CHAPTER 13

Business Continuity and Supply Chain Security

Business interruptions can take many forms: natural disasters, such as the earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Fukushima, Japan; labor stoppages similar to the occurrences on U.S. West Coast docks, a health crisis where segments of a population are required to be quarantined, or social unrest and wars.

These types of events are growing in numbers as well as increasing in severity. In an ideal world, incident response is the execution of a well-thought-out, focused, and rehearsed plan that engages the entire team that will manage the future crisis.

Resiliency is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, a toughness. It is also the ability of an object to spring back into shape, or ...

Get Optimizing the Supply Chain now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.