Title: Supply chain disruption – how to manage and avoid breakdowns | riskmethods
Headings: Supply chain disruption – how to manage and avoid breakdowns
Supply chain disruption – how to manage and avoid breakdowns
1. What is supply chain disruption?
What is supply chain disruption management?
What is supply chain disruption risk?
2. Six causes of supply chain disruption
Supply chains are commonly vulnerable to these six risk categories:
3. Supply chain disruption examples
4. What is the impact of supply chain disruption?
5. Three ways to manage disruption in your supply chain
#1 Be aware of supply chain disruption risk and have proactive contingency plans
#2 Develop supply chain disruption strategies
#3 Avoid supply chain disruption in the first place
6. Why disruption can make your supply chain stronger

Content: Within individual enterprises, the cost of supply chain disruption includes loss of revenue, when products do not reach customers schedule. However, interruption of supply chains and deliveries leads to a range of other costs. For example, when parts are unavailable, productivity is lost as workers sit idle. At the same time, the search for and onboarding alternative suppliers is costly. Further effects of supply chain disruption include damaged reputation, which nudges customers to turn to the competition. 5. Three ways to manage disruption in your supply chain
In most cases, the faster you react to events, the better you can manage disruptive supply chain risks. This is one reason why riskmethods artificial intelligence-based software warns you of disruptive events in real time - often before they hit your enterprise. When you monitor risks including suppliers and supply paths, weather forecasts, financial indicators and trade union activity, you learn of threats to your system before calamity strikes. And keeping a close eye on shifting consumer sentiment might just catapult you ahead of your competition should demand spike.