Business Continuity Institute

Research supported by Zurich Insurance Group has revealed that service failures by outsources reach top three causes of supply chain disruption. Three quarters of businesses experienced at least one supply chain disruption in 2012, with the same percentage admitting they have a complete lack of visibility of their supply chain.

This Supply Chain Resilience report is the fifth in a series that started in 2009 to consider the challenge of developing resilient supply chains. This report, the result of a survey of 519 respondents from 71 countries, highlights the level, range and cost of disruptions that organizations face, and demonstrates how a disruption in one organization can spread out over the entire supply chain.

This report summarises the key outcomes of the newly published BCI’s 4th Annual Supply Chain Resilience Survey, which considered the causes and consequences of supply chain disruption; techniques to identify key supply chains; as well as offering up approaches and solutions to achieve supply chain resilience.