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Few can say they've worked in a single company for 25 years! 🙌 Congratulations to Jo Bryant who is now part of the 25-year club. This week, we welcomed three more of our colleagues (with more to follow this month) to the ever-growing list in the Nuneaton DC. 🎉 #WeAreRS #OurPeople #WorkAnniversary #TwentyFiveYears #FunAtWork #Congratulations
In honour of #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth, our remarkable colleague Mandeep from our Nuneaton DC, graciously shares her story with us. "Hello friends, my name is Mandeep, and I am a cancer survivor." "I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 at the age of 36, I found lump with a dip on the side of my breast. My GP referred me to the hospital for a biopsy and the effected part was removed. I had chemo and radiotherapy and medication for 10 years but unfortunately, after 7 years, in 2015 the cancer came back, and life became a roller coaster. I then had a mastectomy, chemo and medication for another 5 years." "A person needs love and care throughout this journey, there are so many side effects after the treatment. It is hard to see yourself without hair, eyebrows & eyelashes, but you can get a headscarf and once chemo finishes your hair grows back. Throughout treatment your immune system is so low, and you need to be very careful. Every person needs to do a self-examination. Any lump, hardness, dimple or discharge from the breast, and you need to contact your GP immediately." "I would like to thank my family, friends, colleagues, doctors and nurses for the love and care that helped me get back on my feet. Always keep your spirit up, and you will always find the light at the end of the tunnel." - Love from Mandeep x We want to thank Mandeep for sharing her story with us. Visit www.cancerresearchuk.org for more help and information. #WeAreRS #BreastCancerAwareness
When a global confectionery manufacturer turned to us to streamline their procure-to-pay processes, we helped them: ⚡ Cut the time and cost per order ⚡ Consolidate their supplier base ⚡ Improve contract compliance ⚡ Reduce duplication ⚡ Enhance transparency To learn how our PurchasingManager solution saved them nearly four weeks of working hours per year, check out the full case study: https://lnkd.in/ehDBWHGu #Purchasing #eProcurement #Procurement
Have you ever met a quadruple doctor? Well, we have the pleasure of welcoming Dr Dr Dr Dr Nike Folayan MBE tomorrow (18th October) to host an exclusive virtual session with employees from across RS, as part of our Black History Month UK celebrations. Nike is a phenomenal woman. She is a Chartered Engineer with a PhD in Electronics Engineering. She is also a Telecommunications Engineering Consultant and Technical Director at WSP. Alongside her brother, Ollie Folayan MBE, she co-founded the Association for Black & Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE) and has received 3 Honorary Doctorates and an MBE for her services to diversifying and championing engineering to the next generations. This year’s Black History Month theme is “Saluting Our Sisters” and Nike will be joining us to share her favourite inspirational Black Women Inventors and chat with colleagues about their Black sheroes. Colleagues from across RS Group can find out how to join the session on our Embrace Yammer group. Who is your favourite black female role model? Let us know in the comments below. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #SalutingOurSisters
Join us at our recent London Build event, where we joined forces with our social impact partners, The Washing Machine Project, to successfully assemble nine life-changing 'Divya 1.65 flat-pack' washing machines. 🙌 From this batch, five of these machines are set to be sent to Shangilia, a school dedicated to providing support for street children in Nairobi, Kenya. Additionally, three machines will be making their way to an orphanage in Mombasa, Kenya. Lastly, the remaining machine will be delivered to a women's empowerment group in Liberia, renowned for their incredible work in crafting reusable sanitary pads for women and girls within their community. #TheWashingMachineProject #Divya #LondonBuild #WeAreRS #MakingAmazingHappen #ForABetterWorld
We believe that promoting diversity and inclusion within our own business and across our value chain leads to greater innovation, better decision making and ensures we can recruit and retain top talent to our industry. We've set specific diversity targets to ensure our team reflects the communities we serve by working towards 40% of our leaders being women and 25% ethnically diverse by 2030. We also ask our supplier partners to prioritise diversity and inclusion within their own businesses and sourcing programmes with their suppliers. As part of this commitment, we have established our first supplier diversity and inclusion programme within the RS Integrated Supply business in the US. We have chosen to start in the US as supplier diversity within procurement is already a mature and best practice approach there due to supporting regulation. It is also a high priority for our customers. Our aim is to provide opportunities to businesses that have historically been underrepresented in global supply chains by making it easier for them to partner with us. By working with small, disadvantaged, women-owned, ethnically diverse, and other underrepresented businesses we are building stronger and more diverse supply chains, which ultimately helps to create more equal communities and resilient local economies. #WeAreRS #SupplyChain #Diversity #RSGroupPLC
In today’s industrial landscape, facility managers juggle many challenges: uptime needs, spiralling energy costs, changing workforce demographics, and the urgent call for sustainable practices. Energy efficiency offers real solutions, but misconceptions often cloud the journey to value. This Schneider Electric article dispels myths and highlights often-overlooked benefits for industrial operations. Read more here ➡️ https://weare.rs/3r0w7pU ⬅️ #WeAreRS #SchneiderElectric #Sustainability #EnergyEfficiency
60+ delicious Mexican inspired meals were made for the local community in Central London by our colleagues. Come and join us at Cook for Good to see what was on the menu! 🧑🍳 ❤️ #OurPeople #MakingAmazingHappen #ForABetterWorld #CookForGood #WeAreRS #OneTeam #Volunteering
We’ve got some great news to share, as we have won the award for Best Company for Sustainability Reporting within the Industrials sector at the Corporate ESG Awards 2023. Awards categories were assessed by a panel of independent judges comprising of sustainability professionals in the financial markets, academics and independent experts. Andrea Barrett, our VP Social Responsibility and Sustainability said: ‘‘We were delighted to be nominated in two categories at the Corporate ESG Awards, alongside other leading listed organisations, and even more so to win best company for our sustainability reporting. I believe this is testament to the strong progress we have made since launching our 2030 ESG action plan in November 2021. "Our 2030 environment, social, and governance (ESG) action plan is fundamental to our purpose, strategy and decision-making and is key to driving greater long-term value for all our stakeholders including our people, customers and suppliers. "Over the last year, we have focused our attention on how we can harness our knowledge, expertise, products and service solutions to help our customers and suppliers on their ESG journeys and I am delighted that our communication of this progress is being recognised within the investor community.’’ We would like to congratulate all of our fellow nominees and winners! You can also read our award win2022/23 ESG report at: https://lnkd.in/dUgvSHED
“There was no-one that looked like me.” Fun fact: according to the Cambridge Industrial Innovation Policy, women make up just 26% of the manufacturing workforce in the UK. Our Women in Manufacturing video series is an honest discussion between female leaders in the UK & Ireland about what it means to forge a career as a woman in a lesser-trodden path. Watch the full discussion between Kelly Becker from Schneider Electric and Emma Botfield from RS UK & Ireland now: https://weare.rs/3PogKRm #WomenInManufacturing #WomenInSTEM #RepresentationMatters #WeAreRS
