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Poor inventory management can increase costs and damage cash flows according to Geoff Relph and Catherine Milner, associate lecturers at WMG, and co-authors of a new book entitled Inventory Management.

Readers are taken through a step-by-step journey, enabling managers to take control of their inventory systems and ensure operations run smoothly; it examines how it should work and how to control and balance it, as well as focusing on KPIs that have been proven to significantly improve performance.

In addition the book features interesting case studies to illustrate best practice, looking at inventory management in diverse areas such as supermarkets and aerospace.

Inventory Management, published by Kogan Page, is available now from

Professor Anthony Cheetham was awarded a prestigious Honorary Doctorate on Tuesday 14 July from WMG for his outstanding contribution to materials science.

Professor Cheetham is one of the world’s outstanding materials scientists and his sustained research output includes 600 journal publications achieving 30,000 citations. His exceptional academic creativity has led to ground-breaking innovations in materials chemistry that have formed the basis of global research efforts. He has combined this with a passionate commitment to science that culminated with his appointment as Treasurer and Vice President of The Royal Society, a fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists.

Supermarket price war 'hitting food supply firms’: It doesn’t need to be like that

 There is an unfortunate inevitability that the difficulties faced by the supermarkets resulting in the increased intensity of the price war are being passed onto their suppliers. However, if the boards of the supermarkets were to truly understand the principles of good supply chain management they would realize that there was another, and better way. In the words of the 1980s band Erasure, It doesn’t need to be like that.

Engineers from WMG will be running two special summer school workshops at The Royal Institution’s Science Lives Here event, in London, designed to help inspire budding engineers.

Professor Lord Bhattacharyya was pleased to host a visit from Mr Jin Xu, Minister Counsellor for the Embassy of People’s Republic of China, on Tuesday (28 July).

Joining Mr Jin Xu and colleagues from the Chinese Embassy, were representatives from Jaguar Land Rover, Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire Local Enterprise Partnership, The Marches LEP, Black Country LEP, Coventry and ¹û¶³´«Ã½shire LEP, Marketing Birmingham, and United Kingdom Trade and Investment.

Government should use apprenticeship levy to support institutions that boost skills, argues .

Chairman of WMG also says industry must demand programmes that are “built on real business need”

, Chairman of WMG at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, has called for a statutory apprenticeship levy to support technical education programmes to transform training and skills.

Speaking in a House of Lord’s debate on the most recent government budget, which includes a proposal for a statutory apprenticeship levy, Professor Lord Bhattacharyya said that he strongly supports the levy but cautioned that industry must be involved with its design and that “we should be challenging Universities, colleges and business to design technical education programmes together”.

The in Coventry has received a Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) on loan from WMG, at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½. The machine will assist students with verification and measurement when producing parts, ensuring they are trained in the most efficient industrial processes and with the same equipment used by world leading manufacturing companies.

The very first Masters student graduated, on Tuesday 14th July, at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ from a technology programme which trains staff from across Jaguar Land Rover. From the shop floor to senior managers, and from all disciplines, the Technical Accreditation Scheme (TAS) is designed to develop employees skills to help create the next generation of vehicles and staff across Jaguar Land Rover, have now completed over 200,000 hours of study in the new programme.

WMG, at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½, is spearheading a national research study to highlight the crucial role supply chains play within the British economy.

As pressure mounts for the UK to hit its already downgraded 2015 GDP growth forecasts, the importance of maximising Britain’s industrial output has once again come into focus, with supply chains forming a fundamental part of this process.

The online study, which is being led by WMG Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Strategy, Janet Godsell, launches today, Tuesday 7^th July 2015, at and has been designed to uncover our knowledge and understanding of what a supply chain is, and how we as individuals are an integral part of supply chains up and down the country.

Engineers and imagers from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s WMG and anatomists from ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Medical School at the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ are helping art historians from the University of Cambridge have been working together to try to understand how the two mysterious Renaissance bronzes were made and why they look the way they do by making accurate replicas of the originals. The latest technology-neutron imaging, XRF analysis, 360 degree laser scanning, 3D printing, and real-time x-ray videography - has been involved in this Renaissance ‘whodunnit’.