Risk Analysis & Contingency Planning for Supply Chains

An essential element of a supply chain in a business is to provide product and services to the business and its customers. Sometimes events happen that cause an interruption to normal service levels. Often events cause concern within the business but the end customer may not even notice. However, if the event is significant and the supply chain cannot provide product over a period of time longer than the inventory then in some cases the business will fail. Saturn Projects understand the need to balance the risk to the business of different types of events impacting the supply chain verses the cost of providing a contingency. A contingency can take many forms including an alternate process, a back-up system, an secondary supplier, an alternate product or even a capital fund. Saturn Projects can help your supply chain understand how to balance the event risk and the contingency cost through:

• Supply chain organisational, and process mapping.

• Supply chain operational documentation audits.

• Supply chain infrastructure and IT reviews.

• Supply chain risk assessments.

• Contingency planning.

• Contingency scenario trialling.

• Fail-over testing.

• Risk likelihood verses impact assessments.

• Contingency out-source options, and vendor selections.

• Contingency in-source options.

• Contingency out-source contract reviews and analysis.

• Worst case planning.

• Best case planning.

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