Anglia signs up to SC21

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Anglia signs up to SC21

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Wisbech, UK, 13 July 2009 – Anglia Components, the UK’s leading privately owned Electronic component distributor, today reinforced its commitment to its extensive military and aerospace customer base with the announcement that it has signed up to the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC) demanding 21st century supply chain (SC21) programme, and is seeking AS9120 accreditation.

Anglia is now working towards gaining formal recognition under the SC21 programme, and expects to achieve this within six to nine months. The distributor already offers a very high standard of service to military and aerospace customers, including full lot traceability.

Commenting, Steve Rawlins, CEO at Anglia, “The seven SC21 commitments are already central to our business culture. SC21 offers us a great opportunity to formalise this culture, and sign up to a programme which will strengthen our focus on these key issues. We are excited about the opportunity to further develop and improve our business and service by learning from industry wide best practice.”

The seven commitments within the SC21 programme include the adoption of a new SC21 business culture to deliver benefits across the industry and avoid duplication and waste. The others are to deliver innovation, to address through-life cost, deliver on the SC21 plan, show leadership, conduct business in an ethical manner and increase the pace of change.

SC21 is a change programme implemented by SBAC to accelerate the competitiveness of the aerospace and defence industry by raising the performance of its supply chains. SBAC is the UK's national trade association representing companies supplying civil air transport, defence, homeland security and space, and encompasses over 2,600 companies including the British Aviation Group and UKspace as well as Farnborough International Limited who are responsible for the Farnborough Airshow.

About Anglia
Anglia is the UK’s leading independent authorised distributor of semiconductors, optoelectronics, interconnect, and passive and electromechanical components. Anglia’s exceptional technical support spans a fast sampling service, telephone advice from product specialists, on-site visits from field applications engineers and, ultimately, electronics design. An in-house team of designers adds expert resources to customers' design teams, helps reduce final product costs and accelerates development times. Anglia stocks over 700 million components from 500,000 product lines in the UK, and streamlines its customer’s logistics and reduces costs through KAN-BAN, EDI, and customer-dedicated inventory.

For further details please contact:
Michelene Hircock at Anglia, Sandall Road, Wisbech, PE13 2PS, UK.
Phone: +44 (0)1945 47 47 47; Web: www.anglia.com; Email: mh@anglia.com