Latest posts about Risk Management
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Smuggling (Supply Chain) Tunnel Discovered Between Hong Kong and Shenzhen
December 28, 2013
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
December 25, 2013
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
December 24, 2013
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
December 16, 2013
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
December 9, 2013
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
December 3, 2013
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
December 1, 2013
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?
The Risk Intelligent Approach to Outsourcing and Offshoring
November 23, 2013
This paper offers guidance for executives and managers who have a stake in the success of O/O initiatives, and provides a risk intelligent approach to address the risk and maximize the value of an O/O strategy.
Supply Chain Risk Management: Knowing the Risks — Mitigating and Responding for Success
November 15, 2013
If the last few years have shown us anything it is that the supply chain is being exposed to more and more risk. Some of this risk can be managed through better supply chain design; assessing where supply “choke points” are and building in supply and logistical redundancy. Other risk, however, must be managed through better response capabilities.
Investing in disaster resiliance
November 12, 2013
Direct physical losses from disasters are not only following a steady upward path, but are also rising more rapidly than regional GDP
The Bullwhip Effect in Action
November 5, 2013
The ripple effect of small changes in customer demand are magnified upstream through a supply chain all the way from the customer to the retailer to distributor to manufacturer. It is so named because of the resemblance to a bullwhip as the variability of demand increases sharply when you progress up the supply chain.
Creating Resilient Supply Chains: A Practical Guide
November 4, 2013
This report commissioned by the Department for Transport and undertaken by Cranfield School of Management’s Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management
(CLSCM) aims to clarify the complex issues inherent in the identification and management of supply chain vulnerability.
Remaking American Security
September 19, 2013
This report—prepared by Guardian Six Consulting LLC for the Alliance for American Manufacturing—recommends 10 actions to make America less dependent on foreign nations for the vital products that
enable America’s soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines to be the most powerful and effective fighting force in the world.
The Importance of a Thorough, Well-Managed Supply Chain Risk Strategy
September 19, 2013
Organizations should consider how the costs of managing risk balance out with potential lost revenue and damage to reputation that can result from a disruption to operations caused by a natural disaster or political instability in key supplier regions. To be a global business, supply chain risk management is a necessity. The key is to determine how to do it efficiently and effectively.
Situation Awareness for Disaster Management in the Information Age
September 13, 2013
This article looks at how advancements in information systems affect situation awareness in disaster management. The article considers the collection of intelligence, the collation of those observations into a common operating picture and distribution of awareness updates in a form that can drive effective action.