News update; Toll wins “Asia’s best 3PL Supply Chain Provider” Award 2 December 2010 Toll’s Global Logistics Division has been awarded the Global Supply Chain Council’s award for best third party logistics (3PL) supply chain provider in Asia. Toll Group is one of the Asia Pacific region’s leading logistics providers, and its Global Logistics Division won the award at the CHaINA awards ceremony held in Shanghai on 18 November. In a joint award, Toll with key customer, Colgate-Palmolive, was commended for its proven excellence in developing and delivering supply chain solutions throughout China. The award recognises Toll’s first-class operations with Colgate-Palmolive in China. In its nomination submission,

Toll Global Logistics successfully demonstrated the scale, importance and transparency of its Delivery Schedule System program started in 2008 for Colgate-Palmolive’s operations within China. The Delivery Schedule System is a joint effort between the customer and Toll’s account management team, which used Toll’s continuous improvement plan model. Some benefits included:

A more structured approach for placing purchase orders
More environmentally friendly back-end operations , reducing paper usage
Reduced emissions due to better planned delivery schedules, and
Improved efficiencies for the customer’s field sales team in China.