Samskip wins Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte award

6.10.2009

On Saturday  27th of June 2009 Samskip Multimodal Container logistics won the Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte Award. The award was handed to Samskip at the annual event that took place in a nice old theater in the historical setting of Brugge in Belgium. Out of 25 competitors, Samskip has won the award for best performance in international transport 2008.  Samskip scored very well on in time shipment as well as availability: two very important aspects within most of today's supply chains.

Picture: Customer Service Desk in Rotterdam proudly showing award

Best score on availability and in time shipment

Claudia Garisch of Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH explains the reasons behind the award:                                                                                                                                                    

"Every year we organize two awards: one for national and one for the European wide transports. The awards give BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH an opportunity to benchmark the performance of the transport partners. It also keeps our transport partners aware of the competitive environment. For our partners the awards are an additional motivation to give the best transport performance. And for us it is also a way to show our appreciation for their efforts during the year."

About Samskip winning the award, Claudia comments:

"The main reason that Samskip has won the award for European wide transport is that they had the best score on those criteria that are very important  for us: "availability"  and "in time shipment". These two criteria are very important for BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH as our customers demand in time deliveries. Furthermore Samskip had no damages and losses and performed well at working correctly with the transport system TISYS."

Samskip team proud to receive award

Surendra Haarnack of the German customer Service desk as well as Klaus Hapke responsible sales manager for the Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte in Germany were present in Brugge to receive the award. Looking back at the event Mr Hapke comments:

“We have been transporting cargo for BSH for 12 years now and the award shows that our aim to do the best for our customers is paying off. It is a real incentive to keep improving our service levels and customer focus.”

“Furthermore we really appreciate the efforts BSH takes to organize these annual awards and show their appreciation for the relations with their transport suppliers. Every day our team is doing the best to deliver a good service and it is great to be rewarded in such a way.”

About the Awards

Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH in Germany is producing household appliances, like coffee machines, vacuum cleaners, fridges, microwaves, blenders as well as one of their latest successes: the Nespresso machines. Bosch is the third biggest company of its kind worldwide with a revenue of € 8.8 billion last year. Bosch Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH has annual awards for their best performing partners in the transport sector.

There are three categories:
• One award for the best transport company in national transport in Germany
• One award for the best transport company in international transport from German to other countries.
• One award for the most environmental friendly transport company.

The award is based on the overall performance which is based on the following criteria
• Availability of containers
• On-time shipments
• Euro norm
• Status of equipment
• Delivery- and statusreports
• Damages
• Usage of the BSH bookings-system