Finance and Supply Chain Awards Past Winners

Innovative and sustained value creation

Finance Excellence Award - NA

This award recognizes a finance team for applying strategies and best practices that create sustained value for their organizations. Showcase how you’re excelling in data-driven decision-making, cross-company collaboration, AI-powered automation, or other areas to help your company deliver superior results. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.

Remarkable vision for the future of finance

Finance Innovation Award - NA

This award celebrates an organization that uses emerging technologies to reshape how finance professionals do their jobs. This award recognizes a finance team for its creative new approach to a key task, process, or organizational goal. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.

Best use of Oracle Cloud across the supply chain

Supply Chain Excellence Award - NA

This award celebrates a company for establishing the kind of predictable and resilient supply chain that’s vital for delivering great customer experiences. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM suite.

Outstanding leadership in finance innovation

CFO of the Year Award - NA

This award celebrates a visionary leader who’s using technology to reshape the role of their financial organization within the company. The winner is working with executive peers and their team to improve financial performance, forecast what’s coming, make smart investments, and spark business model innovation. Inspire other CFOs with your vision for applying technology to expand finance’s pivotal role.

Innovative and sustained value creation

Finance Excellence Award - LAD

This award recognizes a finance team for applying strategies and best practices that create sustained value for their organizations. Showcase how you’re excelling in data-driven decision-making, cross-company collaboration, AI-powered automation, or other areas to help your company deliver superior results. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.

Remarkable vision for the future of finance

Finance Innovation Award - LAD

This award celebrates an organization that uses emerging technologies to reshape how finance professionals do their jobs. This award recognizes a finance team for its creative new approach to a key task, process, or organizational goal. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.

Best use of Oracle Cloud across the supply chain

Supply Chain Excellence Award - LAD

This award celebrates a company for establishing the kind of predictable and resilient supply chain that’s vital for delivering great customer experiences. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM suite.

Outstanding leadership in finance innovation

CFO of the Year Award - LAD

This award celebrates a visionary leader who’s using technology to reshape the role of their financial organization within the company. The winner is working with executive peers and their team to improve financial performance, forecast what’s coming, make smart investments, and spark business model innovation. Inspire other CFOs with your vision for applying technology to expand finance’s pivotal role.

Innovative and sustained value creation

Finance Excellence Award - EMEA

This award recognizes a finance team for applying strategies and best practices that create sustained value for their organizations. Showcase how you’re excelling in data-driven decision-making, cross-company collaboration, AI-powered automation, or other areas to help your company deliver superior results. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.

Remarkable vision for the future of finance

Finance Innovation Award - EMEA

This award celebrates an organization that uses emerging technologies to reshape how finance professionals do their jobs. This award recognizes a finance team for its creative new approach to a key task, process, or organizational goal. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.

Best use of Oracle Cloud across the supply chain

Supply Chain Excellence Award - EMEA

This award celebrates a company for establishing the kind of predictable and resilient supply chain that’s vital for delivering great customer experiences. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM suite.

Outstanding leadership in finance innovation

CFO of the Year Award - EMEA

This award celebrates a visionary leader who’s using technology to reshape the role of their financial organization within the company. The winner is working with executive peers and their team to improve financial performance, forecast what’s coming, make smart investments, and spark business model innovation. Inspire other CFOs with your vision for applying technology to expand finance’s pivotal role.

Innovative and sustained value creation

Finance Excellence Award - JAPAC

This award recognizes a finance team for applying strategies and best practices that create sustained value for their organizations. Showcase how you’re excelling in data-driven decision-making, cross-company collaboration, AI-powered automation, or other areas to help your company deliver superior results. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.

Remarkable vision for the future of finance

Finance Innovation Award - JAPAC

This award celebrates an organization that uses emerging technologies to reshape how finance professionals do their jobs. This award recognizes a finance team for its creative new approach to a key task, process, or organizational goal. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP or EPM suites.

Best use of Oracle Cloud across the supply chain

Supply Chain Excellence Award - JAPAC

This award celebrates a company for establishing the kind of predictable and resilient supply chain that’s vital for delivering great customer experiences. Nominees must use at least one solution from the Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM suite.

Outstanding leadership in finance innovation

CFO of the Year Award - JAPAC

This award celebrates a visionary leader who’s using technology to reshape the role of their financial organization within the company. The winner is working with executive peers and their team to improve financial performance, forecast what’s coming, make smart investments, and spark business model innovation. Inspire other CFOs with your vision for applying technology to expand finance’s pivotal role.

