ELUPEG - Origins and History
Major European opportunities and challenges for manufacturers and other Pan-European businesses were created by the EC92 concept - 'A single European market enabled by the free movement of goods, money and people'
Manufacturers and brand owners redefined their markets and offerings to seize the market opportunities and developed new supply chain strategies, typically embracing the concepts of global/European sourcing, manufacturing, inventory deployment, warehousing and transport, enabled by greater reliance on outsourcing and the develpoment of business-wide systems for supply chain planning and control.
Logistics service providers saw the opportunities for themselves in supporting these business developments and promised to provide European capability for a one-stop-shop for the provision of cheaper, faster, more efficient, more reliable, seamless, simpler, more secure and easier transport and logistics.
The shippers experienced major challenges in implementing these strategies, both internal and external. Challenges were being met but the promise of the LSPs has still to be delivered and the lack of provision on Pan European Transport and Logistics was now a significant barrier to the implementation of European Supply Chain Strategies
Given the key issues above
and a survey which confirmed and sharpened these issues and the
potential solutions Alan Waller and John Doran gave a presentation
on board the Oriana for the Logistics Forum 2001 to tell the story
as they saw it. At the request of the delegates on board a group
was assembled to tackle the issues on a joint collaborative basis
- this was the origi n of ELUPEG. Members engage in collaborative
action-based projects to improve European logistics.