CarbonVue - integrated carbon and productivity end-to-end supply chain management

该项目将由SupplyVue领导，在CarbonChain和WMG的支持下开发一个新的数字平台CarbonVue，供英国制造商采用。它将在端到端的供应链中提供碳的可见性，实现集成的实时碳和生产力管理，并提供一个框架来促进更大的合作，以减少碳排放。该项目的核心创新是一个系统，将把碳影响归因于每个单独的供应链活动(每一次制造或移动操作)，使用质量平衡方法来产生每公斤产品的绝对碳计量-类似于食品的卡路里计量。制造商面临着一个重大挑战，即到2050年实现英国的净零碳排放承诺。到2050年实现净零将要求企业将碳作为管理供应链的核心租户，增加对成本、质量和服务的经典管理。供应链效率和碳排放管理需要一起管理，但这种联合能力目前还不可用。供应链协作不佳是端到端效率和低碳成本的障碍。我们改进供应链协作的新方法是使用碳的衡量：与成本无关，但是效率的衡量标准，可以作为套利的一个点。这将使人们能够在不必共享敏感成本信息的情况下，就如何重新配置供应链展开对话。将供应链合作伙伴统一起来，以实现共同的低碳目标。CarbonVue将由塔塔钢铁和GKN进行测试，以优化其业务之间的产品流动，展示更好的协作如何使供应商能够增加价值，为所有人带来更好的结果。Babcock International将就其所在行业的产品开发及其在拥有许多中小企业的供应链中的顶端地位提供具体见解，为未来的部署项目做准备。英国制造业提高生产率和减少碳排放的需求显然是当务之急，但改善速度缓慢，需要催化剂。这个项目具有这种潜力，但这种方法需要得到证明。InnovateUK的资金将使该项目得以继续进行，使开发更加高效和有效，并通过提供经过验证的可信行业参考，提供更快的市场和规模途径。

This project will be led by SupplyVue, with the support of CarbonChain and WMG to develop a new digital platform, CarbonVue, for adoption by UK manufacturers. It will provide visibility of carbon in the end to end supply chain, enable integrated real time carbon and productivity management, and provide a framework to foster greater collaboration, in order to reduce carbon emissions.The core innovation in this project is a system that will attribute carbon impact to each individual supply chain activity (every make or move operation), using a mass balance approach to generate an absolute measure of carbon per kg of product -- akin to the calorie measure of food.Manufacturers face a major challenge to deliver the UK's Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050 commitment. Achieving Net Zero by 2050 will require businesses to make carbon a central tenant of managing their supply chains, adding to the classic management of cost, quality and service. Supply chain efficiency and carbon emission management need to be managed together, but this joined-up capability is currently not available.Poor supply chain collaboration is a barrier to end to end efficiency and low carbon cost. Our novel approach to improving supply chain collaboration is to use the measurement of carbon: independent of cost, but is a measure of efficiency, and can act as a point of arbitrage. This will enable conversations on how to re-configure the supply chain without having to share sensitive cost information. Unifying the supply chain partners against a common low carbon goal.CarbonVue will be tested by Tata Steel and GKN to optimise the flow of product between their businesses, showing how better collaboration can empower suppliers to add value for better outcomes for all. Babcock International will provide specific insights for product development from their sector and their position at the top of a supply chain with many SMEs, in preparation for a future deployment project.The need for the UKs' manufacturing sector to be more productive and to reduce carbon emissions is a clear imperative but improvement is slow and needs a catalyst. This project has that potential, but the approach needs to be proven. The funding from InnovateUK will enable this project to proceed, will make the development more efficient and effective, and provide a much faster route to market and scale by providing a validated credible industrial reference.