Best Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Company
Nominees for this award shall be involved in offering contract logistics services to clients (shippers). In assessing the submissions, the judges will look for those logistics service providers that have achieved success in increasing service levels, reducing costs and improving supply chain visibility for customers. Nominees should highlight the extent of logistics services to customers, industry sector(s) expertise, thought leadership in spearheading innovations, and contributions to raising the overall standard of third-party logistics. In addition, nominees can highlight initiatives for improving environmental, health and safety performance and for promoting the ethos of corporate social responsibility.

Best Supply Chain Software Company
Nominees for this award shall be involved in offering software solutions that facilitate logistics and supply chain processes. In assessing the submissions, the judges will look for nominee solutions that exhibit deep functionality, high performance, ease-of-use, integrability, and that have delivered proven benefits to clients. In addition, nominees can highlight new market initiatives and technology innovations.

Best Warehouse Automation Company
Nominees for this award shall be involved in offering automated material handling/storage equipment for use in warehouses, distribution centers or factory-floor environments. In assessing the submissions, the judges will look for nominee solutions across one or more material handling/storage sub-sectors, e.g. AS/RS, conveyor systems, lift trucks, AGVs, mobile autonomous robots, and which have delivered proven productivity and efficiency benefits. In addition, nominees can highlight new market initiatives and technology innovations plus attention to safety and ergonomics.

Best E-Commerce Technology Company
Nominees for this award shall be involved in offering hardware or software technology that facilitates the process of e-commerce fulfillment. In assessing the submissions, the judges will look for nominee solutions that demonstrably improve e-commerce merchant performance and e-commerce customer experience through the application of technology-based solutions. Nominees can also highlight initiatives for reducing barriers to cross-border e-commerce fulfillment.

Best Transportation Company
Nominees for this award shall be involved in offering transportation solutions – sea, land or air – that serve to support the supply chain operations of client companies. In assessing the submissions, the judges will look for nominees that achieve success in increasing service levels, optimising costs, and improving sustainability performance for customers. Nominees can also highlight product and service innovations and demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of cross-border trade issues and their implications.

Best Supply Chain Innovation
Nominees for this award shall be end user (shipper) companies that have markedly improved or transformed supply chain functions through a strategic focus on innovation. In assessing the submissions, the judges will look for nominees that have implemented new technologies or practices in their organisations and delivered measurable increases in supply chain performance. Nominees can also indicate initiatives aimed at embedding new ways of working in the organisation and overcoming issues such as resistance to change.

Supply Chain Management Champion
Nominees for this award shall have a track record of success in improving or transforming the supply chain performance of a company or companies. As well as a solid understanding of the art and science of supply chain management, nominees can demonstrate how superior leadership skills, cultural awareness and tenacity in the face of challenging circumstances have contributed towards their achievements to date.

Digital Transformation Champion
Nominees for this award shall have achieved success in strategically applying IT and Industry 4.0 technologies to realise substantive improvements in a company’s operational performance and competitive position. As well as a deep understanding of core digital technologies, nominees can demonstrate the contribution of change management skills and practices and company-culture awareness towards meeting and achieving digital transformation objectives.

Sustainability & CSR Champion
Nominees for this award shall be involved in developing and successfully implementing initiatives that serve to promote the concept and realisation of a sustainable and socially responsible enterprise. These initiatives can encompass areas such as carbon emissions, waste disposal, resource management, worker health & safety, and community outreach. Nominees can also demonstrate activities and initiatives aimed at evangelising sustainability & CSR principles and objectives in public forums.

Promising Start-Up Champion
Nominees for this award shall be responsible, solely or as a member of a team, for the development of a new enterprise in the logistics & supply chain industry. They should provide evidence of superior entrepreneurship skills such as recognising a market need/gap, developing a competitive advantage and value proposition, financing the initiative, adequately and appropriately resourcing the organisation, and targeting and acquiring customers. Nominees can also provide indication of early success and new venture progress.

Thought Leadership Champion
Nominees for this award shall have an acknowledged track record and reputation for developing new ideas and concepts that further the development and sophistication of the logistics & supply chain industry. They should demonstrate how such ideas and concepts fill a gap in existing knowledge and practices and indicate the extent to which these have been accepted as new ways of thinking and working. Nominees can also provide indication of the dissemination of formulated ideas and concepts via, for example, conferences, books, journal articles, and media appearances.

LogiSYM Excellence Award
This special award is for exceptional service to the logistics & supply chain sector by an individual recognised by the judges for his/her multiple and high achievements during a stellar career dedicated to serving this industry.