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24 | 4TH - 10TH MAY 2018 | UTILITY WEEK Operations & Assets Utility Week Awards winner case study Supply Chain Excellence Award Award winner: Anglian Water • Title of project/initiative: the @one Alliance • Anglian Water turnover: £1.2 billion • Number of directlyemployed staff at Anglian Water: 4,000 Entry criteria: • Quality of entry – clear, evidence based. • Clear goals set for the project that were met or exceeded. • Evidence of collaboration with the supply chain. • Measurable benefits for the business, both directly in relation to this partner ship and more broadly. • Evidence of ongoing learnings for the business and its supply chain. The Utility Week Awards are held in asso ciation with CGI and Capgemini. The 2018 Utility Week Awards will be opening soon. Sponsorship opportunities are available – contact Utility Week busi ness development manager Ben Ham mond on benhammond@favhouse.com or 01342 332116 for more information. All for one and one for all Anglian Water's @one alliance won the Supply Chain Excellence Award at 2017's Utility Week Awards. In this case study, we look at qualities of the initiative that made it an award winner. T he Anglian Water @one alliance is a collaborative organisation of consult ants, contractors and extended supply chain partners working together to deliver more than half of Anglian Water's capital investment programme. By the end of the sixth asset manage ment plan period (AMP6), in March 2020, the @one alliance will have delivered around 800 schemes worth £1.2 billion. These schemes cover designing and building water treatment and water recycling centres, as well as improving and maintaining water mains and sewerage networks across the East of England. Anglian claims the model allows it to set "radical and ambitious" goals such as halv ing carbon. This, it says, has galvanised its engineers, and led to an "explosion" of inno vation in digital technologies. Moreover, the results of alliancing and collaboration can be clearly measured. It has reduced carbon, reduced cost and helped keep customer bills low. The scale of the initiative The @one alliance delivers projects on behalf of Anglian across its entire portfolio. More than 50 per cent of the water compa ny's AMP6 schemes have been or are being delivered by the alliance. Anglian is the biggest water company in the UK by geographic area. It claims its alli ance model and approach to supply chain management is "held up as best practice" by companies and experts across the engineer ing and construction sectors globally. What was the target group? The @one alliance is a "revolutionary con cept" in supply chain management built on collaboration. It has become the driving force for innovation across Anglian's busi ness and the supply chain sector. It is not aimed at any one target group, because it is a concept rather than a project. It has, however, achieved certain, targeted goals such as reducing carbon and reducing cost, which have helped generate efficiencies and keep customer bills low. Why this approach? Having worked in the traditional way with contractor partners for each individual infra structure project and seeing the learning and knowledge that was lost each time a new job was started with a new contractor, Anglian believed it was possible to take a more col laborative approach that would stimulate investment in innovation and fundamentally retain learning within the organisation to benefit future schemes too. Aer a fresh look at its approach to sup ply chain management, the first alliance took the company away from the traditional projectbyproject client and supplier rela tionships found in the rest of the industry, to true partnerships with collaboration at their heart. Having proven successful at that early stage, it has since grown and evolved to the alliance model it is today. What were the initiative's KPIs? The alliance delivered on all its performance targets for AMP5. It achieved: 30 per cent efficiency gains (22.5 per cent target); 54 per cent reduction in embodied carbon (50 per cent target for 2015); and 26 per cent reduc tion in operational carbon (20 per cent target for 2015). Anglian says achieving its carbon KPIs has only been possible because of the rela tionships and shared goals of its @one alliance. The @one alliance is delivering more than half of Anglian Water's £2 billion capital investment programme

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