Supply Chain Risk Management: Ask This;

Supply Chain Risk Management: Ask This;

TLDR: Ask This;

1. How are climate risks and opportunities within operations and across the supply chain considered in the enterprise risk assessment and management process?

2. What impact does your ability to manage supply chain risk have on protecting brand, ensuring margins, moving cash, and generating revenue to assure long term growth?

3. What policies and processes do you have in place to identify, assess and address risks across your organization and its supply chain with respect to human rights, labor standards and modern slavery?

4. Are supply chain risks identified during the implementation of prevention and preparedness measures and were measures taken to reduce the risk of supply shortages?

5. How well have you integrated supply chain partners to speed up products to market, lower manufacturing risk and improve connected products?

6. Is a deadly serious security environment and risk averse culture supported by a portfolio of advanced cyber supply chain risk management practices?

7. Does manufacturer identify, prioritize and assess suppliers and partners of critical information systems, components and services using a supply chain risk assessment process?

8. How do you approve modelling for supply chain risk to include analysis of the wider degree of correlation, interconnected risks and macro economic trends?

9. Do managerial tools exist to provide a method to enhance current supply chain risk management over a products lifecycle using the new concept supply chain resilience?

10. Do demographic factors play a role in the choice of supply chain risk management practices by supply chain professionals?

11. How does your organization create an enterprise wide risk management framework which addresses the multitude of risks inherent in – often complex supply chains?

12. Will it integrate risk management activities across the IT supply chain and create an executive group capable of defining new policies in an era of transformed, globalized technology markets?

13. What is the difference between supply chain risk management and supply chain security management?

14. What exactly is cyber resilience in the context of supply chains, and how can it be incorporated into current supply chain risk management approaches?

15. Is there a positive relationship between cyber supply chain risk management and financial performance?

16. How do you evaluate the supply chain risk management approach of freight forwarders?

17. Are manufacturers supply chain risk management processes identified, established, assessed, managed, and agreed to by organizational stakeholders?

18. How do you reduce cold chain management risk while still managing your supply chain spends?

19. How do you see risk management playing out in your supply chain organizations?

20. How are supply chain risk assessments and risk management strategies communicated throughout the enterprise?

21. Do you have a program to ensure that your supply chain partners understand the risks the services and products present to the supply chain?

22. How important a corporate priority for the upcoming year is each of corresponding supply chain risk management actions?

23. Does your organization conduct supply chain risk assessments involving its procurement, supply chain and logistics departments?

24. How comprehensive is your supply chain risk management and how do you adjust your risk appetite?

25. Does your organization adopt data ethics risk management practices that are fit for purpose for the management of ethical risks within the data supply chain?

26. How can public health supply chain managers identify sources of risk within the supply chains and develop robust responses to that risk?

27. Who is to possess the deeper understanding of supply chain design, planning and operations necessary to manage risk in a more integrated, centralized and intricate environment?

28. How do you assess the capability of your organization to mitigate the key supply chain risks it faces right now?

29. Does your organization have its own business continuity arrangements in place to deal with supply chain disruption?

30. How do you know supply chain risk has been addressed?

31. Does the risk assessment process address redundancy requirements based on supply chain elements?

32. What steps have been taken to establish the supply chain that supports low rate production volume, and to address potential risks to scale up production volume?

33. Is an international supply chain security risk assessment a new requirement for c tpat members?

34. How sure could you be that all of your supply chain departments are currently managing compliance & risk effectively?

35. What risk mitigation strategies minimise the impact/severity of risk factors on supply chain cost?

36. How do you mitigate risk and increase supply chain transparency?

37. Is it possible to substantially reduce or even eliminate supply chain risk exposure and if so, how?

38. Do operations professionals consider supply chain risk separately from operational performance?

39. What are the similarities and differences between service and manufacturing supply chain in term of risk and risk management?

40. Does your organization have a documented procedure in place for the identification and management of labor standards risks and issues in its own business or its supply chain?

41. What can a typical supply chain simulation model include, and what factors can it consider when working on risk analysis?

