Guiding Principles

All ASCI participants commit the following Guiding Principles:

Philosophical Principles

• Providing a Neutral Platform for Inter-organisational Collaboration

o Addressing the problems confronting Australia’s Supply Chains is beyond the capacity of any one organisation or individual working alone. The Alliance will focus on facilitating inter-organisational collaboration, which involves sharing of information, expertise, resources, and experience.

• Working Across Sectors and Disciplines

o Preventing and solving complex problems requires a holistic approach across multiple sectors and disciplines. The Alliance will pursue this by bringing together researchers, policy makers and practitioners from diverse fields, including academia, industry, government, and the broader community, to take action to improve the sustainability of Supply Chains in Australia.

• Value-adding

o The Alliance recognise that there are many organisations and individuals working to improve Supply Chain Innovation in Australia and will therefore encourage innovation and research to fill knowledge gaps, identifies existing knowledge and evidence and builds on it, and collaborates with others to progress solutions.

• Progressing Sustainable, Evidence-based Research Activity

o A great deal of knowledge is already available on what is required to sustain Supply Chains in Australia. There is, however, a significant gap between what is known and what is done. The Alliance will aim to progress and prioritise evidence-based solutions that are socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable.

• Focusing on the Long-term

o The Alliance recognises that solutions to the complex problems affecting Supply Chains in Australia, may take a generation to address and will therefore focus on progressing long term, sustainable solutions.

Structural Principles

• Resources

o The alliance will facilitate and coordinate the appropriate participants (Industry, Government and Academia) and other resources necessary to achieve the proposed output

• Structure

o The Alliance should be a minimal structure facilitating collaboration between Alliance Participants, but may grow into an entity which will form more substantive partnerships with its Alliance Participants

• Adoption

o The Alliance will promote, support, and facilitate the development of Supply Chain Innovation, associated knowledge and expertise in and between Australian Universities, Industry and Governments to the benefit of the Australian Economy

• Intellectual Property

o Each Alliance participant’s pre-existing intellectual property remains the sole ownership of that Participant. Intellectual Property generated by each participant is owned by the Participant, which generated the Intellectual Property.

• Financial Model

o The Alliance will be a Non-profit Organisation

o Participation fees, if applicable, will be subject to the Financial feasibility of the Alliance