominate
any circumstances. for the CHaINA Awards. If you
CHaINA Awards Lunch Ceremony: want to attend to the ceremony,
Thursday, 18 November 2010. join the CHaINA '10 Live event
which will included access to the
ceremony.
Please note that there will also
be a special price for delegates
only attending the CHaINA Awards
Ceremony.
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7. How will your Entry be Judged?
How will your Entry be Judged?
An independent jury consisting of leading supply chain executives, mainly working
with manufacturers and retailers will judge the entry nominations. Great care is taken
in selecting a judging panel comprising the right balance of specialist knowledge,
experience and objectivity. Strict guidelines, designed to eliminate vested interest or
breaches of rules of entry, will be followed.
In all categories, judges will look primarily for projects that have delivered tangible
results. However, judges will also take into account the ‘level of difficulty’ of those
objectives and the degree to which they have been met.
Judging Criteria Please also note that the nomination Judges also have the opportunity
must be for demonstrable t o d i s c u s s t h e c a s e s b e fo r e
Criteria for selecting winners
excellence, not proposals or partly finalizing their selection. Scoring
will be based on the magnitude,
implemented projects. is done anonymously and
importance and clarity impacted
confidentially.
by the project or activity submitted
on your China operations. Those Quantitative
benefits may be quantifiable (e.g. Methodology Public Voting
cost savings or reduced lead times), A detailed quantitative methodology Nominations will be reviewed,
strategic (e.g. a specific supplier has been developed to fairly and selected and kept confidential by
performance improvement that accurately benchmark and analyze the Council judges and the names
helps strategic goals) or indirect each entry on its merits. This of nominees will be announced at
(e.g. improved external perception includes the following: the end of October.
of your firm or more skilled staff
whose performance then drives Strategy (20%) The nominations summaries will
your firm operations in China). It then be placed for online public
is important that every entry does Concise and proven evidence of voting to the Council's 60,000+
relate in some way these benefits. an insightful approach to a specific community across Asia.
issue or challenge encountered in
Projects, programs or initiatives the company operations in Asia.
must be ‘real and live', running
for at least several months in Asia Execution (50%)
with some ROI achieved. Plans, Judges will look for a convincing
concepts, future projects will not argument made establishing a
be accepted. Joint entries from cause and effect between the
organizations with their logistics, objectives, strategy and results of
systems or consulting partners are the campaign.
welcome.
They will also consider other
In addition, where it is appropriate factors such as the effective use of
to the category and the entry; the resources, and technical excellence
judges will consider: i n i m p l e m e n t i n g i n t e g ra t e d
The clarity of the aims and campaigns.
objectives of the project/
program; Results (30%)
The quality of the planning and
execution; Judges will consider the difficulty
Demonstration of best or the complexity of the project,
practices in Asia; the scale of the results and how
Innovation and creativity; well the initiatives chosen met
Evidence of teamwork, the objectives set. Judges will be
involvement of stakeholders, looking for quantification of results
colleagues; from a credible source (and seek
And the presentational quality third party verification of awards
of the entry. winners).
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8. Tips for Successful Nominations
Tips for Successful Nominations
We have compiled a list of hints and tips below - to help ensure that your nomination goes smoothly
and is well understood by the judges. These notes might answer some of the questions you may have
after reading through the entry kit.
1 Choose the right Category 3 Be Compelling 5 Use verified Results
It sounds simple, but Your entry should stimulate In all of the categories,
the nature of cross the reader; tell the judges judges look for evidence of
functionalities in supply a s t o r y a n d w hy i t w a s tangible results. This can be
chain management means successful. For every demonstrated in a number of
that there is potential obj ecti ve p rovi d e cl ear, ways but justified facts and
overlap between some of sourced results and provide figures often tell the story
the categories in the CHaINA context for judges to judge best.
Awards. If you are a vendor, those results and objectives.
only certain categories are It always helps to explain the
opened for joint nominations 4 Be Concise basis of a successful return
so please look for the V sign With the judges having to go on investment for a new
in the Awards Categories through dozens of entries, program, implementation
page. it is best to be concise and or business success story.
poignant in your entry Results must be quantifiable.
2 Introduce the Context presentation to stand out
The judges are experts in from the crowd. Winning 6 Proofread
their field, but may not entries clearly articulate Have a few of your colleagues
have an intimate knowledge a business issue, a clear read through your case before
of the particular project improvement initiative and submitting, to be sure all
or business that has been specific results that prove the the elements are there and
entered. It always helps to case. without typos.
put an entry in the context of
the wider business, current
setup of the operations or
the organization chart.
For further enquiries, Alexandra DANAHY
please contact: Project Manager, CHaINA’10 Live, Global Supply Chain Council
Email : awards@supplychain.cn | Mobile: +86 13651672414
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