JLR Supply Chain Survey

Calling all Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) supply chain businesses - URGENT SUPPLY CHAIN SURVEY – closes Friday 26th September. 
 
The recent cyber attack on JLR has halted production at the company across its UK and overseas factories, with production not expected to restart until at least 1st October. This is causing severe strain in the supply chain. 
 
The attack has meant that orders for parts have been frozen and suppliers are locked out of their digital ordering systems - preventing deliveries and fulfilment of contracts. As well as the production of new cars, this is also affecting the maintenance of existing JLR vehicles. 
 
In the West Midlands, JLR directly employs around 30,000 and according to a recent Oxford Economics/ JLR report, the supply chain supports around 60,200 in the Midlands, contributing £8.7 billion here to GDP. Back in August JLR together with Oxford Economics published ‘The Economic Footprint of JLR in the UK.’ 

According to the report, in 2024 JLR contributed an estimated £17.9 billion to the UK economy and supported 199,000 jobs across the industrial spectrum. Additionally, more than half of JLR’s total contribution to UK GDP was felt in the West Midlands and the North-West. JLR was estimated to have supported an £8.7 billion total contribution to GDP in the West Midlands — equivalent to 4.7% of the regional economy. A further £1.1 billion contribution was estimated to have been supported in the North West. 
 
C&W Chamber of Commerce, Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce and Black Country Chamber of Commerce are lobbying on behalf of the supply chain, and they need as much data as possible to highlight the issues faced and to feed potential solutions into the work that JLR, the government and Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) are leading on nationally. 
 
Whilst both JLR and the government are working hard to restore systems; the Chambers want to make sure that local supply chain businesses, across the West Midlands, get the support they need to survive this critical time. 
 
Click here to fill in this short survey if you are in JLRs supply chain, or pass it on to others you know who are engaged as suppliers: 

https://www.cw-chamber.co.uk/jlr-supply-chain-survey/ 

The survey runs until Friday 26th September.