The Top Supply Chain Projects Award profiles innovative projects designed to automate, optimise, streamline and improve the global supply chain.
Leeds, United Kingdom – 14 June 2023, Supply & Demand Chain Executive has named Farnell as a winner of 2023’s Top Supply Chain Projects award, recognising Farnell’s multi-year digital transformation journey dedicated to delivering a world-class, omnichannel experience that accelerates innovation and reduces both design and supply chain risk for nearly 1 million global customers.
Farnell, an Avnet Company, is a global high-service distributor of technology products, services and solutions for electronic system design, maintenance and repair. While Farnell maintains regional customer contact centres and field sales resources, the vast majority of Farnell’s customers begin their journey online and over 70 percent complete their transactions on a digital platform.
“At the core of Farnell’s value proposition as a digital-first business is an understanding that it’s not enough to just digitise and automate existing processes; an exceptional e-commerce experience must encompass all the self-serve activities users engage in throughout the digital consumption chain,” explained Chris Breslin, President Farnell Global.
“This requires investments in state-of-the-art IT, as well as agile processes and empowered people who are laser focused on customers’ evolving requirements. We are honoured to receive this prestigious recognition which affirms Farnell’s ongoing commitment to ensuring our customers are not just satisfied, but truly delighted, in every interaction with us.”
Supply & Demand Chain Executive is a publication covering the global supply chain, focusing on trucking, warehousing, packaging, procurement, risk management, professional development and more.
“From demand planning and forecasting to implementing the ultimate in warehouse automation, the past 12 months has seen companies within the supply chain and logistics space upgrade, enhance, adopt and adapt in order to achieve greater efficiency along the chain,” says Marina Mayer, Editor-in-Chief of Supply & Demand Chain Executive and Food Logistics. “That’s why it’s important today’s supply chains run on collaboration.”
“Companies partnered to implement each other’s software and technology and work smarter, together. It’s these partnerships that have enabled many supply chain organisations to better manage inventory, reduce costs, retain employees, track data and analytics and build resilience for whatever disruptions may lie ahead,” Mayer adds.
The full list of Top Supply Chain Projects winners can be viewed here.
