Minimising Risk Using Supply Chain Management
A supply chain is a system which needs a certain amount of control
and management. Like any other system, it is prone to outside
disturbance that can cause numerous effects to its system. One example
of disturbance in the supply chain is the Forrester effect. Forrester
effect is the distortion caused by demands from the retailer that causes
fluctuation of inventory from the distributors, warehouses up to the
factory. Other such distortion that can bring impact to the supply chain
is the failure of any parties to deliver its good to other partners in a
specific time period that causes major disruption to the overall supply
chain process.
In mitigating this disruption, Supply Chain
Management allows certain risk to be shared or delegated among its
partners. Activities that carry the highest risk can be done by either
the buyer itself or outsource to several reliable partners. The
activities that hold the lowest risk can be outsource to new partners as
to gauge the supplier's performance before migrating them into a higher
level. The strategy of managing this risk should be handled effectively
by all partners in the supply chain. Identifying capability of internal
and also external processes must be done with thorough risk analysis
and mitigation strategy.
As an example of risk allocation at work
was the Toyota case that occurred on 3rd February 1997. One of Toyota's
suppliers, Aisin Seki at that time suffered a devastating fire that
caused its production to end abruptly. Aisin Seki is the only sole
supplier of Brake Master Cylinder to Toyota in Japan. The fire in Aisin
Seki causes the imminent collapse of Toyota Supply Chain. Following the
incident, around 20 other Toyota suppliers immediately went on a
collaborative mode to compensate the missing components. By 7th February
1997, Toyota managed to start back its assembly line and production
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