The ICIL Foundation delivers the sixth edition of its ' awards to the Logistics Excellence '

Pere Roca, President of the Executive Committee of the ICIL Foundation, stressed that this was the Edition that has received the highest number of nominations and a large number of attendees: "this circumstance we are pleased because the Logistics Excellence is being consolidated", and more in the current economic situation. On the other hand, shows that the logistics continues to progress and with it their companies. I would also like to point out that this year we have received the largest number of attendees to this event in the six editions. "This encourages ICIL to continue on the momentum of the logistics through training, research and advice". Juan Ramón Rodríguez, President of the ICIL Association, was in charge of presenting the argument why ICIL has given each award.

First of all, Sergio Castresana, of the company Desigual, award-winning company last year, made delivery of the award to Alfonso Sesé, of the Sesé group. This transport company, born in 1965 in Zaragoza, carried out since its inception a continued expansion that accelerates exponentially since 1994. In 2003 it consolidated as logistics operator within the automotive sector and in 2006 made the great leap consolidating as Manager of the project of supplies from Iberia to the totality of the Volkswagen Group. This year it has created its Division of 'forwarding' and starts its international voyage entering Mexico. And precisely "by this path of continuous expansion and for having developed and particularly successfully maintained a demanding project to the extent", the ICIL Foundation jury awarded the award for logistics excellence.

Vichy Catalan is a century-old company dedicated to the bottling and distribution of bottled water and that, "keeping own your company's values and culture since its inception, it has applied to operational logistics numerous ideas for improving level of service and costs". These applications include all kinds of measures - organizational, how to set up a dual-circuit packaging attributing the character to its unique packaging of eco-friendly multi-trip which it distributes to the HoReCa channel and non that distributes for domestic consumption; structural, how to get to their transport providers provide vehicles with minimum weight that does not compromise the security to be able to dispose of 27,500 kilograms of payload; design, as analyzing packaging, palletising and even bottle caps to lower weights and volumes to get one more layer on the pallets of half-liter bottles; and optimization, as supplied to the Balearic embarking with trucks rather than container allowing to remove the stores, reduce costs and improve the level of service in the Islands. And "for having developed and implemented successfully a process of continuous improvement of its operational logistics the jury of the ICIL Foundation" granted the award for Logistics Excellence Vichy Catalán. He presented the award on behalf of Salvat logistics, company awarded last year, its Chief Executive Officer, Josep Salvat, and picked up the award Joan Renart, Managing Director of Vichy Catalán.

As a company of outsourcing this company has shown that, through close follow-up and with a powerful monitoring and psychological support structure, has been able to achieve an excellent level of service - in time, both in quality and flexibility - using mentally handicappedgetting to, and in spite of the cost of the abovementioned structure of support, the overall costs are lower. Thus, the ICIL Foundation jury awarded the prize to the logistics excellence to CTC - outsourcing "for having developed this application, along the lines of continuous improvement processes and by the social work involved in this application". He presented the award on behalf of the Cares Foundation, Santiago Bassols, CEO of Cilsa, and picked up the award, Juan Cruz Mayor, Chief Executive Officer.

Mercedes Benz is a company located in Vitoria-Gasteiz whose name is associated with the quality. As a manufacturer of vehicles car stands out not only by its production process, but by the successes in the degree of collaboration that has reached with its suppliers. This level of collaboration has allowed, as well as economic benefits, that the multinational assigned the management of the supply and provision of the totality of European suppliers to the new factory that the company has introduced in China. Thus, "by his good governance in the area of logistics of supply and procurement that has enabled generate 150 jobs in Vitoria", the jury of the ICIL Foundation awarded the award for logistics excellence to Mercedes Benz. He presented the award on behalf of a Egamaster, company awarded last year, José Francisco Benito. He picked up the award Francisco del Río, director of logistics of materials of Mercedes Benz Vitoria.

The following award-winning company was a multinational logistic operators sector which, in Spain - in 2009 - has developed the implementation and application of the philosophy 'Read' to all its processes, - with a marked improvement in productivity and an increase in the level of service together with a reduction in costs -having created a habit of continuous improvement in all the supervisors of the departments of your company and all employees involved in this culture. Thus, the jury stressed to Ceva Logistics "for its quality of pioneers in this deployment which moved to the world of logistics operators strategies 'Lean', until recently, used only in industrial activities." He presented the award on behalf of Privalia, company awarded the previous year, Ivan Romera, Global Supply Chain Developer, and received the prize Giuseppe Chielino, managing director and CEO of Ceva Logistics in Iberia.

Paris i Treball, in pursuit of the labor insertion

As an exemplary institution that should be classified in the economic sector of waste Manager but in no case deserves this designation, Formació i Treball was presented during the award ceremony as an enterprise which, created in 1997 but active since 1986occupies 126 workers, of which 50 are a difficult labour insertion. And the jury of awards ICIL stressed this company "for having made an efficient process reengineering from design flows and specific storage systems until the implementation of a computer system adapted to the characteristics of its staff"", integrally controlling the flow of garments in their facilities." Also highlight that this is a foundation promoted by Caritas Diocesana. Entregó award, on behalf of Asti, company awarded the previous year, your project manager, Ruben Martinez. He picked up the award Manel Ribas, President of the Paris Foundation i Treball.

Group Schneider Electric is a manufacturer of electrical equipment which has centralized the logistics direction and overall management of the stocks in Barcelona, implementing a logistics centre in Sant Boi, for supplies to Iberia, Africa, Middle East, Caribbean and some countries of South America. This center of 38,000 square meters it has 330 employees and operates with 34,000 living references presents an optimal combination of manual and mechanized flows where a direct flow concept, by which the products of each of the factories has a pier and a fixed entry procedure has been applied and each carrier It has docks and specific areas of expedition, which has allowed that certain functions are carried out by staff of the own carrier. "By having managed to implement a centralized management of stocks in a multinational company and have developed a logistical centre that can act as point of reference for many applications - by providing it - a powerful Department of development and continuous improvement getting clear improvements in level of service"", costs, safety and energy saving" ICIL Foundation jury awarded the prize to the Schneider Electric group. He presented the award on behalf of the airport of Barcelona, entity awarded the previous year, Alejandro Corrales, and received the award Francesc Corbeiro, director of institutional relations of Schneider Electric.

Manel Nadal, Secretary of mobility of the Generalitat de Catalunya, closed the sixth edition of the awards ICIL logistics excellence with the claim of the culture of effort to deal with the economic downturn: "for example, many years have been claiming the corridor of the Mediterranean", and after much work and effort, and it seems that their competitiveness has already been recognized. In the end they get results, if they pursued as it happened in their day to Seat and Renfe for the supply of materials. Another more recent example is new the Vueling airline connections from Barcelona to numerous destinations. "This is very important, both for tourists and for Congressmen and businessmen who come to do business."

Manel Nadal encouraged companies to open up new markets in other countries: "the companies that currently opt for export work better." "Search for external markets, it is difficult, but everyone can get".