Best Use of Oracle Cloud in Finance

The Best Use of Oracle Cloud in Finance Award

Finance leaders are rethinking every aspect of their businesses—across finance, operations, workforce, and supply chains—to capitalize on new opportunities and drive growth. The winner of this award will have succeeded in applying strategies and best practices that position their company for sustained innovation and value creation.

Excellence in Financial Close

The Velocity Award

Closing the books quickly at period end streamlines compliance activities and provides business leaders with actionable insights to guide strategic decisions. Difficulties in closing the books can also be indicative of underlying problems. The winner in this category has guided their team in closing the books fast despite challenges such as organizational complexity, business model diversity, compliance regulations, or accounting practices.

Innovation in Planning Scenario Modelling

The Prediction Award

Every organization seeks to adopt best practices that will accurately forecast operational results and assess the consequences of various what-if scenarios. The winner of this award is adept at producing precise plans and clear scenario models for finance, supply chain, marketing, workforce management, or projects.

Best Use of Oracle Cloud in Supply Chain

The Change Agent Award

Supply chain leaders are heroically scrambling to put out fires and eliminate chaos while also predicting tomorrow’s trials and tribulations. The winner of this award will have succeeded in smoothing out new challenges impacting supply chains—by reimagining sourcing strategies, minimizing risk, leveraging automation and intelligence, and bridging the gap between planning and execution to exceed the current and future expectations of their customers.

Source-to-Pay Performance

The Spendwise Award

An often overlooked function, this award goes to the supply chain professional who has steered their department or organization in the right direction to maximize margins and increase profitability.

Excellence in scalability and innovation

The Change Agent Award for Best Use of Oracle Cloud in Finance

Finance leaders are rethinking every aspect of their businesses—across finance, operations, workforce, and supply chains—to capitalize on new opportunities and resume growth. This award will go to the finance professional who has led the way in applying strategies and best practices that position their company for sustained innovation and the return to prosperity.

• Michael Repper | USAA
• Stockton Sims | Thermo Fisher
• Marcel Mouw | Vopak
• Mary Ryberg | Virginia Wesleyan University

The Change Agent Award for Best Use of Oracle Cloud in Supply Chain

Supply chain leaders are heroically scrambling to put out fires and eliminate chaos while also predicting tomorrow’s trials and tribulations. The winner of this award will have succeeded in smoothing out new challenges impacting supply chains —by reimagining sourcing strategies, minimizing risk, leveraging automation, intelligence, and bridging the gap between planning and execution to exceed the current and future expectations of their customers.

• Paritesh Sharma | Zebra Technologies
• Sid Reddy | Darigold
• Matt Harris | Otsuka Pharmaceuticals Europe Ltd. (OPEL)
• Kim Dacyczyn | Newell Brands (Yankee Candle)

The Summit Award for Excellence in Digital Transformation and Innovation

Manual activities and disparate processes are common barriers to innovation and digital transformation. This award will recognize an individual who has succeeded in crafting and deploying standardized processes—across an organization or entire enterprise—to accelerate innovation, streamline operations, lower costs, or achieve their company’s mission.

• Derrek Gafford | TrueBlue
• David Calabria | Avis Budget Group
• Dwane Sterling | Skidmore College
• Richard Menziuso | Centessa Pharmaceuticals

The Velocity Award for Excellence in Financial Close

Closing the books quickly at period end streamlines compliance activities and provides business leaders with actionable insights to guide strategic decisions. Difficulties in closing the books can also be indicative of underlying problems. This award celebrates an individual who has guided their team in closing the books fast despite challenges such as organizational complexity, business model diversity, or accounting practices.

• Jose Juan Pajon | Corporativo BIMBO, S.A de C.V.
• Eugenio Velez | Litoplas

The Prediction Award for Innovation in Planning and Scenario Modelling

Every organization seeks to adopt best practices that will accurately forecast operational results and assess the consequences of various what-if scenarios. This award goes to the professional who is adept at producing precise plans and clear scenario models for finance, supply chain, marketing, workforce management, or projects.

• Timothy Aben | DTE Energy
• Aiman Ali | Nahdi

The Unleashed Award for Best Adoption of a New Business Model

Buyers behaviors and expectations are changing, which drive businesses to accelerate their digital transformation and launch new business models such as Omnichannel, Subscriptions, Direct-to-Consumer, usage-based pricing and mixed revenue of physical goods and services, etc. To accelerate time-to-market, organizations must focus on connecting and streamlining front-and back-office business processes. This award goes to organization with visionary finance, supply chain, technology or revenue operation practices that has enabled their company to expand its product portfolio or adopt new ways of doing business.

• Rich Napolitano | Teladoc
• Keith Diehl | Daring Foods