2026 Categories

This award celebrates new and emerging businesses that have launched within the last five years and are revolutionizing the logistics industry through innovative technologies and fresh approaches. It recognizes startups and early-stage companies that are using cutting-edge tools such as automation, AI, IoT, and blockchain to tackle modern logistics challenges. Whether optimizing supply chains, improving efficiency, or creating new solutions for sustainability, these businesses are paving the way for the future of logistics.

This award is open to organizations and professionals across all industries who have demonstrated exceptional resilience in their supply chains. It recognizes strategies, initiatives, and innovations that have strengthened supply chain adaptability, minimized disruptions, and ensured business continuity in the face of challenges such as geopolitical shifts, economic volatility, natural disasters, or global crises. Eligible participants include manufacturers, retailers, wholesalers, logistics providers (3PLs and 4PLs), procurement teams, and supply chain technology providers.

This award recognizes excellence in last-mile logistics, celebrating companies and initiatives that have successfully optimized the final stage of the supply chain. Open to retailers, e-commerce platforms, parcel carriers, logistics providers, and technology innovators, this award highlights achievements in speed, efficiency, sustainability, and customer satisfaction in last-mile delivery. Entries should demonstrate innovative approaches, operational excellence, and measurable improvements in last-mile performance.

This award recognizes projects that demonstrate excellence in supply chain visibility throughout the supply chain. Examples could include projects that have improved order processing, inventory, delivery and mitigated potential supply chain disruptions.  

This award recognizes projects that demonstrate excellence in the efficiency of a supply chain operation. This could involve warehousing, national and international transport by air, sea, rail or road – or any combination of these elements. 

This award recognizes excellence in warehouse management, incorporating single-site operations or a multi-site strategy. Winning entries will demonstrate improvement in the efficiency of operations, be it through process, strategy and/or the advanced use of technology and/or automation.

This award recognizes outstanding performance and innovation across freight and trucking operations in the USA. It celebrates organizations that have strengthened over-the-road, regional, or long-haul freight networks through smarter planning, technology adoption, operational excellence, or collaboration.

Open to carriers, shippers, 3PLs, brokers, and technology providers, this category highlights measurable improvements in efficiency, reliability, safety, and sustainability within the trucking and road freight ecosystem.

This award recognizes organizations that have successfully reshored or nearshored elements of their supply chain to strengthen resilience, reduce risk, and improve speed to market. It celebrates strategic decisions to bring manufacturing, assembly, or distribution closer to end markets, particularly in response to geopolitical shifts, tariff pressures, labor availability, or customer demand.

Open to manufacturers, retailers, and logistics partners, this category highlights projects that demonstrate measurable improvements in supply chain control, reliability, and long-term competitiveness within the U.S. and broader Americas region.

This award is open to home delivery and express delivery logistics operations in an urban environment. It will reward projects or changes to business processes that have adapted to the needs of urban logistics, delivering operational, environmental and/ or safety improvements across the business and the wider community. Entries from 3PLs, integrators and equipment providers are welcome, but should be in partnership with a customer.

This award recognizes the key strategic investments in software that have improved supply chain visibility, efficiency, and overall supply chain performance, delivering benefits to customers. It is open to businesses that have succeeded in helping their partners evolve their traditional supply chains into connected, smart, and highly efficient supply chain ecosystems.

This award recognizes projects that demonstrate how an organization is driving change through the adoption of new, innovative supply chain practices.

This award is given to the best new supply chain product or service. Judges will look for innovation, originality, and evidence that the product helps its customers imrpove their supply chain operations.