BESTLOG

A programme supported by the European Commission through DG TREN as the supervising authority. The project budget is CZK 3.05 million. The project is planned to end in February 2010.

The basic objective of the “Logistics Best Practice” project, one of the “Sustainable Surface Transport” projects, is to create an European platform for collection and  effective promotion of exemplary logistic solutions with the aim to:

• improve supply chain practice
• improve supply chain education
• reduce differences across Europe
• set standards
• create new jobs
• achieve better match between EC policy and business practice needs

The project team consists of a consortium of 9 leading research institutions from 9 European countries. The project is led by the Technische Universität Berlin and other partners include: Oxford Said Business School, Szkola glowna Handlowa w Warszawie, Reliant s.r.o., European Logistics Association, University of St. Gallen, Metle, Instituto Technologico Del Embalaje, Transporte Y Logistica a Chalmers - Technology Management and Economics. Those institutions are responsible for various territorial parts of Europe and collect individual logistic practices in them.  30 best practice solutions have been collected so far from various logistic sectors.