Big turnout for supply chain seminar
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PICME product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Mar 14, 2003
Over 80 company delegates attended a supply chain optimisation seminar at Ford College, Loughborough, last week.
Over 80 company delegates attended a supply chain optimisation seminar at Ford College, Loughborough, last week.
The event, held on 6th March 2003 for the UK process industries was sponsored by Fisher Scientific and was organised by the Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing Excellence (PICME) on behalf of the Manufacturing Committee of the Chemical Industries Association.
After a morning plant tour of nearby Fisher, delegates heard from a variety of speakers, including; Solutia, GlaxoSmithKline Ineos Chlor, PICME, Agility Logistics, Dedicated Engines and Fisher Scientific.
Issues presented and discussed included implementing ERP systems for supply chain performance, the benefits of lean thinking applied to logistics, identifying supply chain value streams, use of technology to monitor supply chain performance, and the commitments needed to put in place major improvement programmes in one global pharmaceutical company.
Organiser, PICME, the Process Industries Centre for Manufacturing Excellence, was delighted with the sell-out response and will shortly be putting on show new case studies of major process manufacturing improvement and operational excellence using the centres own approach.
These will be presented in conference format on Thursday 5th June at Cranfield School of Management.
PICME has recently won an additional GBP 2.25 million funding package from the British Government in order to continue its pioneering work in manufacturing improvement for the process sectors.
Government Minister, Lord Sainsbury, who endorsed the new spend will make the 5th June keynote speech and is expected to continue to recommend the continuous manufacturing improvement ethic to delegates.
PICME chief executive Mark Lewis says that PICME's manufacturing improvement work has already delivered significant benefits of some GBP 60 million to those companies who have taken part in the process.
"All our clients to date have saved six figure sums once they have gone through the master-class stage of development." Process sector companies (ie those in chemicals, pharmaceuticals, plastics and allied sectors) are invited to pre-register for PICME's 5th June conference, with an optional supper the night before.
The PICME conference is restricted to 100 delegates, and so early booking is advised.
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