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Prioritising innovation Darren is discernibly excited about Unipart ’ s ability to bring innovative supply chain products , services and solutions to market – and it has a tremendous track record in doing so .
The organisation has three Centres of Excellence where it connects industry and academia in a bid to carry on developing such innovations , while also bridging the skills gap that many companies in the supply chain space and their customers are facing .
Having witnessed customers and competitors struggling with complex global supply chain issues and , in many cases , seeking to improve their resilience , Unipart has been using one of these aforementioned centres to hone its manufacturing partner strategy .
What this predominantly means is onshoring partners ’ manufacturing needs by helping them to shift some of their supply back to the UK .
“ Sadly , in some cases , we ’ ve seen companies become distressed and go out of business because of their supply chain issues ,” Darren says .
“ We ’ ve been helping customers improve their supply chains by bringing manufacturing onshore and , in some

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