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Physical Supply Chain Committee

Page last updated 25th April 2019

Mission Statement
The aim of the BIC Physical Supply Chain Committee is to gather together senior strategic representatives from across the publishing and bookselling industry to steer BIC's work in the physical supply chain and ensure that printed books and their associated workflows continue to have a strong industry voice.

This committee agrees it is in the book industry’s interest to establish a leaner, more efficient, innovative and collaborative physical supply chain to save costs, reduce waste ,and improve information exchange and customer service.

In order to best serve the interests of the book industry in this way, and to be able to adapt to the rapidly changing expectations of its customers, the committee will support, evolve & enhance standards and best practice for the UK supply chain always with an international view and will engage with other BIC Committees and industry organisations including the Publishers Green Network (or equivalent) where appropriate.

The committee firmly supports the creating and selling of printed books.

Minutes from the most recent meeting

Physical Supply Chain Committee Terms of Reference

Member	Organisation
Alaina-Marie Bassett	Book Industry Communication
Vivienne Clay	HarperCollins Publishers
Russell Evans	Simon & Schuster
John Garrould	Bertrams
Matthew Hogg	Macmillan Distribution (MDL)
Sue Kelly	Publiship
Stephen Long	Nielsen
Andrew MacBeth	Waterstones
Simon Pallant	Gardners
Peter Skone	Penguin Random House
Caroline Summers	Emerald Publishing
Fraser Tanner (Chair)	Batch
Karina Urquhart	Book Industry Communication

Date of next Committee meeting: Thursday 11th July 2019.

BIC members interested in joining the BIC Physical Supply Chain Committee should complete the application form here and send to info@bic.org.uk
Please note, the opportunity to sit on any BIC Committee or Group is reserved solely for BIC members.

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Technical Implementation Clinic (Trade)

Minutes from the most recent meeting

BIC Technical Implementation Clinic Terms of Reference

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BIC Realtime Review Group

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Active Task & Finish Working Groups

Physical Supply Chain Map Task & Finish Working Group

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