42. What challenges are you currently facing related to supply chain risk and compliance management?

43. What is the current risk in your supply chain with respect to cybersecurity and what you can do about it?

44. Which strategies/tactics does your organization use to mitigate the impact of potential supply or demand chain risks, and how effective are?

45. How do you avoid introducing risk from your supply chain or development decisions?

46. Does your organization face real reputational or actual risks in the supply chain that need to be covered up front?

47. What do participants perceive as the common and effective supply chain risk mitigation methods?

48. Are climate change, environmental and sustainability risks factored into the supply chain management processes along with human rights and ethics?

Organized by Key Themes: SUPPLIER, SUPPLY, MANAGEMENT, SECURITY, SOURCING, RISK, DEVELOPMENT, PRODUCT, QUALITY, VENDOR:

SUPPLIER:

How real are the dangers to your organizations supply chain and supply chain management systems?

Make sure the team is responsible for the Commodity strategy deployment into the Business, and the creation of Business procurement strategy covering the Business requirements in terms of technology, footprint, in/outsourcing, cost roadmaps, supplier Risk Management and supplier consolidation and needed supply base adherence.?

How do you terminate your supply contract?

Identify enterprise supplier risk and systemic performance issues utilizing efficient root-cause analysis, and ensure that corrective solutions are identified and implemented by the Business Segment Supply Chain organizations with effective action closure plans.?

How do you avoid introducing risk from your supply chain or development decisions?

Manage all aspects of categories including strategy development and execution, spend analysis and cost management, capacity management and expansion, risk management, supplier relationship management, supplier performance management and continuous improvement, negotiation and contracting supply agreements.?

Does your organization have a formalized process in place to identify potential sustainability risks in the supply chain?

Identify and implement supplier risk management process and tools to support corporate objectives and your organizations need for a resilient and high performance supply base.?

How do you reduce risk from lower tier suppliers?

Be confident that your design ensures full supply chain continuity via supplier capacity management and risk mitigation strategies through to the base materials.?

Will your organization support the supplier in its efforts to prevent violations of the code of conduct, and if so, by what means?

Establish clear performance expectations and direction for the team to ensure alignment with supplier risk management and the business activities.?

How do you communicate your policy/requirements to suppliers?

Apply the reporting framework for supplier performance in areas that include quality, capacity, systems and responsiveness partner with business owners to develop supplier scorecards and dashboards that present relevant data tailored to the audience, define and hold strategic suppliers to higher performance standards and drive continuous improvements, collect/consolidate/communicate detailed reports and key supplier data to stakeholders on supplier performance, risk and relationships.?

What conditions need to be met if your organization wants to achieve proper cooperation with its suppliers?

Assess and improve processes for Business Segment supplier risk management throughout the program life cycle to achieve full compliance with all security and compliance requirements.?

What supply chain/procurement risks or concerns are most likely to negatively impact your organization?

Be sure your personnel coaches and advises the sourcing team on advanced category management, supplier performance management, and project management practices and strategies in order to improve overall supply management capability.?

What can supply and suppliers do to help your organization increase revenues or decrease costs?

Ensure your design contributes to the development and execution of the risk management plan that addresses key risks in category management, contract management, services, supplier management and procurement processes.?

SUPPLY:

How do you see business developing over the medium to long term?

Ensure your staff leads supply chain management and procurement activities for new product launches and collaborate with new product/project teams to develop sourcing strategies and implement the same along with developing sourcing risk plans.?

What is your organization doing to develop continuous improvement strategies addressing climate change and sustainability in its supply chain practices?

Work closely with DM business teams to understand and assess risk to reliability of supply, product quality or cost and work with Supply Chain counterparts to proactively develop solutions.?

How do you create a unique advantage and avoid leveling the playing field?

Establish that your workforce is understanding the scope of supply and (internal) customer contract agreements, performing risk analysis and preparing for negotiations with suppliers and identifying supply chain risks and monitoring the supply chain during project execution to avoid potential issues/risks.?

How do you mitigate product safety risks proactively?

