Business disruptions are costing each mid-sized UK manufacturer an average of £228,000 a year, the highest of any sector surveyed, according to a report published by Zurich Insurance.
Economic, geopolitical and environmental factors mean regular supply chain audits are essential to protect global procurement platforms, says Peter Russell, head of manufacturing sector coverage at Royal Bank of Scotland.
Limitations on marketing rights for suppliers to the Olympics are stifling the economic benefit the Games should be bringing to the UK, says Jane Gray.
Do British SMEs get a big enough share of tier one contracts? Developing UK supply chains to enable growth was debated by 250 delegates and a panel of experts at the third National Manufacturing Debate at Cranfield University on Wednesday.
Manufacturers that wish to apply for funding under the Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative have two weeks before the Round One deadline on June 13.
A 6,000 tonne section of aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth passed under the iconic Forth Bridges, in Scotland, on Friday en-route to Babcock’s Rosyth Dockyard.
Huge numbers of counterfeit Chinese electronics have entered the global aerospace supply chain with over one million believed to have be in use on US military aircraft.
How can collaborative approaches to the elimination of waste and the challenges of increasing complexity help manufacturers? Richard Jones, business manager for supply chain at improvement specialist, Newton, leads discussion on the extent to which lean expertise in manufacturing firms is being used to pull up the overall performance of supply chains.
A team of supply chain professionals from food manufacturing giant Kraft Foods have taken the lead in online heats for the supply chain skills competition run by logistics consultancy Scala.
Transport costs have escalated for manufacturing companies over the past few years. Tim Fawkes of transport management company 3t Logistics explains how businesses can make their supply chain more cost effective.
