Supply-Works - Unlocking the power of network effects for supplier intelligence and visibility in the medical devices sector

** 背景 **：中小企业特别容易受到供应链中断的影响。供应商管理占用了整个团队相当多的时间和精力，并提出了重大的意义？不能对业务连续性和生存能力造成风险。中小企业由于在与供应商的关系中缺乏杠杆作用（价值较低的订单）而面临进一步的挑战，它们与规模较大、地位较好的客户争夺供应商的优先权。Senti-Tech是一家医疗设备开发商/制造商，致力于开发可穿戴智能服装，以促进对长期呼吸系统疾病患者的护理。我们有许多供应商在下订单后甚至在预先开具发票后增加了交货估计;并非所有都是由于供应链危机。我们一直受到质量问题的影响，使我们倒退了几个月。供应商迟迟不给我们答复，使我们很担心。在最坏的情况下，关键部件的延迟超过六个月。高质量供应商的识别是一种彩票：直到您下订单，要知道供应商的表现如何是非常困难的（即使供应商是由值得信赖的顾问推荐的）。**创新 **：幸运的是，我们能够投资于我们的供应链，致力于供应商管理的员工和帮助供应商合规的内部工具相结合，帮助我们应对这些挑战。但是，我们意识到有一个更好的方法。这将使任何中小企业能够以一小部分成本获得更大组织的采购范围。**我们的创新 **，Supply-Works，是支撑中小企业网络的软件。我们在整个网络中共享值得信赖的供应商情报，帮助这些中小企业减少供应商尽职调查的时间和精力，并获得从延迟交付到损坏零件的供应商情报数据流。我们专有的信任评分将使中小企业能够了解哪些供应商可能在没有质量或交付事件的情况下完成订单。**结果 **：Supply-Works有潜力签署？对整个制造业供应链产生巨大影响。我们将帮助中小企业更明智地选择供应商，特别是加强供应链的抵抗力和响应能力。我们预计这将对利物浦城市地区和其他地区产生许多积极影响。

**Background**: SMEs are particularly vulnerable to supply chain disruption. Supplier management takes up considerable time and energy for the whole team and presents signi?cant risks to business continuity and viability. SMEs face further challenges through a lack of leverage in supplier relationships (lower-valued orders), competing against larger, better-established customers for supplier priority. SMEs urgently need supply chains to become more resilient and responsive.Senti-Tech is a medical device developer/manufacturer, creating a wearable smart garment to advance the care of people with long-term respiratory illnesses. We have had numerous suppliers increase delivery estimates after placing orders and even after up-front invoicing; not all attributable to the supply chain crisis. We've been hit by quality issues that set us back by months. We've had the anxiety of suppliers not replying to us. In the worst case, critical components were delayed by over six months.Identification of high-quality suppliers is a lottery: until you place an order, it is extraordinarily difficult to know how well the supplier will perform (even when suppliers are recommended by trusted advisors).**Innovation**: We've fortunately been able to invest in our supply chain, and a combination of staff dedicated to supplier management and internal tools to help with supplier compliance have helped us to manage these challenges. However, we realised that there is a better way. One which would allow any SME to attain the procurement reach of a far larger organisation at a fraction of the cost.**Our innovation**, Supply-Works, is software that underpins a network of SMEs. We share trusted supplier intelligence across this network, helping each of those SMEs to reduce time and effort on supplier due-diligence and get access to an active stream of supplier intelligence data, from late deliveries to broken parts. Our proprietary Trust Score will enable SMEs to know which suppliers are likely to complete their orders without quality or delivery incidents.**Outcomes**: Supply-Works has the potential to signi?cantly impact across the manufacturing supply chain. We'll help SMEs make more informed choices about their suppliers and, in particular, strengthen resistance and responsiveness in their supply chains.We anticipate that this will have many positive effects for the Liverpool City Region and beyond.