Innovative certification body on growth trajectory with Finance Yorkshire investment
West Yorkshire based Supply Chain In-sites is growing annual revenues and creating jobs following a £500,000 investment from Finance Yorkshire.
The certification body specialises in auditing and verifying product supply chains, ensuring suppliers across the globe comply with the requirements of leading retailers and accreditation bodies.
Technological innovation is enabling Supply Chain In-sites (SCI) to deliver a pioneering real-time assurance model in which constant data collection identifies risk factors faster and promotes best practices.
CEO Rob Chester has 25 years’ experience in the grocery sector with major brands including Tesco and Walmart. He founded the company in 2021 with four other founders. All have a passion for service and an appetite to disrupt the market. They have achieved 50% annual revenue growth to reach £1.3 million turnover in 2024.
Rob’s ambition is to grow turnover to £10 million by 2029 and expand his team from 12 to 50 employees during that period. Clients include Aldi, WHSmith, Grown in Britain, RSPCA Assured and Plant Healthy.
Rob said: “We have created a great team because we all have experience working on both sides of the table. As a customer of certification bodies as well a certification provider. This experience has informed our approach to building SCI as both a trusted certification partner and a disruptive innovator in supply chain risk management.”
The company’s real-time assurance model is being developed following a project in Thailand in which SCI worked with rice farmers to monitor compliance through daily image submissions, providing a continuous stream of data rather than periodic audits.
SCI was a finalist in the North East regional heat of this year’s KPMG Private Enterprise Tech Innovator in the UK competition.
Finance Yorkshire’s £500,000 investment from its growth fund will support SCI’s technological innovation including the use of AI, staff growth and training. The investment has already enabled SCI to make strategic hires in the US and Asia to better serve international clients.
Rob added: “Finance Yorkshire is a hands-on investment partner and understands our model and vision. The partnership has also delivered potential synergies and partnerships with other Finance Yorkshire investee companies.”
Finance Yorkshire CEO Alex McWhirter said: “SCI is to be congratulated on its achievements to date and its commitment to a substantial growth trajectory. The drive to increase its turnover significantly will add to the region’s wealth as well as creating jobs in Yorkshire in the future.
“Finance Yorkshire is pleased to support SCI in its ambition to move towards real-time risk assurance, harnessing the use of AI and predictive analytics.”