Verify that your process is responsible for identifying risks to your supply chain, measure risk and impact and communicating proactively to business leadership for risk mitigation.?

Do you regularly meet with senior management and critically review management and risk information?

Verify that your team works with Regional Supply Chain Leaders in assess risk assessments of import and export compliance programs to ensure that all sites follow established policies and procedures and meet all legal requirements.?

Do agreements with suppliers include requirements to address the information security risks associated with the information and communications technology services and products supply chain?

Analyze and assess logistics and supply chain policies and procedures against current performance metrics and make recommendations on policy and/or process improvements to include areas such as inventory, procurement, risk management, technical data, and lifecycle assessments.?

How do you prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from negative events throughout the supply chain?

Safeguard that your process manages Supply Chain Management (SCM) organization resources responsible for the Market Sector 3rd party spend (Addressable Spend) and executing all services and material procurement.?

Are you working with your direct suppliers to support and improve the capacity to supply sustainable materials?

Make headway so that your design identifies and have to be involved in process improvement projects which improve (internal) customer service levels, improve product flows, minimize supply chain costs and improve asset management.?

What risks will be transferred to the supplier and what risks will sit with your organization – is risk allocation optimal?

Support the supply chain risk evaluation process with technical analyses of market constraints and dynamics as well as supplier and material availability alternatives.?

Have you tried to identify any stakeholders who might support a risk mitigation plan for your red flagged supply, or be affected by it?

Make sure your process projects may range from detailed advisory for improving a single supply chain process, such as S and OP, to broad Operations Strategy projects focused on new operating models in support of digital transformation, new business strategies or new business models.?

MANAGEMENT:

How do you align with your stakeholders to deliver value into your supply chain?

Interface to R and D scientists and R and D functional Business Unit management (POC, Business Development) to provide technology strategy and collaborative input for procurement positioning, supplier selection, risk management, supply agreement and approach decisions, strategic supplier consolidation, and deliver interface and network back into strategic procurement organization for long term business benefit.?

What policies and processes do you have in place to identify, assess and address risks across your organization and its supply chain with respect to human rights, labor standards and modern slavery?

Be confident that your strategy provides technical and analytical guidance to project team while offering data analysis, providing briefings and papers for selected audiences, and conduct research in support of supply chain risk management initiatives.?

Do you have a plan to address and mitigate the risks that vendor and partner firmware pose to your organization?

Understand business impacts and align with stakeholders to effectively assess risk levels, manage supply continuity, develop contingency plans and establish risk management strategies to mitigate risk.?

What measures has your organization taken to make customer demand responsive to changes in available supply?

Ensure you participate in the commercial relationships, strategic deals, cost negotiations, help ensure continuity of supply and risk management to drive operational and cost efficiencies through process or design change.?

How do you identify who is lurking in your supply chain?

Interface so that your group is responsible for the overall maintenance and quality of Supplier Management programs and services; accountable to ensure that appropriate service levels, key performance indicators and risk assessments are established, measured, monitored, and reported.?

Is there sufficient transparency into how the cloud provider operates its services – including service management practices, hiring policies, supply chain, data center facilities?

Establish that your team is identifying Critical Program Information (CPI) to include Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) and Criticality reviews.?

How do you assess the capability of your organization to mitigate the key supply chain risks it faces right now?

Work collaboratively with overarching organization departments, and industry in developing overarching supply chain risk management strategies and associated policies and processes.?

How do you build flexibility and risk reduction into the supply chain?

Work with supply chain with inventory, time, and risk management to identify suppliers that can build at the highest quality at the lowest price.?

Are climate change, environmental and sustainability risks factored into the supply chain management processes along with human rights and ethics?

Support quality risk management activities both internal development program and at the contract manufacturers organization and manage mitigation plans with the CMO and internal partners.?

How do you identify the risk in supply networks?

Work with business partners and risk management to ensure compliance with policies and programs in alignment with the overall procurement strategy.?

SECURITY:

Is that trust protected by rigorous checks in your supply chain, or is your reputation at stake?

