Risk Management News
Supply Chain Risk Management Now a Priority for Most Businesses
Information technology, costs and pricing factors, and the global economy viewed as top sources of supply chain risk by corporate executives, but only elite leaders generate a return on their investments in excess of 100 Percent, Accenture research finds.
From Risk to Resilience: Using Analytics & Visualization to Reduce Supply Chain Vulnerability
Complex supply chains require sophisticated, connected tools to monitor risks, predict disruptions, and support rapid recovery as part of a resilience strategy - this has led to an increase in adoption of advanced analytics and visualization tools.
The Ripple Effect
How manufacturing and retail executives view the growing challenge of supply chain risk.
Supply Chain Risk and the Planning Process
Everyone knows the importance of both Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and risk management. Integrating them both makes for a winning strategy.
How Supply Chain Buffers Can Mitigate Risk
Supply chain planning is a proactive approach to preparing for and marshalling resources in anticipation of future demand, however, a problem with most planning efforts is that they assume no uncertainty in demand or supply.
Managing Your Transportation Risk
When contracting with carriers and brokers, far too many shippers focus only on cost and service criteria, while overlooking the need to protect themselves by actively investigating the carriers and brokers they are using.
Transforming Transportation Risk into Protection
Learn from shippers who implemented best practices to achieve success - Maximum benefit from Carrier Risk Management is within your reach!
Exploring Strategic Risk
Business executives around the world say their understanding of the universe of strategic risk is changing. Our survey of 300 major companies reveals how.
Risk Management Solution Highlights Importance of Resilience in International Commerce Supply Chains
Exel, the North American leader in contract logistics, has partnered with its sister company DHL Supply Chain, the world's leading logistics company, to launch a new risk management solution. DHL Resilience360 is a unique tool that enables customers to assess critical hot spots in their supply chains, visualize them and build a risk profile for initiating potential mitigation activities.
The Resilient Supply Chain
To be resilient, global enterprises need new decision tools for supply chain risk assessment, monitoring and modeling. Cognizant of this, Exel has developed Resilience360, a web-based risk analytics software solution that maps a company’s supply chain risks, and identifies alternative options that either mitigate or eliminate risk entirely.
Global Risks 2014 Report
The Global Risks 2014 report highlights how global risks are not only interconnected, but also have systemic impacts. To manage global risks effectively and build resilience to their impacts, better efforts are needed to understand, measure and foresee the evolution of interdependencies between risks, supplementing traditional risk-management tools with new concepts designed for uncertain environments.
Worsening Wealth Gap Seen as Biggest Risk Facing the World in 2014
The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks 2014 report finds income disparity the most likely risk to cause an impact on a global scale in the next decade. Other risks of significant concern include extreme weather events, unemployment and fiscal crises. The report analyses 31 global risks and includes special in-depth investigations into youth unemployment, digital disintegration and geopolitical risks.
Smuggling (Supply Chain) Tunnel Discovered Between Hong Kong and Shenzhen
Chinese authorities in Hong Kong this week discovered a narrow concrete tunnel built by smugglers intending to shuttle consumer goods from Hong Kong across the border to the mainland Chinese city of Shenzhen.
Supply Chain Risk Solutions: A Market Overview
As critical as supply chain risk management has become, the market for solutions in this area is still emerging and evolving. Solutions are incredibly diverse and wide-ranging. Here we establish a framework for the market and examine the segments, functionality, and players.
Supply Chain’s Christmas Checklist: Strategies for Volatile Supply Chains
The challenges that retailers face during Christmas naturally vary according on the sector and from company to company. For many specialty retailers, having to cope with long lead times, Christmas challenges centre around estimating the season’s demand both well in advance and accurately; not an easy task.
Hidden Risk in Supply Chains
A new MIT study on supply-chain risk shows no correlation between the total amount a manufacturer spends with a supplier and the profit loss it would incur if that supply were suddenly interrupted. This counterintuitive finding defies a basic business tenet that equates the greatest supply-chain risk with suppliers of highest annual expenditure.
Supply Chain Management is Vital to Modernizing Public-Private Security Operations
Supply chain managers have no peer in understanding the complexity of the global economic and regulatory environment. And, they are well positioned to expedite a cutting edge approach to public-private security cooperation.
Global Supply Chains Increase Complexity of Supplier Risk Analysis
Almost seven out of 10 business leaders believe supplier risk analysis will become more complex as they expand into new global markets. That’s according to research by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s report Strategies for managing customer and supplier risks, sponsored by Dun & Bradstreet.
Strategies for Managing Customer and Supplier Risks
Some work toward a comprehensive Enterprise Risk Management system while others respond piecemeal by putting specialists in place to manage specific threats. Where does your company fall along this spectrum?
Featured Companies
FourKites is the #1 supply chain visibility platform in the world, extending visibility beyond transportation into yards, warehouses, stores, and beyond. Tracking more than 2 million shipments daily across road, rail, ocean, air, parcel, and courier, and reaching 176 countries, FourKites combines real-time…
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Some of the largest commercial, manufacturing and life sciences companies in the world trust JAGGAER with billions of dollars of annual spend. Additionally, JAGGAER is the leading procure-to-pay provider in the higher education and government sectors. JAGGAER eProcurement and strategic…
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AlertMedia is the world’s leading emergency communication provider. Our award-winning, two-way multichannel messaging system, threat intelligence, and 24/7 employee safety solutions help organizations protect their people and business through all phases of an emergency. AlertMedia supports critical communication for thousands…
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ReposiTrak®, a wholly owned subsidiary of Park City Group, partners with retailers to accelerate sales, control risk and reduce supply chain expense. The ReposiTrak MarketPlace allows retailers to search, sample, vet, onboard, and order from new suppliers to expand local…
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Everstream Analytics risk scores and predictive insights set the world’s supply chain standard, helping global companies turn supply chains into business-changing, market-shifting, competition-crushing assets. Removing the traditional blinders of one-dimensional data, we offer more complete information, sharper analysis, and…
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StrongArm's mission is to create a better future for Industrial Athletes through data-driven safety wearables. We work tirelessly so essential, frontline workers can get home safe after every shift, without exception. The StrongArm mission is to create a better future…
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McKinsey and Company is a global management consulting firm that serves leading businesses, governments, non governmental organizations, and not-for-profits. We help our clients make lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. Over nearly a century, we�…
As the largest nonprofit association for supply chain, ASCM is an unbiased partner, connecting companies around the world to the newest thought leadership on all aspects of the supply chain. ASCM is continuing to provide the industry-leading APICS certifications and…
Control Risks is an independent, global risk consultancy specializing in political, integrity and security risk. We help some of the most influential organisations in the world to understand and manage the risks and opportunities of operating in complex or hostile…
Companies are permanently exposed to pressure in terms of innovations and costs. As a result, companies often tap into new markets by outsourcing their value-added services. This results in complex, global supply networks but also in a range of unknown…
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