Funding for digital supply chain innovation

Up to £100,000 is available for tech solution providers to address critical supply chain challenges across textiles, farming, hydrogen, food and automotive sectors.

The Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub (DSCH) is inviting expressions of interest from businesses interested in developing and deploying digital technology solutions in the DSCH testbeds.

A supply chain testbed can be defined as an end-to-end supply chain environment, where technologies can be deployed and tested using real data but without risking business disruption.

Together with the testbed companies, the DSCH has identified seven potential challenge areas:

• standardised naming system for automotive spare parts;
• project finance and market modelling in the emerging hydrogen supply chain;
• digital product passport for the textile supply chain;
• connected life cycle assessment in the textile supply chain;
• logistics pricing engine in the textile supply chain;
• data driven best before date in the food supply chain; and
• a marketplace for investment in sustainable farming.

Each challenge comes with £100,000 available for a tech solution provider to work with an Industry Challenge Sponsor to address critical supply-chain challenges and develop a solution which will be deployed into one of the testbeds.

See: Unlock Funding for Digital Supply Chain Innovation – Expression of Interest – Made Smarter Digital Supply Chain Hub – Virtual Hub