Supply-Works - Unlocking the power of network effects for supplier intelligence and visibility in the medical devices sector

Supply-Works - 释放网络效应的力量，提高医疗器械领域供应商的情报和可见性

• 批准号: 10072927
• 金额: $ 12.46万
• 依托单位: SENTI TECH LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Launchpad
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10072927
• 关键词: Supply; Works; Unlocking; power; network

**Background**: SMEs are particularly vulnerable to supply chain disruption. Supplier management takes up considerable time and energy for the whole team and presents signi?cant risks to business continuity and viability. SMEs face further challenges through a lack of leverage in supplier relationships (lower-valued orders), competing against larger, better-established customers for supplier priority. SMEs urgently need supply chains to become more resilient and responsive.Senti-Tech is a medical device developer/manufacturer, creating a wearable smart garment to advance the care of people with long-term respiratory illnesses. We have had numerous suppliers increase delivery estimates after placing orders and even after up-front invoicing; not all attributable to the supply chain crisis. We've been hit by quality issues that set us back by months. We've had the anxiety of suppliers not replying to us. In the worst case, critical components were delayed by over six months.Identification of high-quality suppliers is a lottery: until you place an order, it is extraordinarily difficult to know how well the supplier will perform (even when suppliers are recommended by trusted advisors).**Innovation**: We've fortunately been able to invest in our supply chain, and a combination of staff dedicated to supplier management and internal tools to help with supplier compliance have helped us to manage these challenges. However, we realised that there is a better way. One which would allow any SME to attain the procurement reach of a far larger organisation at a fraction of the cost.**Our innovation**, Supply-Works, is software that underpins a network of SMEs. We share trusted supplier intelligence across this network, helping each of those SMEs to reduce time and effort on supplier due-diligence and get access to an active stream of supplier intelligence data, from late deliveries to broken parts. Our proprietary Trust Score will enable SMEs to know which suppliers are likely to complete their orders without quality or delivery incidents.**Outcomes**: Supply-Works has the potential to signi?cantly impact across the manufacturing supply chain. We'll help SMEs make more informed choices about their suppliers and, in particular, strengthen resistance and responsiveness in their supply chains.We anticipate that this will have many positive effects for the Liverpool City Region and beyond.

**背景**：中小企业特别容易受到供应链破坏的影响。供应商管理人员为整个团队占用了大量的时间和精力，并提出了对业务连续性和可行性的风险。中小型企业通过缺乏供应商关系（低价值订单）的杠杆作用而面临进一步的挑战，与更大，建立的顾客竞争供应商的优先级。中小企业迫切需要供应链，以变得更具弹性和反应性。Senti-Tech是医疗设备开发人员/制造商，创建了可穿戴的智能服装，以促进患有长期呼吸道疾病的人的护理。我们有许多供应商在下达订单后以及即使在前期发票后增加了交付估计；并非全部归因于供应链危机。我们受到了质量问题的打击，这些问题使我们回到了几个月中。我们有供应商的焦虑，没有回复我们。在最坏的情况下，关键组件延迟了六个月以上。识别高质量的供应商是彩票：在您下订单之前，很难知道供应商的性能（即使信任供应商推荐供应商，也很困难顾问。但是，我们意识到有更好的方法。这将使任何中小企业以一小部分成本获得更大的组织的采购范围。我们在该网络上共享受信任的供应商智能，帮助每个中小型企业减少供应商的时间和精力，并访问从迟到到破损零件的供应商情报数据的主动流。我们的专有信任评分将使中小型企业能够知道哪些供应商可能无需质量或交付事件即可完成订单。我们将帮助中小型企业对供应商做出更明智的选择，尤其是增强其供应链中的抵抗力和反应能力。我们预计这将对利物浦城市及其他地区产生许多积极影响。