Digital Supplier - Helping SMEs operate in the post COVID-19 world in a sustainable way

数字供应商 - 帮助中小企业在后 COVID-19 世界中以可持续的方式运营

• 批准号: 82229
• 金额: $ 7.55万
• 依托单位: ENSPAN INNOVATIONS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Small Business Research Initiative
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=82229
• 关键词: Digital; Supplier; Helping; SMEs; operate

We don't know what a post-COVID world will look like. But it's becoming increasingly obvious that it will be fundamentally re-shaped. Social distancing and reduced 'contact opportunities' will be key to social and workplace safety. When it comes to the workplace, many of the requirements to be 'in the office' are driven by the location of documents, tools, machines, and non-portable devices. Physical meetings are less of a constraint. We are now able to Zoom ourselves together from any location to meet. But these other artifacts are generally located on-site or are harder to share virtually. The world is recognizing that now is the time to digitize. We are already seeing this - _en masse_. Microsoft recently reported a 775% increase in cloud services from regions with enforced social distancing. The silver lining in all of this is that businesses now have the opportunity (and frankly speaking, are forced) to re-imagine how work gets done. Which drives three extremely important side effects, starting with the most obvious: 1) **Efficiency** - Replacing the 'paper interface' drives significant process efficiencies. We see a 69% process step reduction in receiving goods using data exchange vs. paper for example 2) **Environment** - Removing paper greatly reduces the CO2 burden on the environment and helps ease water consumption (10 liters of water to produce a page;4 each page contributes 0.092 lbs of CO25 - meaning 22,870B liters of water and 210.4B tons of CO2 from European office workers each year alone) 3) **Employee morale** - Workers that previously labored over meaningless data entry, can now grow into problem-solvers -- which improves morale by making the job more interesting while increasing their sense of ownership Given the size of the opportunity, the question becomes: **How do we give all organizations the opportunity to easily digitalize and provide the means to participate in a digital-driven economy?** Our innovation is to **use existing supply chain data to remove the paper, reimagine processes, and drive efficiencies to contribute to environmental sustainability.** Every organization has data but most organizations rarely do anything with that data. Therefore, we are proposing to explore: 1. Using supply chain data to generate digital supply chain paperwork - providing access to the three benefits above, 2. Identify processes that would benefit the most from this approach, and 3. Re-imagine how these specific processes can operate anew in a post-COVID world.

我们不知道后COVID世界会是什么样子。但越来越明显的是，它将从根本上重新塑造。社交距离和减少“接触机会”将是社会和工作场所安全的关键。当涉及到工作场所时，许多“在办公室”的要求都是由文件，工具，机器和非便携式设备的位置驱动的。物理会议的限制较少。我们现在可以从任何位置缩放到一起见面。但是这些其他的人工制品通常位于现场，或者更难虚拟共享。世界正在认识到，现在是进行改革的时候了。我们已经看到了这一点。微软最近报告说，来自强制社交距离地区的云服务增加了775%。这一切的银是，企业现在有机会（坦率地说，是被迫）重新想象如何完成工作。这导致了三个极其重要的副作用，从最明显的开始：1）** 效率 ** -更换“纸张界面”可显著提高流程效率。例如，我们发现使用数据交换与纸张相比，接收货物的流程步骤减少了69%。2）** 环境 ** -去除纸张大大减少了对环境的二氧化碳负担，并有助于减少水资源消耗（10升水制作一页;每页4份，产生0.092磅二氧化碳--即22份，仅欧洲办公室工作人员每年就排放870亿升水和2104亿吨二氧化碳）3）** 员工士气 ** -以前为毫无意义的数据输入而工作的员工，现在可以成长为问题解决者--通过让工作变得更有趣，同时增加他们的主人翁感来提高士气。鉴于机会的规模，问题变成了：** 我们如何为所有组织提供轻松数字化的机会，并提供参与数字驱动经济的手段？**我们的创新是 ** 利用现有的供应链数据来消除纸张，重新设想流程，并提高效率，为环境可持续性做出贡献。每个组织都有数据，但大多数组织很少使用这些数据。因此，我们建议探讨：1。使用供应链数据生成数字供应链文书-提供上述三个好处，2.确定将从这种方法中受益最多的过程，以及3。重新想象这些特定流程如何在后COVID世界中重新运作。