This project brings together the University of Leeds and Grantham Institute with commercial developers from BioCarbon Tracker and ESRI UK to provide Sainsbury’s with insights into site-specific, multi-parameter environmental risk profiles, both for now and for future forecasting. Risk profiles will combine three categories of data: multiple layers of geospatial data for environmental conditions; combined with crop models and production conditions (to predict performance); and linked to corporate data (such as supplier locations, supply chains, procurement volumes). Outputs from geoprocess models will indicate risks - by type and location - that affect product quality, availability or cost and allow model-based analysis of sustainability and risk. Within the project, ArcGIS Online will be used to share findings with Sainsbury’s suppliers for specific sites, which will be validated with growers’ direct experiences. The development of this system will provide insights to Sainsbury’s and its vast network of suppliers to make them more competitive in the global market. Insights will ultimately inform investment decisions and contractual arrangements to shape supply chains of the future.
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2009-10-01 to 2012-06-30
Collaborative R&D
Original goals - 'To create a Multi-Modal service on a mobile phone to reduce the stress in travelling with context-dependant User interface Achievement A beta version of the Travel+ London application have been launched on the Android application store (Google Play) with positive feedback from users. Indoor navigation technology was also successfully developed and tested independently by HWC but this feature was not integrated into the beta version of the application.Impact Limited impact have been made on the issue of reducing the stress level of a traveller, since the context-dependant side of the service have not been totally integrated but never the less the team have manage to create a first class fully integrated user friendly multi-modal London journey planner