Manufacturing and business continuity

23 May 2011

A business continuity plan can keep a company in business through times of crisis, but very few organisations have one ready to deploy when a disaster hits. Roberto Priolo investigates.

Extract:

"Compared to other types of businesses, manufacturers often face greater risks, including supply chain disruption, health and safety problems and loss of key equipment, among others. According to Supply Chain Resilience 2010, a survey by Zurich, manufacturing counts adverse weather and product quality issues as the major causes of supply chain disruption, which impacts the sector so heavily."

Charlotte Smith, a consultant at business continuity specialist Teed adds: "Any process that is critical needs to be understood and contingencies to be thought through, pre-incident, in order to ensure that the loss can be managed effectively and is not going to impact on customers post-incident."

Click on the link to read The Manufacturer article in full "When things go south"