Risk Management

This incident is leaving many aviation experts wondering why Boeing is so reliant on one manufacturer of the fuselages instead of multiple suppliers, like the company does with other models.

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.

“We live in a volatile world and whether that’s because of what nature wrought or the human element, every nation is prone to some form of risk,” said Margareta Wahlström, United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General (SRSG) for Disaster Risk Reduction.

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.

How manufacturing and retail executives view the growing challenge of supply chain risk.

Everyone knows the importance of both Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and risk management. Integrating them both makes for a winning strategy.

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.

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.

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Business executives around the world say their understanding of the universe of strategic risk is changing. Our survey of 300 major companies reveals how.

Peeling the Layers of Perceived Protection.

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.

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.

According to research published recently by CDP and Accenture, companies are increasingly recognizing climate risk in their supply chains. But investment in emissions reductions programs is going down.

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.