Single Point of Failure The 10 Essential Laws of Supply Chain Risk Management

by Lynch, Gary S.

• ISBN13: 9780470424964
• ISBN10: 0470424966
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-11-02
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

"Single Point of Failure: The 15 Laws of Supply Chain Risk Management" provides guidelines when managing the risk of supply chains gained from customer success and failures. It analyses and provides recommendations for various supply chain functions and risk, including risk associated during various states of procurement, logistics/transportation, manufacturing warehousing and sales. Also included are risk issues covering product recall/quality, environmental, labor intellectual property/counterfeiting/fraud, IT/logistics, continuity, and political issues.

Author Biography

Gary S. Lynch, CISSP, is an Author, Managing Director and Global Leader of Marsh's Supply Chain Risk Management Practice. He has contributed to the World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Risks Report, been a speaker on pressing global business risk issues for organizations such as Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC/Singapore & Australia), Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), the World Customs Organization (WCO/Brussels), and The Wharton School, Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes. He also leads Marsh's Global Pandemic Response Center. He works as a management consultant, specializing in helping senior executives solve complex business risk issues. He has developed critical thought leadership and solutions around emerging risk issues, including supply chain risk management and financing, information protection strategies and schemes, value chain risk strategies, cyber/IT-risk, business resiliency and continuity, and pandemic preparedness. He is internationally recognized and has held executive operational and IT risk positions at Booz Allen Hamilton, Chase, Prudential, and Ernst & Young. He is a pioneer in helping companies use his leading-edge methodology to transform their risk management programs. Gary is the author of At Your Own Risk (Wiley) and has appeared on NBC Nightly News, Bloomberg TV, ABC, and CNBC, and has been published in CEO Magazine, Shanghai Business Review, and CIO Insights.

Table of Contents

About the Author	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction Getting to the Truth	p. 1
The Laws of the Laws	p. 9
Laws of the Laws
Risk Management Defined
Everyone, without Exception, Is Part of a Supply Chain
No Risk Strategy Is a Substitute for Bad Decisions and a Lack of Risk Consciousness
It's All in the Details
People Always Operate from Self-Interest
Indirect and Secondary Impacts
What Can You Conclude?
Notes
Law #1: If you Don't Manage and Lead Change, You Have to Surrender to It	p. 31
The Risk Wake-Up Call-Planned Change, Unplanned Consequences
We Can't Change the Past, butàCan We Change the Future?
Can You See the Icebergs Ahead?
Notes
Law #2: The Paradigm Should Destroy the Parasite: Begin by Defining the Paradigm, Not by Fighting the Parasite	p. 61
The Paradigm in Action
Why Does the Organization Need to Identify a Supply Chain Risk Paradigm?
Beware! The Paradigm Can Shift without Notice
If the Shoe Fits
Notes
Law #3: Manage Your Business DNA in a Petri Dish of Evolving Risk	p. 87
Expanding the Risk Awareness Universe
Know Your Business-Know Your Surroundings
The Keys to Your Risk Kingdom
Your Operation's Complete Footprint
Your Action Plan
Notes
Law #4: In Supply Chain Risk Management, Demand Trumps Supply	p. 115
Everyone's Customer
Building Your Demand-Based Strategy
Market and Client Factors to Consider
Notes
Law #5: Never Set Up Your Suppliers for Failure	p. 143
Supply Chain Risk Management Program
Sourcing Strategies That Create More Risk, Not Less
Trust but Verify
Notes
Law #6: Managing Production Risk Is a Dirty Job: Focus on Managing the Endless Risk of Manufactured Weakest Links	p. 173
Going Global with the Production of Risk
A New Collaborative Effort
Why Is Production So Critical?
Part Two of the Double Whammy: Labor
Notes
Law #7: The Logistics Risk Management Rule: Managing the Parts Does Not Equal Managing the Whole	p. 199
What Is Logistics Risk?
Cargo and Warehouse Theft
The Piracy Risk
What's at Risk?
Single Points of Failure and Aggregate Risk
Supply Chains Don't Survive on Product Flows Alone; Information Flows Are Essential
In the End It's All about the Priorities and Economics
Notes
Law #8: Mitigation: If Supply Chain Risk Management Isn't Part of the Solution, It Will Become the Problem	p. 225
Now What Do I Do?
Enter the Risk Intelligent Supply Chain
Economic Change-A Catalyst for Redefining Resiliency Management
Predisruption
At Time of Disruption
Postdisruption
What Is Risk Mitigation?
Notes
Law #9: Financing: The Best Policy Is Knowing What's in Your Policy	p. 249
Insurance and Its Role in Supply Chain Risk Management
Background on Insurance in the Supply Chain Risk Area
Current Insurance Solutions and Their Limitations
Introducing Supply Chain Insurance: Approach and Challenges
Corporate Customer Benefits Arising from Supply Chain Insurance
Conclusions
What Does the Future Hold?
A View from the Insurer's Side
Notes
Law #10: Manage the Risk as You Manage Your Own: Your Supply Chains Are All Interdependent but Unique	p. 279
Questioning Old Assumptions
Personal Laws of the Laws
Index	p. 287
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