Discovery Day: Managing supply chains for success

Discovery Day: Managing supply chains for success

This Discovery Day will enable participants to experience, explore, and discuss the relevance of cutting-edge supply chain research at the WMG, University of Warwick. This exciting, interdisciplinary event is the second of four Discovery Days from the Transforming Construction Network Plus (N+), which is part of the Transforming Construction Challenge.

• Experience the core concepts that underpin supply chain management 
• Discuss how improved supply chain integration could boost the UK construction.
• Explore the WMG Battery and Connected Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) demonstrators and understand how new technologies have the potential to transform construction supply chains
• Reflect on new perspectives, develop new collaborations, and co-create new ideas 

Administered by UK Research and Innovation, and supported through the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, the Transforming Construction Challenge seeks to produce safe, healthy, and efficient buildings by bringing together the construction, manufacturing, energy, social sciences and digital sectors. As part of this programme, the Transforming Construction Network Plus is uniting academic and industrial communities to create a new research and knowledge base, dedicated to address the systemic problems holding back the sector.

Places are strictly limited, so please register your interest by 12pm Tuesday 28 May 2019. Applicants will be notified on Friday 31 May 2019 if their application has been successful. Applications from early career researchers and probationary lecturers are particularly welcome.

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Agenda - Discovery Day

09:15 Registration and coffee

09:45 Welcome and introductions

09:55 WMG in context - Dr Paul Marshall  

10:15 The Beer Game: supply chain principles in practice -  Dr Mark Johnson

12:00 
Group 1: Battery and CAV demonstrator tours - Dr Paul Marshall  
Group 2: Perspective on improving supply chain integration – Prof Jan Godsell / Andy Birtwistle / Hugh Boyes

13:00 Networking lunch 

13:45  
Group 1: Battery and CAV demonstrator tours - Dr Paul Marshall  
Group 2: Perspective on improving supply chain integration – Prof Jan Godsell / Andy Birtwistle / Hugh Boyes

14:45 Role of contracts in enabling supply chain integration – Speaker TBC 

15:15 Ideas lab: Role of supply chain to transform construction 

16:30 Close 

About our speakers

• Andy Birtwistle, Director Supply Chain Practice, Concentra
• Hugh Boyes, Principle Fellow, Cyber Security Centre, WMG, University of Warwick 
• Prof Jan Godsell, N+ Co-Investigator, Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy, WMG, University of Warwick 
• Dr Mark Johnson, Associate Professor and Head of Group for Operations, WBS, University of Warwick
• Dr Paul Marshall, Head of Strategic Partnerships, WMG, University of Warwick
   

Find out more about the N+

The Transforming Construction Network Plus is part of the Transforming Construction Challenge, a UK-wide programme of activity to make buildings more affordable, efficient, safer and healthier.

Learn more about the network’s context and funders:

• Transforming Construction Challenge
• Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund
• UK Research and Innovation
• Economic and Social Research Council

Get in touch

For general enquiries about the N+, please contact the network team:

• enquiries.tcnetworkplus@ucl.ac.uk

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