Delivery specialist DPD Group and software provider AEB International scooped the ‘Supply Chain Operations – Best Use of People and Process’ at the Supply Chain Excellence Awards on Monday 8th November, fending off some stiff competition in the process. But its answer to the conundrum of Brexit – based around planning, infrastructure, people, processes and technology – is what impressed the judges most this year.
The UK referendum on Brexit took place in June 2016 but it was only in 2017 when the truth about impacts on UK-EU cross-border trade started sinking in. Trade between the European Union and the UK would never be the same again and significant red tape would be involved for customs processes. But rather than sit around with a stubborn ‘wait-and-see’ approach, in 2018 DPD kicked off its Brexit project together with AEB.
One of the reasons DPD opted to work with AEB is that both were of the opinion that an existing off-the-shelf Brexit-ready software, and building the logistics and new customs processes around it, wouldn’t be sufficient. AEB proactively proposed a customs-tailored approach to redefining DPD’s EU-UK and UK-EU movements of goods.
Both knew very well that the industry would need strong logistics and technology partners to get through the shock of Brexit once it became a reality.
Read the full story: https://www.aeb.com/uk-en/magazine/articles/case-study-dpd-aeb-supply-chain-excellence-award.php
Congratulations to Pentlands client, AEB International on their Supply Chain Excellence Award.
