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

摘要

Over the past decade, organizations have faced relentless customer demand for better value at less cost, individual customization, greater choice, faster delivery, higher quality, and exceptional service, all within the context of increased environmental and social consciousness. The organization's weapon of choice to address this increasingly unpredictable demand has been the supply chain; however, as the supply chain footprint changed (eg, outsourcing, off-shoring and customer/vendor empowerment), so did the organization's exposure to uncertainty. Organizations were taken by surprise because this exposure was unanticipated, complex, and beyond their ability to manage. As customers become more demanding and as change occurs at an even greater pace, supply chain risk continues to propagate like a parasite.