The Supply Chain Research Group (SCRG) at WMG is applying customer responsive supply chain theory into practical solutions that generate both economic and societal value. Collaborating with industrial partners, the SCRG seeks to resolve complex business and organisational problems across agrochemicals, automotive, defence, consumer-packaged goods, retail and pharmaceuticals.
About Us
Supply Chain Research Group
WMG, The University of Warwick
WMG is a world leading research and education group, transforming organisations and driving innovation through a unique combination of collaborative research and development, and pioneering education programmes.
As an international role model for successful partnerships between academia and the private and public sectors, WMG develops advancements nationally and globally, in applied science, technology and engineering, to deliver real impact to economic growth, society and the environment.
An academic department of the University of Warwick, and a centre for the HVM Catapult, WMG was founded by the late Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya in 1980 to help reinvigorate UK manufacturing and improve competitiveness through innovation and skills development.
High Value Manufacturing Catapult
The High Value Manufacturing Catapult has an established record as the UK’s principal agent of industrial transformation. Working through seven centres of innovation, the HVM Catapult is creating the conditions for UK economic growth by enabling UK manufacturers to investigate new technologies and processes and achieve performance and productivity improvements through innovation.
Established by Innovate UK, the HVM Catapult bridges the gap between business and academia, helping to turn great ideas into commercial realities by providing access to world-class research, development facilities and expertise that would otherwise be out of reach for many businesses in the UK. The HVM Catapult prides itself on helping businesses to transform the products they sell, the way they make them and the skills of their workforce to remain competitive in a global marketplace.
SCRG Themes
Risk & Resilience
- Assessing and stress-testing the resilience of the UK manufacturing supply chain.
- Strategies and interventions for UK’s supply chain resilience.
- Developing tools to support decision-makers on how to assess ‘Total Cost of Ownership’.
- Digital tools and methodologies used to mitigate risks and promote sustainability.
- Strategic decisions on supply chain design, and manufacturing location.
Productivity
- Building and strengthening the UK’s supply chain capability.
- How a distributed manufacturing supply chain facilitates levelling up.
- Developing a supply chain that facilitates manufacturing productivity.
- Building supply-chains to enable future societal and technology requirements.
Sustainability
- Developing innovative, sustainable, and circular, supply-chain supportive business chains.
- The methodologies, tools and mechanisms required for Net-Zero supply chains.
- Assessing the sustainability and interventions necessary for sustainability, circularity and procurements in supply chains.
- Using digital twins and block-chain analysis to support Net-Zero, resilient supply chains
Digitization
- Digitisation: a lever to enable sustainable, productive and resilient supply chains
- Data Science for Supply Chain Decision Making
- Using AI and Machine Learning to optimise supply chain decision-making.
- Assisting companies in the adoption of supply chain 4.0
People
Professor Alok Choudhary
Professor
Dr Alok Choudhary is a Professor of Supply Chain Management and the Head of Supply Chain Group at WMG, University of Warwick. His research has engaged industries from various sectors and tackled challenges related to sustainability (ESG, net-zero and circular economy), resilience and digital transformation in supply chain and logistics. Alok's research has delivered significant impacts on businesses, policymakers and society.
Dr Hamid Moradlou
Associate professor
Dr Hamid Moradlou is an Associate Professor (BEng, MSc, PhD, FHEA) in Supply Chain Management at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), University of Warwick. His research on supply chain reshoring, has led him to establish a strong national/international reputation in the field of resilience, sustainability and digitisation, which covers issues of major policy significance such as managing industry through geopolitical disruptions/tensions (e.g., US-China Trade-War and Brexit and Ukraine-Russia war).
Dr. Sube Singh
Asst. Professor
Dr Sube Singh is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG) since May 2023. His research revolves around developing tools and methodologies for supply chain management, focusing on sustainability, resilience, and digitalisation.
Dr. Luke Bellamy
Lead Engineer (Senior Supply Chain Associate)
Dr Luke Bellamy is an interdisciplinary researcher, versed in supply chain sustainability and resilience. He is responsible for conception to delivery of SCRG projects. He is currently focusing specifically on Supply Chain Resilience toolkit development.
Carl Che
Project Engineer
Carl Che's role is to deliver supply chain related projects within the SCRG, seeking for additional opportunities and maintaining a good relationship with the industrial partners. With prior industrial experiences, Carl understands what the companies are looking for and able to bridge the gap between research and industry.
Karen Macpherson
Project Manager
Karen's role is to provide effective support to the delivery of our projects, group activities and external engagement. This includes coordination of project meetings, creation and maintenance of project documentation, tracking of milestones and deliverables and reporting on progress.