Digital supply chain hub – Making UK supply chains work smarter

The Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub is a digital innovation ecosystem that empowers individuals and organisations to work together to make supply chains smarter. The Hub will transform UK manufacturing by accelerating digital innovation – making supply chains more efficient, resilient and sustainable.

We’re harnessing the power of UK manufacturing, brining businesses and researchers together to develop new solutions, tackling sector specific and industry wide challenges, and building a powerful UK supply chain community.

With up to £40,000 available for research challenges, and up to £80,000 for technology led proof of value solutions, participants will gain access to the funding, expertise and technical support needed to solve some of the biggest supply chain challenges.

• Research Challenge – Supply chain collaboration– This challenge welcomes researchers to access how technology can generate better supply chain governance and trust

• Research Challenge – Supply chain resilience– This challenge welcomes researchers to explore how supply chain resilience should be measured using digital advanced technology

• Technology Challenge – Sustainable supply chain– This proof of value technology challenge invites technology applicants to support the measurement of scope 3 emissions across end-to-end

• Technology Challenge – Supply chain mapping – This proof of value technology challenge invites technology applicants to explore automated mapping of supply chains to Tier N at bill of materials (BoM) level.

• Technology Challenge – Supply chain imbalances– This proof of value technology challenge asks technology innovators to explore intelligent supply and demand sensing for planning.

The programme welcomes applications from:

• UK startups, scaleups, SME technology innovators capable of developing technology proof of value solutions that address: Supply chain sustainability, supply chain mapping, and supply and demand imbalances.
• UK researchers and academics capable of developing research frameworks and models that address: Supply chain collaboration, and supply chain resilience.