Unipart Rail has enthusiastically signed up to the Rail Supply Group's Work Pipeline Visibility Charter as we recognise that this will help the industry to response with more agility to the challenges of the modern railway.
The RSG Charter is aimed at businesses across the UK that supply services, or products to the rail sector. As signatories of the Charter, businesses will be giving their commitment to sharing their work pipeline information with their suppliers.
The RSG is asking businesses supplying the rail industry – infrastructure contractors, technology suppliers, consultancies, original equipment manufacturers, project management companies and SME specialist suppliers – to commit to the Rail Supply Group’s Work Pipeline Visibility Charter:
We will provide work pipeline visibility across the supply chain to allow our suppliers to plan and invest with confidence, driving improvements in productivity, collaboration, and delivery of outcomes.
In-depth research undertaken earlier this year on 8 pilot projects with 28 participants from the UK’s rail industry was led by the Rail Supply Group’s Sustainable Industry Champion and CEO of Keltbray, Darren James. The research concluded that by making work pipelines visible to suppliers, businesses would see significant improvements in productivity since suppliers would have sufficient time to plan the delivery of work more efficiently and, of equal importance, committing to sharing project work pipelines down through the supply chain was identified as a vehicle to increase collaboration and trust.
Unipart Rail's Managing Director UK Rail Commercial, Kelly Warburton said: "Our position in managing the supply chain for some of the industry's biggest players means that we understand the challenges of planning and materials management. The Charter signals our - and others' - intent to make planning and sourcing simpler to manage in a very complex industry. Our role in managing the end-to-end supply chain of some very technical products is complicated where thousands of product lines are required in bespoke kits and scheduling patterns. The Charter aligns with our own work in supporting the supply base and managing scarce materials across a wide geography."
Darren James, Keltbray and RSG’s Work Pipeline Charter lead said:
“This is your call to action. Today and over the coming weeks we are asking businesses supplying the rail sector to sign the Work Pipeline Visibility Charter, we ask that you are proactive in your commitment and use our branding to publicise the fact that your business is committed to creating a more transparent and collaborative working culture for the benefit of our entire industry. This is one step along the way towards increasing work pipeline visibility across the industry and hard wiring this to a step change in productivity and lower carbon solutions.”
Read the Charter here.
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