Uk Supply Chain Resilience - Network +

In the wake of repeated systematic shocks from financial crises, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate emergency and conventional armed conflict, The UK Government has made it a priority to investigate potential risks to UK Supply Chains, how they might cascade through Supply Chain tiers and the interventions that might be needed to increase their resilience. The project will focus on the food, fashion, and critical mineral sectors, to identify cascading risks in Supply Chain, as well as the associated impacts and trade-offs across the environment, economy, security, and society.

Re-imagining UK supply chain resilience by employing innovative tools from system thinking, AI, simulation, and machine learning - fed by data and expertise from several specialist domains. The output will be a ‘Digital Twin’, a secure and intelligent digital tool with the capability to run simulations to test targeted interventions, supporting informed decision making towards robust and resilient UK Supply Chains