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Digital Catapult announces ground-breaking new testbeds to make UK supply chains more sustainable

Digital Catapult’s Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub has today announced the winners of a National Digital Supply Chain Testbed competition. The competition called upon large UK suppliers and manufacturers to develop digital twins of their supply chains in partnership with suppliers to test new solutions that will increase business sustainability and resilience.

The testbeds will be established with NBT GroupHydrologiqCircle 8 Textiles Ecosystems and Contained Technologies. Each participating company will work with their suppliers to measure supply chain emissions, optimise inventory management, and automate supply chain mapping. Doing so will allow for digital twins to be established, facilitating the testing of new strategies and technologies on replica supply chains, to transform cross-sectoral networks and make them more sustainable in the long…

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