Risk Management
Today’s guest post is by Brian Daniels (brian <dot> daniels <at> cvmsolutions <dot> com), VP of Strategic Marketing at CVM Solutions, a sourcing and procurement content and application solution provider to mid-market and large enterprise companies, including half of the Fortune 500.In 2007, North American companies began to wake up to the dangers of supply [...]
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Austin Tetra has been relatively silent since their acquisition by Equifax a little over a year ago. And it’s not because Equifax is in a hurry to dissolve the name (unlike D&B who appear to be trying to dissolve the Open Ratings brand as soon as possible), but because they want their new division [...]
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In Part I of our review of Succeeding in a Dynamic World: Supply Management in the Decade Ahead, we overviewed the various external forces that will impact a company’s supply chain. In Parts II and III we took deep dives into the eight major forces that were identified specifically by supply managers who took [...]
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In yesterday’s blogologue I told you that your brand was a terrible thing to waste - and that the strength of your company’s brand ultimately lay in its supply chain, and not the latest fad dreamt up by your company’s marketing mogul. This means that, unfortunately, it’s up to you to protect the brand, [...]
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Another presentation I hoped to make, but wasn’t able to (due to a prior commitment - and to be honest, if I didn’t have the prior commitment, I probably would have attended the parallel track on green supply chain) at the 5th Annual International Symposium on Supply Chain Management was the presentation on Risk Management [...]
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One of the presentations I hoped to make, but wasn’t able to (due to a prior commitment), at the 5th Annual International Symposium on Supply Chain Management was the presentation by Philipp Hohrath from the Hamburg University of Technology on A Supply Chain Risk Management Process. Fortunately, the paper on which the presentation was based [...]
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Supply Risk … and Supply Risk Management … are among my favorite topics because supply risk is everywhere … even where you least expect it! Just ask Boeing … a company that had to delay the launch of its next major commercial aircraft for want of a fastener! Given the underestimated importance of [...]
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Supply & Demand Executive recently published an article on What You Can’t Afford Not to Know About Your Suppliers by Jim Lawton of Open Ratings, who guest-posted Five Types of Supply Risk, and How to Mitigate Them and Winning the Battle on Risk: Information and Technology back in February. In the article, Jim [...]
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Although I’m not always impressed with Purchasing’s articles on strategic sourcing and risk management these days, their recent article on Best practices in risk management wasn’t too bad, as pointed out by Tim Minahan in his posts Supply Risk: Purchasing’s Take and Supply Risk Profit Equation. In it, they outlined three simple strategies that can [...]
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The Supply Chain Management Review recently posted an excerpt from an article by Jayashankar M. Swaminathan and Brian Tomlin that summarized six common pitfalls and strategies for avoiding them that’s worth a quick look. In How to Avoid the Risk Management Pitfalls, the authors summarized the following pitfalls and their mitigations: [...]
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