Start expecting the unexpected: supply chain security means being ready for anything.(Security/Wireless)

Manufacturing Business Technology, June, 2005 by Bartels, Nancy

In Genesis, Chapter 6, God told Noah, "Make yourself an ark." Lucky Noah. He was warned. Best not to count on the same divine favor to keep your supply chain humming when a random act of God--fire, flood, earthquake, raw material shortage--disrupts it. And make no mistake. At some point--probably sooner rather than later--your supply chain will be hit.

"Risk is normal," says Peter Regen, a VP with consulting services and systems integration company Unisys. "Things we would ordinarily consider extraordinary events happen all the time. I was at a seminar recently where one of the presenters showed a three-year calendar of events affecting the supply chain of a large, multinational corporation. There were a dozen events--SARS [severe acute respiratory...

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