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What is supply chain transformation? A guide for UK businesses

At the Digital Supply Chain Hub, we believe supply chain transformation creates opportunities to improve productivity, resilience, and sustainability for businesses across the UK. 
However,...

Supply chain resilience: Guide & exclusive software

In this guide, we will explain what supply chain resilience looks like and how to achieve it. Businesses interested in supply chain resilience can also access the Supply Chain Resilience Navigator,...

Making the case for connected defence data through the Defence Testbed Accelerator programme


The UK Defence supply chain faces significant economic and operational impacts. Parts shortages and long lead times that cause maintenance delays often mean that critical assets sit idle. The...

What is supply chain efficiency and why does it matter?

What is supply chain efficiency?
Supply chain efficiency describes how effectively a business delivers goods and services whilst minimising resource use. This involves reducing waste, shortening...

What is supply chain resilience and why does it matter?

What is supply chain resilience?
In the most minimalist sense, supply chain resilience is the ability to keep operating when disruptions happen. Companies need...

Logistics Living Lab wins Manufacturing Sustainability Award

The Logistics Living Lab (L3), a flagship initiative of the Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub led by Digital Catapult has been awarded ‘Most Innovative Supply Chain Sustainability...

Logistics Living Lab shortlisted in the Manufacturing Supplier Innovation Awards 2025

The Logistics Living Lab (L3), a flagship project part of the Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub led by Digital Catapult has been shortlisted for three awards at the Manufacturing...

Testbeds will transform the UK’s textiles and hydrogen supply chains

By Tim Lawerence, Director of the Digital Supply Chain Hub, Digital Catapult
The hydrogen and textiles sectors may not appear to have much in common, yet both require a rethink of their supply chain....

Testbeds play key role in advancing industrial sustainability

By Tim Lawrence, Director of the Digital Supply Chain Hub, Digital Catapult
Automotive spares, food and hydrogen supply chains face challenges that require a fresh approach to maintain...

The evolving opportunities for warehouse automation

Warehouse automation used to be an option only for larger operations, with one of the major barriers being the significant capital investment required. Solutions were often extensive and complex,...

Effective strategies for selecting and implementing digital solutions in manufacturing

As potential solutions and vendors are researched, new features and functions may be discovered. It's important not to let the scope get wider by listing lots of nice-to-have features. There's a risk...

Product data is an essential foundation for the digital supply chain​

One area that can be overlooked when developing a roadmap to implement new technologies is the quality of underlying data. New systems and equipment may require data that has not been a concern...

Cybersecurity in the connected supply chain

We live in an era where every product’s journey is mapped through a web of multiple digital systems, so the question of security is no longer confined to a single company’s network. It now spans...

How can leaders best bring their teams along on their digital journey?

We have worked with hundreds of SME organisations over the last few years and in almost all cases taking the time to consult and engage with the wider team has paid dividends in the long run. However,...

Digital Supply Chain Readiness Diagnostic Tool

How can you focus on the right priorities and make best use of your time and resources?
A good starting place is to consider your Digital Supply Chain Readiness. Digital Supply Chain Readiness is the...

Innovating the future of supply chains at the Centre for Digital Supply Chain Excellence

The Covid-19 pandemic, coupled with import and export challenges resulting from Brexit and wider geopolitical crises continue to highlight the fragile and fractured nature of global supply chains....

Supply Chain Resilience Navigator

Bring your operations, finance, and procurement teams together to find your resilience maturity.

Traditional risk management treats disruption as an operational efficiency error. True resilience...

Scottish renewable energies - Building digital supply chain resilience and sustainability for competitiveness

Supply chains are under an ever-increasing and changing amount of pressure. However, this pressure can provide great opportunities for digital innovation. The Digital Supply Chain Hub’s Future of...

The Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub ambition

The ambition of the DSCH is to develop new solutions for digitising supply chains, with use cases, new standards and new adoption-ready innovations. The Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain...

The future of digital supply chains: five predictions for 2025 and beyond

Digital supply chains are rapidly evolving, and the next few years are sure to bring even more changes and innovations. Digital Catapult’s Made Smarter Innovation Digital Supply Chain Hub is working...

The future that digital supply chains offer

Professor Ying Xie of the Cranfield School of Management explores a hypothetical model to demonstrate the power that an end-to-end digital supply chain can offer.
In supply chains, we have robotics...

Manufacturing Engagement Survey

UK Manufacturing is facing a supply chain crisis, with rising prices, transport delays, materials shortages and working capital pressure. All sectors are being impacted, with frontline manufacturers...

WMG, University of Warwick Supply Chain Resilience Framework

Managing supply chains has never been easy due to their complex nature. Covid-19 and recent geopolitical tensions across the globe have rung a bell that supply chain disruptions will always be...

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