More than 130 West Midlands manufacturers were urged to access £1.89m funding yesterday, as part of the Manufacturing Advisory Service’s Supply Chain Conference at RAF Cosford.
Closing loops, redefining boundaries, keeping simple principles in mind – these were all key phrases at TM’s Supply Chain 2014 Future Factory conference in London yesterday. Jane Gray reports.
Daniel Ball, co-founder of Wax Digital, looks at technology as an effective tool for managing supplier risk.
Large UK manufacturers lost £58m in 2013 due to issues around disruption to their supply chains, according to a new report.
In part two of three blogs looking at the importance of managing supplier risk, Daniel Ball, co-founder and director of Wax Digital, looks at the change in procurement methods.
In this first of three blogs looking at the importance of managing supplier risk, Daniel Ball, co-founder and director of Wax Digital, outlines why supply chain has become an increasingly dominant focus for risk scrutiny.
HS2 has joined Jaguar Land Rover, Airbus and other prime contractors to address hundreds of SMEs at the UK’s biggest ‘meet-the-buyer’ festival for companies involved in special materials, metal forming and engineering.
Martyn Denton, MD of intelligence specialists QRO Global looks at what manufacturers can learn from the situation in Ukraine.
Is it an optimistic daydream to believe that the UK can really turn the tide of offshoring and tempt companies to bring manufacturing back on a large scale? TM investigates.
How and why did Vent-Axia decide to reshore its domestic fan manufacturing? Paul Davies, group operations director for Vent-Axia's parent company Volution, explains the process to TM.
