Digital Skills Conversion Programme helps JLR troubleshoot Global Supply Challenges and deliver Multi-million Pound results
November 24th, 2023
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Gaydon, UK, 23 October, 2023: A training programme developed by JLR to provide a new career route for the next generation of budding digital engineers has helped deliver more than £430 million in value for the business over the past year.
JLR’s Data Engineering Conversion Programme, which was launched in 2021, has provided dozens of new data engineers within JLR with new skills.
Digitally skilled colleagues are now able to use data to predict global supply and manufacturing challenges. This means JLR can make decisions to protect build schedules for its strong order bank of over 150,000 vehicles, contributing to a best-ever cashflow performance for the business for the first half of the 2023/24 financial year.
The multi-million-pound return in value was achieved by developing digital tools to deliver process efficiencies, automate parts ordering to protect supply, and monitor global industry trends to understand the risk of future challenges and trigger mitigation activities.
These digital tools are also enabling JLR to achieve its sustainability goals, which are at the heart of the company’s Reimagine strategy. For example, they enable JLR to process data on vehicle CO2 emissions optimisation and manufacturing waste management, supporting JLR’s commitment to be a net-zero carbon business by 2039.
JLR’s use of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products to deliver this suite of tools has resulted in a Google Customer Award for Manufacturing in 2023, which recognises innovative use of its products on a global scale.
The training programme has seen 30 colleagues ‘graduate’ since its first cohort. Those graduates worked their way through an eight-week intensive course followed by an additional six-months of once-a-week training before being embedded in specific areas of the business to support their digital needs.
The activity is another key part of JLR’s commitment to providing digital upskilling for its workforce, as part of JLR’s Future Skills Programme which supports its Reimagine strategy to make its modern luxury vehicles available in pure electric form by the end of the decade.
The programme complements JLR’s partnership Multiverse Data Apprenticeship scheme, already underway, as well as the recently announced Everstream Analytics partnership which embeds artificial intelligence into JLR’s supply chain mapping capability.
Source: media.jaguarlandrover.com
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