International accolade: BLG and engelbert strauss receive ELA Award

BLG LOGISTICS together with its partner engelbert strauss is the winner of the European Logistics Award of the European Logistics Association (ELA). After winning the 2015 German Award for Supply Management for the project entitled “Stargate junction – logistics at the interface between humans and robots”, the two companies have now received distinction for this project at the European level, too. Thomas Krüger, Managing Director of BLG Handelslogistik, and Matthias Fischer, Head of Operational Projects at engelbert strauss, received the coveted award in Brussels.

Excellent logistics solution: BLG and engelbert strauss receive German Award for Supply Chain Management in 2015

BLG LOGISTICS is the holder of the German Award for Supply Management in 2015. Together with its client engelbert strauss, market leader in the workwear sector, the logistics provider headquartered in Bremen received the coveted award for the first time yesterday evening. The presentation of the award for the project “Stargate meeting point – logistics at the interface of humans and robots” took place at a gala on the first day of the 32nd German Logistics Congress, held in Berlin from October 28 to 30, 2015.

BLG CEO Frank Dreeke, Matthias Fischer from engelbert strauss and the project team celebrate the price. In the photo from left: Nils Ballhausen, Thomas Krüger, Klaus Gottwalt, Vanessa Claessens, Holger Hanssen Claudia Haake, Julius Krahl, Matthias Fischer, Frank Dreeke, Pedro dos Santos and Julia Schmelter. (Photo: Kai Bublitz)

A “wondrous warehouse”

About the European Logistics Association (ELA) and the ELA Award

The European Logistics Association (ELA) is an organization encompassing more than 30 national logistics federations in Western and Central Europe and beyond. The members of these national logistics federations are logistics specialists and predominantly come from industry as well as various service sectors. The ELA reaches 55,000 logistics specialists within its network. The organization supports a profession and not a sector and is therefore a neutral body. The ELA provides logistics specialists with a platform for networking and supports professions in the logistics and supply chain segment. To achieve this, the organization confers the ELA Award once a year, the European gold medal in the field of logistics and supply chain. From the finalists of the respective national prize winners the ELA selects the best logistics project and the best logistics professional of the year. In addition, the organization offers a certification program that targets a uniform qualification standard in the logistics sector and maintains an intensive exchange with the European Parliament and different Directorate Generals in the European Commission.