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Supermarket price war 'hitting food supply firms’: It doesn’t need to be like that

 There is an unfortunate inevitability that the difficulties faced by the supermarkets resulting in the increased intensity of the price war are being passed onto their suppliers. However, if the boards of the supermarkets were to truly understand the principles of good supply chain management they would realize that there was another, and better way. In the words of the 1980s band Erasure, It doesn’t need to be like that.

Engineers from WMG will be running two special summer school workshops at The Royal Institution’s Science Lives Here event, in London, designed to help inspire budding engineers.

Professor Lord Bhattacharyya was pleased to host a visit from Mr Jin Xu, Minister Counsellor for the Embassy of People’s Republic of China, on Tuesday (28 July).

Joining Mr Jin Xu and colleagues from the Chinese Embassy, were representatives from Jaguar Land Rover, Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, The Marches LEP, Black Country LEP, Coventry and Warwickshire LEP, Marketing Birmingham, and United Kingdom Trade and Investment.

Government should use apprenticeship levy to support institutions that boost skills, argues .

Chairman of WMG also says industry must demand programmes that are “built on real business need”

, Chairman of WMG at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, has called for a statutory apprenticeship levy to support technical education programmes to transform training and skills.

Speaking in a House of Lord’s debate on the most recent government budget, which includes a proposal for a statutory apprenticeship levy, Professor Lord Bhattacharyya said that he strongly supports the levy but cautioned that industry must be involved with its design and that “we should be challenging Universities, colleges and business to design technical education programmes together”.

The in Coventry has received a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) on loan from WMG, at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½. The machine will assist students with verification and measurement when producing parts, ensuring they are trained in the most efficient industrial processes and with the same equipment used by world leading manufacturing companies.

The very first Masters student graduated, on Tuesday 14th July, at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ from a technology programme which trains staff from across Jaguar Land Rover. From the shop floor to senior managers, and from all disciplines, the Technical Accreditation Scheme (TAS) is designed to develop employees skills to help create the next generation of vehicles and staff across Jaguar Land Rover, have now completed over 200,000 hours of study in the new programme.

WMG, at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, is spearheading a national research study to highlight the crucial role supply chains play within the British economy.

As pressure mounts for the UK to hit its already downgraded 2015 GDP growth forecasts, the importance of maximising Britain’s industrial output has once again come into focus, with supply chains forming a fundamental part of this process.

The online study, which is being led by WMG Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy, Janet Godsell, launches today, Tuesday 7^th July 2015, at and has been designed to uncover our knowledge and understanding of what a supply chain is, and how we as individuals are an integral part of supply chains up and down the country.

Engineers and imagers from the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½â€™s WMG and anatomists from Warwick Medical School at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ are helping art historians from the University of Cambridge have been working together to try to understand how the two mysterious Renaissance bronzes were made and why they look the way they do by making accurate replicas of the originals. The latest technology-neutron imaging, XRF analysis, 360 degree laser scanning, 3D printing, and real-time x-ray videography - has been involved in this Renaissance ‘whodunnit’.

The Trustworthy Software Initiative, based in WMG’s Cyber Security Centre at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½, has produced a set of videos to raise awareness of the risks businesses run when they put off installing patches for existing software.

Disregard for patching represents a significant and growing problem for businesses of all sizes. According to the latest figures, untrustworthy software is responsible for over 90% of data breaches worldwide, with 99.9% of these vulnerabilities being exploited more than a year after details were made public.

The videos were commissioned in a partnership between government agencies and some of the world’s leading technology companies including IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, and Dell Secureworks, for the Technology forum. The key messages are: leaving software unpatched amounts to gambling away business; seemingly time-consuming preparation is essential for secure performance; and stressing the importance of trustworthy software to the successful operation of any modern business.

The WMG Cyber Security Centre, at ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ has just gained provisional certification from GCHQ for its Cyber Security Management MSc course and its planned Cyber Security Engineering MSc. The certification is a government benchmark which ensures that students are being educated to the highest standards in cyber security.

These MSc programmes are designed for those wishing to develop a career as a cyber security professional, or to take a leading technical or managerial role in an organisation dependent upon technology in its business processes. Typically the students will be from a computer science or information technology education background or from Undergraduate courses with a significant component of either.