We awarded another eighteen Supply Chain Excellence Awards last week, making 53 in total and within sight of the 80-odd companies which held the e4books award at the end of last year. Some of the eighteen were those who had found the application form or the timetable for filling it in too challenging when the scheme launched; but there was a gratifying number of independent booksellers too, helped by the simplified form which we have now made available.
We need more applications from publishers. There's so much innovation and enterprising use of technology out there, as we saw at the IPG conference a fortnight ago, it's a shame if they don't want their efforts to be recognised. Independent distributors are also thin on the ground. Supply chain excellence and technical proficiency should be a primary concern for smaller publishers when they look around for a new distributor.
We hope that those BIC members who have won the award already will help to promote the scheme to trading partners and others with whom they are in contact, and encourage them to apply and to support the objectives of a slicker, more efficient supply chain based on innovative technology.
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