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Follow on Google News | Supply Chain Risk Management: Current Industry Practices, Key Challenges and RequirementsBy: SGS S.A SGS’s global industry survey on "Supply Chain Risk Management: How vulnerable is your supply chain", completed by industries in 48 different countries, explored current supply chain management practices. It highlighted that, independent of the approach to be followed, gathering, processing, handling and communicating the right information is a prerequisite to effective supply chain risk management and a booster of supply chain resilience. Supply chain resilience is defined as the ability of a global supply chain to reorganise and achieve continuous delivery of its core functions, despite the impact of external and/or internal pressures. Factors that can have a significant impact on supply chain resilience include energy price increases, environmental changes and major pandemics, amongst others. According to the results of our survey, product tampering and fraud was identified as the number one threat to supply chain resilience (55.1%) followed by supplier financial stability (40.9%), political and social unrest (37.3%) as well as sustainability (36.9%). Identifying risks and prioritising those according to potential impact, is a key approach towards improving supply chain resilience. The results of our survey indicated that conducting risk audits of key suppliers (68.3%) as well as creating a supplier risk register (42%) are industry’s top resilience improvement practices. In a recently published industry consultation report (Campden BRI, 2015), the need for the development and implementation of the appropriate systems to assure supply chain integrity, and therefore supply chain resilience, throughout manufacturing, distribution and sale was listed amongst the key industry priorities. These would involve analytical, horizon scanning and intelligence gathering tools able to identify, assess and mitigate risks. Read full version: http://www.sgs.com/ For more information, please contact: Dr Evangelia Komitopoulou Global Technical Manager – Food SGS United Kingdom Ltd Camberley, United Kingdom t: +44 (0) 7824 08 9985 End
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