Confirm that your group liaises with supply chain and vendor risk management process stakeholders to conduct security assessments of existing and prospective vendors, especially those with which the organization shares sensitive data, as well as regulated or other protected data.?

What are the top vulnerabilities that your supply chain is exposed to and how do you protect continuity of supply on a sustained basis?

Certify your workforce is responsible for Supply Chain Cybersecurity Compliance with overarching organization requirements, as well as Supply Chain Cyber Risk Management (SCRM).?

How do you minimize likelihood of threat?

Collaborate directly with organization (internal) customers to create policy, process, and implement appropriate tools for architecting, modeling, and designing a Supply Chain Risk Management infrastructure to continuously assess, mitigate, and minimize risk to the systems security and to the overall mission.?

Are current cybersecurity reporting methods, frequency, and metrics effective in driving cybersecurity performance?

Operationalize various Information Security governance functions, such as security risk management, compliance management, policy management, third party risk management (IT Cloud Service Providers and Supply Chain Risk), software security, and metrics and reporting.?

How can organizations start to mitigate the potential disruption on supply chains due to climate change risk?

Develop experience working in Cybersecurity engagements with one or more multiple domains including (Cloud, Workforce Management, Risk Management, Industrial Control Systems, Asset Management, Configuration Management Data Loss Prevention, Supply Chain Management, and Change Management).?

How robust is the approach to achieve comprehensive and effective risk management of information throughout your organization and its delivery and supply partners?

Make sure your operation creates a risk based process for the assessment and mitigation of any information security risk in the ecosystem consisting of supply chain partners, vendors, consumers, and any other third parties.?

Is your business particularly vulnerable to the possibility of the power supply being interrupted?

Be a part of the system security life cycle, provides program oversight and leadership for the evaluation of the effectiveness of procurement function in addressing information security requirements and supply chain risks through procurement activities and recommends improvements.?

How do you plan to design and operate a biomass feedstock supply system to meet the annual volumetric and quality demands for a commercial bioenergy facility?

Establish that your staff manages threat, vulnerability, and security and privacy risk (including supply chain risk) information for organizational systems and the environments in which the systems operate.?

Have you mapped your supply base to determine which suppliers represent the highest level of sustainability risks and opportunities?

Develop experience performing supply chain risk assessments to identify and articulate cyber and physical security risks at suppliers.?

What changes to the supply system do you recommend for improving supply support at the last tactical mile?

Be sure your staff is evaluating the effectiveness of procurement function in addressing information security requirements and supply chain risks through procurement activities and recommend improvements.?

SOURCING:

Why, after all, would the majority of the worlds leading business invest in improving the sustainability performance of the supply chains?

Interface so that your company researches purchasing trends, threats/risks to the supply chain, and develops sourcing and procurement strategies to mitigate risk to the supply chain and ensure business continuity.?

How do you optimize a dynamic, big data environment?

Be certain that your workforce develop sourcing plans with Business Unit(s) to support New Business/Product Development, deliver cost reductions, minimize supply risk and optimize working capital needs.?

How can a closed loop supply chain network be designed and what is the impact on environmental performance and costs?

Guarantee your company is sourcing and Procurement Functional Maturity, Supplier Risk Management, Supply Base Management, Supplier Quality and Cost Management, Organizations Design for Procurement and Metrics.?

Have you established a reliable procedure of having a third party auditor familiar with evaluating forced labor risks conduct periodic, unannounced audits of your supply chain for forced labor?

Own strategic supplier relationships and influencing strategy, negotiations and contracting, spends management, modeling and cost reduction roadmap execution, supplier financial health, developing and implementing critical material sourcing strategies, supply chain, and sub-supply chain risk reduction strategies.?

Are your trade and transportation processes aligned to cope with the dynamic demands of the modern supply chain?

Oversee that your organization conducts market and competitive conditions by category Leads engagement with business partners to influence business strategy leveraging supply market insights and align sourcing strategies.?

How is supplier and risk management constructed in a highly regulated and enforced environment?

