Supply Chain Solutions

Our Supply Chain Solutions support can help businesses improve their supply chain resilience and competitiveness.

Supply Chain Solutions is open to 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.

Applications to the Supply Chain Solutions programme are closed. The next call will open on Monday 3 February 2025.

Supply Chain Solutions support is open to any manufacturing or tradable service business which 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.
• Be able to demonstrate how your supply chain has been adversely impacted due to a 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.

The following businesses are not eligible to apply:

• Businesses already in receipt or intending to gain other government support for the project.
• Businesses that do not provide commercial products and/or services.
• Businesses with a minimum total supply chain spend of a least £100,000 in one of the previous 2 financial years.
• 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 which are not authorised as medicines.

For full details and information on the scheme please read the Supply Chain Solutions - Guidance Notes (PDF)

If you have any enquiries about the Supply Chain Solutions, complete the Supply Chain Solutions online enquiry form.

For general enquiries, contact Invest NI’s Business Support Team on 0800 1814422. Lines are open Monday to Friday 9:00 to 16:30.

Our supply chain webinars provide a comprehensive overview of supply chain best practice.

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