Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) | SC21

🎉 Happy New Year 🎉 🎇 2025 has the potential to offer an exciting period of growth and opportunity for our sectors. 💖 As your trusted partner in raising the supply chain capability of UK SMEs, we look forward to an impactful and prosperous year ahead. We can't wait to get started! Harriet W. | Steve Collins RD | Jordan Croskery | Jeffrey Schutter | Nancy Jardine | Nicola Green | Morgan Boyce #SC21 #AeroExcellence #ESG #Continuousimprovement

Ready to progress your ESG goals? Aimed at SMEs looking to develop their ESG knowledge, join us on 16 January for a workshop with Safran at their Gloucester site. Book your place now!

🎄🎁 Message from Services Director Harriet W. 💝 As we wrap up another year, I want to take a moment to tell you how much I enjoy working with you all, and to express my sincere gratitude to you all for your hard work, dedication, and teamwork. This year has been filled with challenges, opportunities, and achievements that we’ve navigated together, and I believe that thanks to your hard work, the SCS Framework has more depth and more credibility than ever before. ✨ I hope that the festive season will bring you joy, rest, and happy moments with your loved ones. As we step into the new year, I look forward to carrying on the momentum we’ve built, embracing the opportunities ahead with the same enthusiasm and determination.    With all of my best wishes Harriet

Key dates from ATI on funding - don’t miss out!

For Quality to realise its full potential in supporting business transformation, we need a talented workforce to help get us there. During the ADS World Quality Week event last month, we caught up with Lilly Caskey, Project Assurance Engineer at Leonardo who has just completed her apprenticeship. Hear Lilly's enthusiasm for Quality and explain why apprenticeships provide an excellent route in. Be part of the Quality Evolution! #qualityevolution #qualityengineering #digitaltransformation #apprenticeships CQI | The Chartered Quality Institute Edward Raggett | Reuben Gomez | Gavin Adey | Vincent Desmond | Simon Wilson FRAeS

This week we were delighted to run the first Aero Excellence Assessor Onboarding session to be held in the UK. Robust business assessments are at the very heart of the Aero Excellence programme. 21 attendees from across the aerospace and defence sectors attended including ADS Group Ltd Airbus Aircraft AS Compete Collins Aerospace Farnborough Aerospace Consortium Leonardo MBDA Spirit AeroSystems Thales Aerospace THE EXCELLENCE PARTNERSHIP LTD West of England Aerospace Forum - WEAF   This is the first step on building the assessor pool in the UK, following the launch event in Munich last week. #aeroexcellence #continuousimprovement #supplychainexcellence GIFAS - Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales

📢 And the winner goes to....   ADS Services Director Harriet W. presented the 'Sustainability' award at West of England Aerospace Forum - WEAF's Making a Difference Awards event last night. The winners, Infinity Systems Engineering, won for their approach to sustainability including producing an accurate Carbon Calculator (CO2 equivalent) to support reducing and offsetting emissions and adopting carbon reduction opportunities through employee led initiatives in their operations. Congratulations to all award winners last night.   Want to measure your carbon emissions? View our GHG Guidelines, created specifically for aerospace and defence organisations: https://lnkd.in/enRRDXKk #sustainability #netzero #aerospace

👏 Last week saw the first of our new gatherings of SC21 Award Winners, OEMs and the MOD to celebrate success. The group met in the magnificent Pegasus House, courtesy of Airbus.   The morning’s activity included updates on SC21 and an introduction to Aero Excellence followed by networking over lunch. The afternoon gave the award winners a chance to meet individually with the OEMs and MOD.    💖 Thank you Airbus for hosting and to Leonardo Helicopters, MBDA, BAE Systems, Thales, Babcock International Group, Rolls-Royce, Collins Aerospace and UK Ministry of Defence for supporting.   #operationalexcellence #continuousimprovement #success

Expansion of the SCS Competitiveness toolkit took a step closer today with the signing of the Aero Excellence International association by ADS Group Ltd, BDLI Bundesverband der Deutschen Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie e.V. and GIFAS - Groupement des Industries Françaises Aéronautiques et Spatiales.    Find out more about the new programme and how it supports UK industry here: https://lnkd.in/eeKCAXcP

Inspired by the NATEP and DTEP technology presentations at Advanced Engineering at the NEC 2 weeks ago and want to get involved? The application dates for the next round of SME funding for R&D are now live on the @ATI website. The SME programme is tailored to the needs of SMEs to strengthen and further encourage technology innovation within the supply chain and civil aerospace sector. Outline applications are welcome from Monday January 13th 2025 But why wait? - If you’re developing a technology that feeds into the Destination Zero strategy the Draft Outline Stage is now open. This Draft Outline Stage review process allows you to receive feedback on your application prior to formal submission Full details on SME programme dates and how to apply can be found using the link below. https://lnkd.in/egec7tCm #Innovation #Aerospace #Funding