Managing Automation - March 2009 - (Page 21) DEEPDIVE SupplyChains–ReaderPoll Assessment SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS POSE THE GREATEST RISK Q: How would you assess your company’s supply chain risk today compared with one year ago? Supply disruptions: Materials costs: Substantial risk: 32.7% Fairly significant risk: 38.0% Minor risk: 18.0% Minor risk: 16.3% Fairly significant risk: 51.0% Q: Looking at risk factors, how significant are the following to your company? Somewhat more risk: 36.0% About the same as last year: 30.0% Substantially more risk: Substantial risk: 44.0% 18.0% Substantially less risk: 6.0% Somewhat less risk: Material quality: Substantial risk: 32.7% Fairly significant risk: 40.8% Inventory visibility: Substantial risk: 16.3% Fairly significant risk: 61.2% 6.0% Don’t know: 4.0% Minor risk: 16.3% Minor risk: 22.4% Strategy A MAJORITY OF MANUFACTURERS TAKE AN ENTERPRISE APPROACH TO RISK RESPONSE, WITH MODERATE RESULTS Q: Which statement most closely resembles your company’s response to dealing with increasing supply chain risk? The company has developed a formal, enterprise-wide process for understanding and mitigating supply chain risk: IT IS CRITICAL, BUT DOESN’T NEGATE PEOPLE AND PROCESS ISSUES Q: What role will information technology play in your company’s efforts to mitigate supply chain risk? Q: Over the past 12 months, to what extent has your company successfully mitigated supply chain risk? 20.0% The company is still in the process of formulating an enterprise risk strategy: Substantial mitigation has occurred: 10.0% Don’t know: 4.0% IT will play a pivotal role: 20.0% IT will play a somewhat important role: 40.0% 30.0% Each business unit is pursuing its own strategy: 28.0% There is no coordinated response: No mitigation has occurred: 14.0% Some mitigation has occurred: 70.2% Don’t know: 6.0% People and process issues are more important than IT: 26.0% IT’s role is insignificant: 8.0% 18.0% Don’t know: 4.0% Source: Managing Automation reader poll Note: Percentages may have been rounded and may not equal 100%. 21 March 2009
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