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

by Gary S. Lynch

• ISBN13: 9780470570463
• ISBN10: 0470570466
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2009-10-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Over the past decade organizations have faced relentless customer demand for better value at less cost, individual customization, greater choice, faster delivery, higher quality, exceptional service, and more recently - increased environmental and social consciousness. The organization's weapon of choice to address this increasing demand has been the supply chain. However, as the supply chain footprint changed (e.g. outsourcing, off-shoring and customer/vendor empowerment) so did the organization's exposure to uncertainty. Organizations were taken by surprise since this exposure was unanticipated, complex and beyond their ability to manage. As customers become more demanding and change occurs at an even greater pace, supply chain risk continues to propagate like a parasite. Organizations and societies are at much greater risk of systemic failure because of the massive interdependency throughout global supply chains. The priority now is two-fold; play catch-up and address these massive gaps while deploying more intelligent and integrated strategies (i.e. social aware, instinctive, dynamic and predictive) for dealing with continuous change.Single Point of Failure: The 10 Essential Laws of Supply Chain Risk Management uses analogies and dozens of case histories to describe the risk parasite that infects all supply chains while revealing methods to neutralize that parasite. The book addresses the questions: What are the "single points of failure"? How exposed are customers, investors, other stakeholders and ultimately the organization? What is the measurable impact (i.e. brand, financial, strategic, and non-compliance)? Who establishes the "risk paradigm"? How does the organization efficiently and effectively allocate precious resources - time, people, management attention, and capital? How is success measured? This book is both technically powerful and effectively realistic, based on today's complex global economy.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction Getting to the Truth

The Laws of the Laws

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

The Risk Wake-Up Call-Planned Change, Unplanned Consequences

We Can't Change the Past, but ... Can 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 Ffighting the Parasite

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

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

Everyone's Customer

Building Your Demand-Based Strategy

Market and Client Factors to Consider

Notes

Law #5: Never Set Up Your Suppliers for Failure

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

Going Global With the Production of Risk

A New Collaborative Effort

Why is Production So Critical?

Part 2 of the Double Whammy: Labor

Notes

Law #7: The Logistics Risk Management Rule: Managing the Parts Does Not Equal Managing the Whole

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: If Supply Chain Risk Management Isn't Part of the Solution It Will then Become the Problem

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

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

Questioning Old Assumptions

Personal Laws of the Laws

Index

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