If you are not already aware of the increased risks to effective, efficient and proactive Supply Chain Management in your organization, you need to read this report by Sundar Kamakshisundaram, a Senior Marketing Manager for Ariba, a global provider of supply risk management.

Our current economic conditions put even more emphasis on the “where and when” questions of supply chain disruption for your organization – it is no longer safe to assume that your organization needs to only ask the question of “if” when planning a defensive supply chain management strategy.

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As reported by the Associated Press today, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced its decision to raise the pandemic warning level for the swine flu from phase 5 to 6.

If your organization has not yet reacted to this global flu pandemic status by reviewing and testing its current emergency response plans, its business continuity plans, its crisis management plans, its disaster recovery plans, or its pandemic preparedness plans — this recent action by WHO should be a reminder that some action relevant to each of your organizations is now reasonably and responsibily required.

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Joan Goodchild, Senior Editor, of CSO Magazine, writes about the recent results of a new survey research report by AT&T.  In this report, it states that nearly a third of reporting companies have had to put their business continuity plans into action — with the most common scenarios still being extreme weather and power outages. 

When compared to earlier surveys, this report now indicates a strong trend for companies to put their attention not only to their own business continuity plans, but also to those of their partners and key suppliers.

With more companies allowing their employees to access social networking sites, a growing concern is now focused on the potential impact to network security — however, hacking continues to remain the biggest security risk to organizations according to the findings in this report.

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