Queensland SCL award winners announced

Over 350 people attended the Queensland Supply Chain and Logistics Conference dinner where the SCL Award winners are announced each year.

The awards winners include:

2011 Queensland Supply Chain Management Award: Salad Fresh

The restructure of the business when Convenience Foods and Mrs Crocket’s Kitchen combined to form Salad Fresh also combined the logistics departments for both businesses into one. Major steps in this transformation included the creation of a Logistics Operations Centre (LOC) in Brisbane. This has effectively halved the cost of customer service and logistics; it has significantly reduced errors, improved customer service, eliminated safety incidents (which we must remain constantly vigilant against) and simplified the business. Equally importantly, it has set up this department for the challenges of the future in being responsive to the changes in the market and environment.

High Commendation awarded to Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association of Queensland (WCRAQ).

2011 Queensland Environmental Excellence Award: Waste Contractors and Recyclers Association of Queensland

The importance of WCRAQ and its united member organisations was clearly demonstrated during the 2011 natural disasters in Queensland. WCRAQ was the coordinating industry body, supported by its members, who worked with the Brisbane City Council to facilitate the safe collection, transport and disposal of more than 400,000 tonnes of flood-related wastes and also provided specialist industry advice to other affected councils across the state. Across Brisbane, WCRAQ was responsible for all the back end clean-up and disposal operations of all the flood-related wastes including all the commercial and industrial and other wastes generated - getting Brisbane back in business. After the floods, WCRAQ was recognised by a special motion passed by the Brisbane City Council for the exceptional work of WCRAQ members during and following the floods.

High Commendation awarded to Clean Run Eco Drive-Strategix Training Group.

2011 Queensland Training, Education & Development Award: Women Take the Wheel - Department of Transport and Main Roads Alliance

The Women Take the Wheel program encourages women to pursue a career in the predominately male transport, logistics and supply chain industry. The initiative has two aims: to retain and engage women already in the industry and to address the current shortage of skilled workers by attracting and training new industry entrants - directly enhancing the industry’s capability. The Women Take the Wheel initiative is the first program of its kind within the transport, logistics and supply chain industry in Australia. The pilot program is an initiative between JJ Richards & Sons Pty Ltd, Strategix Training Group, Mission Australia and the Department of Transport and Main Roads. Hawkins Road Transport is also participating in the program as a pilot through encouraging gender diversity and actively seeking to employee more women.

2011 Queensland Industry Excellence Award: Rick Ralph

Nothing demonstrated the united force and pivotal importance of WCRAQ to Queenslanders more than its operations during the clean-up of the 2011 Brisbane floods. Rick acted as a liaison to facilitate the safe collection, transport and disposal operations of more than 750 separate requests of removing and disposing of hazardous and regulated wastes, the safe disposal of 25,000 dead chickens and of moving more than 8000 tonnes of market waste in just 48 hours to get the markets reopened. The generosity of Rick’s time and specialist advice was instrumental to helping Brisbane get back to business after the 2011 Floods.

High Commendation awarded to Ian Lovell for his relief efforts during the recent Grantham flooding.

2011 Queensland Future Leaders Award: Nikki Hasicevic

Nikki is employed by Snap Fresh (a division of Qantas Catering) and she started on the operations floor in 2003 and has worked in most areas of the factory before moving to her current role as Procurement Coordinator. She is starting to realise she has the capability and skills to look to more senior supply chain roles and a prominent place in the industry. Nikki is a natural leader and mentor, with a wealth of patience, wisdom and foresight well beyond her years and her influence within Snap Fresh extends far beyond her team.

High commendation awarded to Amanda Childs for her dedication to the task of pallet control.

The Qld SCL Awards is the state feeder program for the Australian Supply Chain and Logistics Awards, which will be held 11 November at the Burswood Entertainment Complex, Perth, Western Australia.