Teaching Skills. Building Capabilities. Enabling mind-sets.

Unipart ASCI Learning Academy


To be successful in today’s world, businesses and individuals must be able to learn, react and adapt to meet evolving market and customer demands. Businesses set up to succeed are supported by a culture of continuous improvement and an ability to make improvements from within.

The Unipart Advanced Supply Chain Institute (ASCI) Academy combines nearly 40 years of learning, skills development, continuous improvement, and operational excellence applied inside our own business, our customer’s business, and globally to create a unique learning centre.

Led by Unipart Consultancy practitioners with over 100 years combined experience, our Learning Academy offers a blend of learning and development activities, including in-person and remote courses and tool kits combining classroom, work-shop, digital platforms and go-see experiences for teams and individuals.

The Advanced Supply Chain Institute (ASCI) is a multi-purpose learning and collaboration space in Unipart House, our Oxford headquarters, where tomorrow’s supply chains are reimagined, enhanced and transformed.

In the Academy, we TEACH business leaders the skills, BUILD the capabilities and confidence and ENABLE the mindsets individuals and teams need to deliver and sustain performance benefits inside organisations; from the boardroom to the shop floor.

Learning Programmes


Our teaching programmes combine a blend of learning and development activities for teams and individuals including in-person classroom and workshop learning to remote courses and go-see experiences.

All courses can be held at our Learning Academy in Cowley, Oxford or at our clients’ sites, except for the Unipart Go & See Experience. Follow-on coaching support can also be provided, on-site or remotely, depending upon requirements.

The Unipart Way


Many companies apply lean tools, but what makes Unipart different is that we combine Experience and Partnerships with an engaging approach to create a system and a workplace culture that can truly unlock potential for our customers.

This is known as The Unipart Way, a philosophy and a way of working which is underpinned by tools and techniques that form the basis of our knowledge management system.

Developed over 40 years, The Unipart Way provides a system to improve our processes and continually develop the latest skills within our business and customer organisations. This helps to create and sustain a culture to engage colleagues in identifying opportunities for improvement, and gives them the structure, the techniques and the empowerment to find and deliver solutions. These solutions should create and sustain value, improve processes and drive out waste.
Read our Unipart ASCI Academy brochure here

Alan Jones

Head of Delivery

I’ve trained and coached individuals at every level, from the boardroom through to the shop floor.

With over 30 years of experience leading large transformational journeys and process improvements across a wide range of industries and sectors, I really enjoy seeing the people that we work with grow and develop and make a real difference within their workplace.

Alan Jones