Assure your team is sourcing specialization is responsible for driving the sourcing procurement of goods and services in alignment with business leadership, along with contracting and supplier relationship management.?

Is the greatest business value created by looking for a better way to track qualified suppliers or should your organization track third party material suppliers?

Be confident that your workforce has involvement with contract review and negotiations, all phases of strategic sourcing and category strategies, supplier relationship management and project management.?

How do supply managers proactively identify, assess and mitigate supplier financial and operational risks?

Interface so that your process is building and manage internal business relationships by providing guidance and expertise on sourcing best practices, including supplier selection, industry insights, negotiation strategies, and contracting.?

Which extant theory applicable to buyer supplier relationships captures the phenomenon of strategic supply risk best and should thus serve as basis for developing a strategic supply risk theory?

Collect and analyze market and supplier data, develop sourcing options for review and concurrence by the applicable business unit, and implement approved strategies timely to capture savings and value to the business.?

How do you effectively estimate occurrence probabilities to support decision making under uncertainty in supply chain risk management?

Make sure the Sourcing specialization leads Supplier Relationship Management program in support of the Sourcing Department goals.?

RISK:

How should the role of the supply chain organization, and its leadership, evolve going forward?

Support third party risk management and supply chain management life cycle activities and identify new risks as business requirements evolve.?

Is your supply of raw material at risk because of geographic issues as multiple suppliers located in one particular geographical area?

Work with core supply chain management teams on sourcing strategies including supplier selection, risk analysis and capacity management.?

How do you improve the efficiency of your supply chain without exposing ourselves to excessive risk?

Assure your group works with business partners to identify and prioritize an annual project pipeline that deliver value for the business, including risk mitigation, supply continuity, cost optimization, innovation, ensuring quality supply of materials, and compliance.?

How do you ensure the supply management procedures and policies reflect the plan objectives?

Incorporate supply chain sustainability risk into your enterprise risk management framework and ensure your supplier onboarding processes reflect current strategy.?

How do you stay one step ahead of the risks facing your supply chain?

Make sure the Supply Chain Risk Manager reports to the Procurement organization and is responsible for developing and deploying your risk strategy and framework, for effectively assessing and managing third party risk exposures.?

What challenges do other organizations face when managing risk from suppliers and the wider supply chain?

Engage with suppliers to understand the risk management strategy, approach to SC visibility, and Business Continuity Planning (Supply Chain Risk Management Supplier Reviews).?

Is your organization comfortable with the level of risk associated with reducing the supply base?

Collaborate with Supply Chain and TPRM teams to drive Supply Chain Risk Management product in the context of Supply Chain and Risk Management product portfolio.?

What prevents smaller vendors from establishing highly effective testing and analysis programs?

Develop and lead governance strategy to manage supply chain risk management concerns by establishing requisite policies, standards, and procedures.?

What opportunities exist to prevent the supplier from manipulating data to mislead the public on its supply chain management?

Work with risk management colleagues in other internal departments to develop and deploy a common risk management strategy and framework for effectively assessing and managing supply chain risk.?

How do you assess your supply chain risk?

Oversee deployment and implementation of 3rd party tools and services that monitor supply chain risk and assess compliance to organization and (internal) customer requirements.?

DEVELOPMENT:

Do you evaluate products during development for supply risk, cost, quality, and environmental compliance?

Develop and implement sourcing strategies related to Supplier development, supply chain risk abatement, cost out and new product development.?

What are the supply chain directors responsibilities and is the influence in corporate strategy?

Make headway so that your strategy interacts with a diverse team of business users, process owners, and development teams to ensure effective application use while enhancing user experience, productivity and efficiency, mitigating risks, and resolving issues.?

What impact does your ability to manage supply chain risk have on protecting brand, ensuring margins, moving cash, and generating revenue to assure long term growth?

Drive development of business requirements with line of business stakeholders and facilitate cross-functional discussions to optimize value and minimize risk in executed agreements while ensuring operational compliance with the contract terms.?

What steps have been taken to establish the supply chain that supports low rate production volume, and to address potential risks to scale up production volume?

