Supply Chain North East works with businesses who want to diversify, broaden their customer base and unlock new market opportunities*

ELIGIBILITY

To check if you are eligible to take part in the programme, please complete our eligibility form here and we will endeavour to respond within 48 hours.

*To be able to receive support from the Supply Chain North East programme, you
  need to:

• Be based in the North East LEP area (Sunderland, Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North    Tyneside, South Tyneside, Northumberland)
• Have less than 250 employees

By working with individual business leaders and their teams, our advisors and market specialists are here to help you build on your core competencies, understand improvement needs and identify suitable opportunities in new and existing markets.

Delivering an opportunity review, Supply Chain North East will also help you make the most of new technology, to drive productivity and innovation in new products and services.

Key services of Supply Chain North East will be to provide:

• Access to market specialists – Industry insight and sector knowledge
  on UK and international supply chains
• Sales & marketing support – refining your marketing strategy and
  grow the value of existing customers
• Operational improvement plans – A GAP analysis and action plan
  to help you set improvement goals
• Support with digital transformation – Understanding how technology
  can drive competitiveness, profitability and innovation
• Knowledge on accreditations and compliance – help with achieving
  standards required by markets, supply chains and customers
• Support developing talent – wrap around series of workshops and best practice visits

Events

As a programme participant you will gain access to free, tailored events to help you with your current business needs. You will also  have the opportunity to attend a limited number of NEPIC events and network with companies from the chemical, pharmaceutical and process industries within the region.

UPCOMING EVENTS 2023

We are running a number of of online ‘lunch and learn’ and ‘breakfast bite’ workshop sessions with thought leaders from across the North East. These cover a wide range of People topics including; mental health, wellness at work, menopause, return to work, equality & diversity, neuro diversity, occupational psychology and much, much more!

View the list of events below and book via the relevant Eventbrite page.

These FREE sessions, in partnership with Northumbria University, are open to NEPIC Members and Supply Chain North East participants, with no limit on the number of sessions that can be booked.

• Breakfast Bite – Mindful Leadership Workshop | 31 March, 09.30 – 10.30 | Book here
• Lunch & Learn – The great resignation and the great regret | 31 March, 12.00 – 13.00 | Book here
• Lunch & Learn – Accessibility and EDI in Web Design | 4 April, 12.00 – 13.00 | Book here
• Breakfast Bite – People Process Profit | 14 April, 09.30 – 10.30 | Book here
• Lunch & Learn – Feeding the Mind: Why your 2nd brain matters | 18 April, 12.00 – 13.00 | Book here
• Lunch & Learn – Financial Planning is Self-Care | 19 April, 12.00 – 13.00 | Book here
• Lunch & Learn – Wellness in the Workplace | 20 April, 11.30 – 12.30 | Book here
• Breakfast Bite: Balancing Career & Parenthood – How to Maximise Returns | 21 April, 09.30 – 10.30 | Book here
• Lunch & Learn: UX Design – The People Approach | 21 April, 12.00 – 13.00 | Book here
• Lunch & Learn: Recruiting Neurodiverse Teams | 26 April, 12.00 – 13.00 | Book here
• Breakfast Bite: Using Rugby Coaching Tactics to Improve Team Performance | 28 April 09.30 – 10.30 | Book here
• Lunch & Learn: Resilience Workshop | 3 May, 12.00 – 13.00 | Book here
• Workshop: Climate Connections – Sustainable Wellbeing in the Workplace | 4 May, 12.00 – 13.00 | Book here
• Breakfast Bite: Climate Connections – Sustainable Wellbeing in the Workplace | 5 May, 09.30 – 10.30 | Book here
• Lunch & Learn: Leaders Look Up – Why Technology can be Great for Profit | 10 May, 12.00 – 13.00 | Book here

About Supply Chain North East

Supply Chain North East brings together four key partners to work with over 800 businesses through to 2021, supporting them to identify opportunities in new and existing markets. An integral part of the North East Strategic Economic Plan, that has a vision to create 100,000 more and better jobs between 2014 and 2024. , Supply Chain North East is delivered across the region by RTC North, Generator, North East Automotive Alliance (NEAA) and North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC).

Supply Chain North East is a multimillion programme aimed at revolutionising the way SMEs diversify their offering and embrace new markets. The programme has received more than £3m of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund, which is part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020.