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Honoring a Commitment to Continuous Business Process Improvement
in the Healthcare Supply Chain
HDMA’s Distribution Management Award recognizes HDMA member companies’ efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare supply chain and enhance relationships with their trading partners.
The award highlights innovative business process improvements and the latest best practices in technology, operations and category management. It also honors customer solutions and trade and promotional planning that:
- Significantly reduce costs;
- Create new business opportunities; and
- Enhance services that positively affect product sales or marketing.
This honor is awarded to an HDMA member company — distributor, manufacturer or service provider — or to multiple member companies that recently engaged in a joint trading partner initiative.
Companies must have implemented the nominated business processes or solutions in the last 12 months ending
December 31, 2011. The award is a company award; team members involved in the project will be recognized.
Winners demonstrate the value of distribution by developing creative, results-oriented programs and processes that set the standard for excellence in the healthcare industry by benefiting the supply chain, customers and consumers. Recipients serve as a model for leadership and innovation in the healthcare marketplace and demonstrate the power of successful trading partner relationships.
A panel of judges — selected from among HDMA distributor, manufacturer and service provider member companies represented on the Industry Relations Council and select HDMA committees — will review the nominations based on select criteria below. A slate of finalists will be determined, and a final vote by the judges will decide the winner.
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Eligible recipients:
- All current HDMA members, including distributors, manufacturers and service providers
- Companies may nominate other HDMA members or themselves
- Nominations may recognize an individual company or joint trading partner initiative
Criteria:
- Measurable productivity gains or efficiencies
achieved
- New or enhanced services to customers or trading partners
- Measurable reduction of costs
- Implementation of truly innovative processes, programs and procedures that demonstrate the spirit
of the award
- Provision of customized support for healthcare products or promotional plans
- Development of results-oriented policies or programs that achieve distribution, marketing or other business objectives
- Support of trading partners with valued field market data, allowing for improved marketing results. (For
trading partner initiatives, the results apply to the combined efforts of two or more trading partners
delivering positive results to those involved.)
- HDMA current member
Deadline
The deadline to submit nominations is January 27, 2012. Nominations should be based on initiatives completed in the 2011 calendar year.
Judging Process:
- HDMA will review all nominations received by January 27, 2012.
- All eligible nominations will be sent to the judges for review.
- The judges will hold a conference call to discuss entries, and then submit forms ranking the nominations.
- HDMA senior staff will review the judges’ rankings to identify the top three entries.
- Winners are then chosen by the judges. The judges choose the winner from among the three finalists.
- Awards will be presented at the 2012 Distribution Management Conference and Technology Expo, co-hosted with IFPW, Sunday, March 11– Wednesday, March 14, 2012 in Orlando, Fla.
Judges:
The award judging panel includes members of
HDMA’s Industry Relations Council, the co-chairs
of its Business and Technology Committee, the cochairs
of its Logistics and Operations Committee and
representatives of select service provider companies.
Service providers represented on the judges’ panel
cannot be nominated for an award.
Guidelines:
To be considered for this award, your company
must be a current member of good standing. All
entries submitted must include a completed, legible
official award entry form. Each nomination requires a
separate nomination form.
Contact
Lisa Gallagher
Director, Member Services
703-885-0251
lgallagher@hdmanet.org
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