Supply Chain Solutions

Access free, tailored advice and support to help your business address supply chain challenges and develop its supply chain function.

Invest Northern Ireland is providing specialist advisory support for manufacturers and internationally tradeable services businesses who manage a supply chain as part of their business, or who are involved in the extended supply chain.

What support is available?

Supply Chain Solutions will provide a 3-step graduated framework of support. A team of supply chain professionals will provide specialist advisory support to help businesses:

• identify supply chain risks and appropriate mitigations
• reduce costs
• improve competitiveness
• identify supply chain opportunities
• develop supply chain capability

Financial assistance towards the salary costs of an employee dedicated to supply chain may also be available, depending on a business’s circumstances.

Who can apply?

Supply Chain Solutions support is open to any manufacturing or tradable service business that meets the following criteria:

• Is based and operating in Northern Ireland.
• Manufactures products or provides internationally traded services.
• Has a total supply chain spend of at least £100,000 in one of the previous 2 financial years.
• Is able to demonstrate how their supply chain has been adversely impacted due to disruption in the production, sale, or distribution of products.
• Has or will reach a turnover of £250,000 per annum in the next five years, and achieve at least 25% of those sales outside of Northern Ireland, or be an existing Invest NI customer.
• Be able to complete a State Aid declaration in the event that financial support for a new key supply chain worker is determined.

Who cannot apply?

The following businesses are not eligible to apply:

• Businesses already in receipt of or intending to gain other government support for the project.
• Businesses that do not provide commercial products and/or services.
• Businesses that cannot demonstrate they are a viable business.
• Businesses involved in activities that Invest NI considers as ineligible or as involving an unacceptable reputational risk, such as gambling, adult entertainment, tobacco products, and cannabis-based products that are not authorised as medicines.
• Businesses owned by Invest NI staff members.

Find out more and how to apply to the Supply Chain Solutions programme.

First published 13 June 2023