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Home » Number of Businesses Reporting Million-dollar Supply Chain Disruptions Rises

Number of Businesses Reporting Million-dollar Supply Chain Disruptions Rises

November 6, 2014
Business Continuity Institute

Organisations cannot simply bury their heads in the sand and pretend an incident will never happen to them. The survey showed that 76 percent of respondents had experienced at least one supply chain disruption during the previous 12 months, yet a quarter of respondents (28 percent) still had no business continuity (BC) arrangements in place to deal with such an event.

Supported by global insurer Zurich, the report concludes that supply chain disruptions are costly and may cause significant damage to an organisation’s reputation. While the survey results indicate a growing awareness of BC and its role in ensuring supply chain resilience, many organisations have yet to improve on their reporting and BC arrangements. While budgets for business continuity and ensuring supply chain resilience are often slashed in favour of other priorities, this study demonstrates why this often might not be a wise course of action. With the growing cost of disruption worldwide and the potential reputational damage caused as a result of failing to have appropriate transparency in the supply chain, investments in this area are essential and can spell the difference when disaster strikes.

Further findings from the report include:

• 78.6 percent of respondents do not have full visibility of their supply chains. Only 26.5 percent of organisations coordinate and report supply chain disruption enterprise-wide. Some 44.4 percent of disruptions originate below the Tier 1 supplier and 13 percent of organisations do not analyse their supply chains to identify the source of the disruption.

• The primary sources of disruption to supply chains in the last 12 months were unplanned IT and telecommunications outage (52.9 percent), adverse weather (51.6 percent) and outsourcer service failure (35.8 percent).

• The loss of productivity (58.5 percent) remains as the top consequence of supply chain disruptions for the sixth year running. Increased cost of working (47.5 percent) and loss of revenue (44.7 percent) are also more commonly reported this year and round out the top three.

• Respondents reporting low top management commitment to this issue have risen from 21.1 percent to 28.6 percent. This is a worrying finding as low commitment is likely to coincide with limited investment in this key performance area.

• The percentage of firms having BC arrangements in place against supply chain disruption has risen from 57.7 percent to 72.0 percent. However, segmenting the data reveals that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are less likely to have BC arrangements (63.9 percent) than large businesses (76.2 percent).

Lyndon Bird, technical director at the BCI, commented: “Should we be alarmed by some of the figures revealed in this survey? Perhaps so. Should we be surprised by them? Probably not. As long as organisations are failing to put business continuity mechanisms in place, and as long as top management is failing to give the issue the level of commitment it requires, supply chain disruptions will continue to occur and they will continue to cost the organisation dearly. In our globally connected world, these supply chains are becoming ever more complex and more action is needed to make sure that an incident in one organisation doesn’t become a crisis for another.”

Source: Business Continuity Institute

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