from left: Dr. Holger Hildebrandt, Managing Director of the BME; Awardee Christian Biewald and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas R. Voegele, Board Member of the BME and managing shareholder of the ConMoto Consulting Group.

Automotive suppliers are increasingly pushing ecological measures to strengthen sustainability in inbound and outbound logistics. That is the result of Christian Biewald’s dissertation “Approaches for integrating corporate environmental protection in supply chain management”, which received the BME Trendscouting Prize at the 7th Network Forum in Cologne. The prize is endowed by the ConMoto Consulting Group.

Biewald overcame nationwide competition to win. The prize committee of the Bundesverband Materialwirtschaft, Einkauf und Logistik (BME, or German Association Materials Management, Purchasing and Logistics) recognised “the innovative character and practical orientation” of Biewald’s final paper at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg. Among others the results prove that automotive suppliers are placing great hopes on the introduction of the CO2 PCF (Product Carbon Footprint). As an indicator of climate relevance, PCF shows the complete energy expenditure in the process chain and thus the saving possibilities for companies in reducing CO2.