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Supply Chain Development Expert Group Plan

 

Bob Gibbon (Chair)

National Skills Academy for Manufacturing

Graham Broome

SMMT Industry Forum

Chris Bryant

Jaguar Land Rover

Keith Copeland

Nissan

James Davies

Calsonic Kansei

Rachel Eade

Birmingham Chamber of Commerce/Accelerate

Andrew Graves

Bath University

Jon King

Corus Automotive Engineering

Sean McKenna

GKN Driveline

Hamish Peters

Supply Chain Groups, PERA

Chris Rowlands

North West Development Agency

Paul Sefton

IngPro

Nick Spencer

BMW (UK) Manufacturing Ltd

Jag Srai

Cambridge University

Jim Sumner

Leyland Trucks

Martin Ziegler

Bosch

 

Steve Martin

BERR Champion, Auto Unit

Matthew Billson

BERR Secretariat Support, Auto Unit BERR

 

The focus of this Group will be make recommendations and to develop an Action Plan that:

Identifies and develops industry-led solutions to the challenges currently impacting on the robustness of the UK automotive supply chain base. It will build on the work of the Business Environment for Japanese Automotive Supply Companies Report in the United Kingdom, and review the impact and lessons of the national Supply Chain Group programme (one of the initiatives stemming from the previous AIGT.)

It will consider the key trends, both threats and opportunities, affecting global, national and regional supply chains; the competitive position of the UK and how to safeguard and improve the competitive advantages of that supply chain; and the implications of a strong and competitive supply chain industry for OEM decision making in respect of attractiveness of the United Kingdom as an investment location.

The Expert Group will address the key issues and challenges arising from the need to:

  • improve the overall competitiveness of the UK supply chain, in strategic as well as QCD terms;
  • address the strategic/management capability of UK based suppliers, with a view to ensuring that skill development is migrated down the supply chain;
  • consider how the UK supply chain can take competitive advantage of developments occurring in low carbon and other new technologies;
  • consider how more effectively to join up academia, professionals and supply chain companies;
  • identify conditions necessary to attract Tier 1 and other key suppliers back to the UK, and to allow those already here to develop and grow;
  • consider ways to strengthen the supplier competencies in the UK based supply industry;
  • connect world class suppliers to OEMs operating in the UK;
  • address the impacts and implications of the threats and opportunities posed by globalisation, including those arising from manufacturing shifting to the east and rest of the EU;
  • improve the route to the market through entrepreneurial innovation

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