Check that your group uses incremental development and other strategies to develop an agile program in order to support early risk mitigation.?

How do you ensure notifications contain specific and useful information?

Make sure your workforce directs the development and maintenance of plans, practices and assignments to identify, quantify and contain the occurrence and potential impact of risks and risk events on the execution of a program and its likelihood of success.?

How do you implement sustainable supply chain innovations?

Invest in the development of scope of work and negotiation of vendor contracts in support of building maintenance, supply requirements, and capital improvement projects.?

How can sponsors shape a project, its supply chain, and its contractual structure so that equity and debt markets will make financing available?

Partner with site leadership in the development and formulation of long and short range planning, policies, programs and objectives related to supply chain activities.?

How are supply chain risk assessments and risk management strategies communicated throughout the enterprise?

Communicate PKI related security risks with business leaders, product and development engineers, and internal security assessment teams.?

Which risks should be considered in the field of outsourcing decisions in the supply chain process?

Identify supply risks to the demand plan through the development of best practice inventory and forecasting metrics and scorecards.?

Does your organization conduct supply chain risk assessments involving its procurement, supply chain and logistics departments?

Make sure your company manages the development and implementation process of projects involving departmental or cross functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing projects.?

PRODUCT:

How do mediated and non mediated power effect electronic supply chain management system adoption?

Safeguard that your team investigations, Brand Protection, Business Risk analytics/reporting, Ecommerce Enforcement, Insider Threat, Physical Security, Product Integrity, Supply Chain Security and Technical Security Countermeasures.?

What options could be supported to enhance supply chain performance and manage credit risks more effectively?

Manage bid and proposal efforts across each integrated Product Team to identify material costs, risk and opportunities in the supply base and planning to support execution of bid.?

How do winning companies plan for growth while mitigating risk and staying ahead of competitors?

Drive Sourcing and Supply Chain early engagement in new product development programs to support launch schedule, cost, and quality objectives, while mitigating risk.?

What types of cost and risk factors are manifested in the relationship between buyers and sellers?

Be certain that your process ensures that the supply chain organization uses the most appropriate tools and analytics to optimize product flow and fulfillment systems.?

Are all staff involved in the due diligence program involved; is the training regularly updated as your due diligence systems evolve and mature?

Ensure your organization is involved in a program management, product management, risk management, analytics or business intelligence role.?

How best can risks be identified, understood and mitigated within the framework of supply chain risk management?

Partner with Supply Chain and Finance teams to understand industry, product, and business related trends, articulate risks and implement approved solutions.?

How do you minimize your supplier risks while still optimizing your spend?

Make sure your workforce is accountable for working closely with (internal) customer facing teams, operation teams, and I and D and supplier engineering teams to ensure that the supplier strategy is in line with product and (internal) customer needs.?

Does your organization have an Agile and flexible supply chain which enables it to respond to sudden market changes?

Make sure the Product Owner is responsible for driving the ongoing project management of improving their product line and ensuring the overall success of the program, which entails managing performance, efficiency, sustainability, workflow, inventory forecasting, tracking progress towards return on investment, capturing and mitigating risks to enable the program to scale quickly.?

Do consumers have the right to expect products, services and other finished goods you purchase from your retailers to be safe?

Work with internal (internal) customers to ensure specifications are appropriate for the services or products required Identify opportunities to reduce cost, improve efficiency and manage risk through targeted negotiations Issue purchase orders.?

What impact does your ability to manage supply chain risk have on protecting brand, ensuring margins, moving cash, and generating revenue to assure long term growth?

Certify your process supports Trade Account Directors through business analysis in ensuring product distribution and contractual performance of the 3PL are optimal.?

QUALITY:

Are there any important regulatory issues to consider with respect to applying supply chain safety initiatives – what powers do regulators need to improve safety?

Check that your staff, the responsibilities which need to be in place include supplier deviation management, risk identification and reduction, quality and supply chain improvements, and relationship management with internal and external stakeholders.?

