UK Supply Chain Competitiveness Charter

Announced in the AGP’s strategy document for 2016, the charter is designed to accelerate improvements in productivity, skills and innovation. This is achieved through increased communication between primes and tier ones, and their UK supply chain, and well as encouragement to engage with improvement programs, such as SC21

Signatories commit to:

• Promote wider participation in structured continuous improvement programmes, such as SC21 and Sharing in Growth, providing informed and ongoing guidance to assist in setting performance targets
• Provide visibility of future growth opportunities and share with appropriate candidate suppliers
• Support the focused development and dissemination of technology to radically improve product performance and manufacturing productivity
• Facilitate access to sources of support, e.g. financial institutions, High Value Manufacturing Catapult, research institutions, government departments
• Invest in the development of skills and apprentices in order to have the resources, capabilities and experience needed to improve productivity and meet future demand
• Build long-term relationships with globally-competitive suppliers.

Signatories expect that their UK suppliers will:

• Engage actively in structured continuous improvement programmes, such as SC21 and Sharing in Growth, to become sustainably globally competitive
• Invest in technology to radically improve product performance and manufacturing productivity
• Invest in the development of skills and apprentices in order to have the resources, capabilities and experience needed to improve productivity and meet future demand
• Invest for growth
• Build long-term relationships.