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Entry Form for Success Through Working in Partnership
The Scotland Food & Drink Excellence Awards recognise those businesses in Scotland who are leading the way with innovation, enterprise and quality. Entries are encouraged from small, medium and large food and drink companies, businesses or events. Support for these Awards comes from a range of organisations and reflects the breadth of the industry. The competition’s organisers are the Royal Highland & Agricultural Society of Scotland and Scotland Food & Drink. The main sponsor is ASDA. Media Partner is The Grocer.
ENTRY PROCESS
1. Send your entry form by email to [email protected] by Friday 2nd March (or on digital medium in the post to David Cochrane, SF&D Excellence Awards, RHASS, Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh EH28 8NB). Contact telephone: 0131 335 6207. Entry is FREE. 2. Shortlisted entries will be required to send a high quality digital image of company logo and/or product for publicity purposes. Send by email or on digital media to [email protected] 3. A senior representative of each short listed company is expected to attend the Awards Ceremony and Dinner at the DoubleTree by Hilton Dunblane Hydro Hotel on Thursday 24th May. Tickets cost £100 available from Scotland Food & Drink. Contact [email protected] or 0131 335 0940 Dress code: Formal - Black tie/Highland wear.
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Success Through Working in Partnership: this Award will be presented to the supply chain partners who demonstrated clear sustainable commercial benefit from joint market-focussed, supply-chain development activity and operational practices.
Closing date for entries – Friday 2nd March
SUCCESS THROUGH WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP
SAOS is the specialist organisation in the development of co-operation and joint venture amongst farmers, growers and rural businesses and within food and drink supply chains. Working in partnership through the C2 Cultivating Collaboration Project and with the support Scottish Government and other key organisations, SAOS aims to encourage the development and improvement of market focussed supply chains through a collaborative approach that can deliver fairer returns and increased profitability to those involved. SAOS is delighted to sponsor the ‘Success Through Working in Partnership Award’.
The Award is open to all businesses in any part of the food and drink supply chain that can demonstrate successful partnership working and collaboration. They must also be able to show how this has benefited their business and others in the supply chain, either through vertical or horizontal links in the chain.
Collaborative supply chains are those where producers and processors work closely with their customers to ensure they deliver what the market wants. The development of close working relationships based on mutual trust and respect delivers commercial value for everyone involved. The benefits are demonstrably shared fairly (but not necessarily equally) among all supply chain partners.
Collaborative chains and partnership approaches can respond quickly to opportunities and be more competitive and sustainable. They add value, promote joint planning and forecasting, remove waste, share resources and take a longer term approach to chain profitability.
Success Through Working in Partnership
As a guide, we recommend that you submit a minimum of 400 words for each answer.
Outline who your supply chain partners are and describe how you work together with your suppliers and customers to secure sustainable commercial benefit. Perhaps this has been achieved through collectively developing your trading relationships, improving information flows, efficiency gains, joint venture, long term collective planning or providing mutual support to each other.
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Why did you decide a partnership approach would better help you achieve your aims (perhaps a business opportunity or threat)? Briefly outline the key consumer and market drivers that you had to consider in responding to such opportunities or threats as a partnership supply chain. Detail any challenges you had to overcome in developing your partnership.
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Do you view your supply chain partnerships as long term, with shared goals and benefits? If so how do you jointly plan ahead (on a formal or informal basis)?
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What benefits have you achieved by working in collaboration with your supply chain partners, e.g. sales, services levels/speed to market, efficiency improvements, reduced waste, quality of product, profitability, availability, seasonality, New Product Development?
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Describe what benefits your approach has brought to others in the supply chain.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
Qualifying Businesses The awards are open to Scottish food and drink companies whose products or offerings are wholly or mainly produced, processed and packaged in Scotland. Products may be new or already established in the marketplace but ANY PRODUCT OR BUSINESS THAT WON A SPECIFIC CATEGORY IN 2011 IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO ENTER THAT SAME CATEGORY AGAIN IN 2012.
Handwritten entries will not be accepted.
Judging Panels The judging panels will be made up of experienced figures from relevant sectors of the food & drink industry. Judges are independent of both Scotland Food & Drink and RHASS. The decisions of the judging panels will be final.
Judging Criteria Judges are looking for comprehensive and well planned answers, supported by additional material where appropriate. Decisions will be made based on information supplied and entrants are solely responsible for the accuracy of the information they supply. Judges will not have capacity to carry out additional research. Therefore, all entrants should use this application form to maximum benefit and ensure that no information is omitted.
All entries, whatever the number, will then be narrowed down to a shortlist of three or four. This shortlist will be published prior to the ceremony and dinner and all companies notified. No publication of category winners is made prior to the ceremony. For publicity purposes it is assumed that winners agree to product and company details being forwarded to our PR consultants.
Winners will receive an inscribed Scotland Food & Drink Award, a certificate for display purposes and use of Scotland Food & Drink Awards branding for product labelling.
After the awards ceremony, all entrants will receive written feedback reports which include the comments and opinions of the judges.