Is the industry prepared to face fluctuating supply issues that may be presented in the next several years?

Align strategies with corporate objectives around critical components, quality improvement, cash flow improvement, cost management, inventory reduction, and supply chain risk mitigation.?

What strategies and tactics has your organization adopted to mitigate the impact of potential supply or demand chain risks?

Perform risk assessment activities to identify product quality or compliance risks and lead efforts to mitigate those risks.?

How is the cost of supplying small consumers considered in the previous paragraph from profitable parts of operations classified?

Work with the Business Lines, Product Engineering, Marketing, Quality and Manufacturing teams to understand product requirements to create technology roadmaps and provide cost effective, reliable and manufacturable package solutions.?

Does manufacturer identify, prioritize and assess suppliers and partners of critical information systems, components and services using a supply chain risk assessment process?

Be sure your organization is supporting effective implementation of supply chain quality (supplier evaluation, selection, documentation, acceptance and inspection of technical requirements).?

Are manufacturers becoming less risk averse in the evaluation and adoption of transformative technologies?

Oversee that your staff is responsible for quality aspects related to tech-transfer, scale-up and process analytical method validation as it relates to unit operations for the manufacture of product, including lifecycle management and Post-Marketing Commitments.?

How do you improve organization performance using big data analytics capability and business strategy alignment?

Make sure the Production Quality Engineer is responsible for identifying, documenting, assessing, correcting and preventing quality issues using risk analysis and root cause analysis tools.?

What are the minimum controls your organization requires to determine if the supply is at risk and what back up arrangements could be required to ensure continuity of service?

Lead audit preparation activities including gathering of and review of auditee relevant quality and performance metrics to determine risk based audit scope.?

How do you identify and respond to risks in your manufacturing process and supply chain?

Assure your company is responsible for collaborating cross functionally with Manufacturing Technical Operations, Commercial Operations, Finance, Quality Assurance, and Corporate Compliance to ensure planned and predictable distribution services are provided to internal partners, external partners and external (internal) customers of Tarsus.?

What is the total cost of outsourcing, including the impact on inventory, working capital and cash flow?

Deliver a seamless transition of viable new technologies into the product development process managing risks while meeting quality, schedule, and cost goals.?

VENDOR:

How do you expect social media to inform your organizations supply chain management practices in the future?

Check that your group directs and oversees the Vendor Management risk assessment routines including the review of vendor due diligence documents for those suppliers flagged with compliance risk and coordination with Supply Chain Management.?

How might delays, cost overruns, supply delays or other contingencies impact the integrity of the design?

Create commodity or vendor specific sourcing strategies to optimize the supply base, diversity spending and total cost of ownership.?

How do you improve the efficiency of your supply chain without exposing ourselves to excessive risk?

Ensure your team creates and innovates across brands, processes and people to grow business results and improve Vendor engagement and satisfaction.?

How do you follow your supplier operational risks and capability?

Lead supplier engagement processes including conducting vendor due diligence, RFP, negotiations, and vendor management across a variety of categories.?

How differently does your organization manage the relationships with your physical goods and service suppliers?

Manage and facilitate all facets of the procurement activities for category including vendor evaluations, site audits and continuous improvement process for all suppliers.?

Is there public evidence of an auditing process, ideally conducted by a third party, to measure compliance against supply chain standards?

Secure that your process is monitoring and responding to inquiries received by stakeholders and vendors in teams inbox.?

How do you leverage vendor relationships to help manage risk?

Make headway so that your workforce leads team coordination of special shipments (airfreight and direct shipments) with vendors and internal departments.?

How do you determine risk in your supply chain?

Be certain that your company is responsible for teams reconciliation of purchase orders with vendor receipts and invoices along with critical month end closing processes.?

How do you manage the environmental performance of your own suppliers?

Track and communicate supplier delivery schedules with internal partners, contractors and vendors, escalating issues and risks, with priority.?

Which functions/departments of your organization are involved in the supply chain mapping process?

Make sure your staff is involved in Threat Model development for complex system including blockchain and multiple vendors/(internal) client integration.