{"id":13649,"date":"2020-03-20T13:36:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/?p=13649"},"modified":"2020-03-20T13:36:41","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T00:36:41","slug":"covid-19-the-supply-chain-things-to-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/2020\/03\/20\/covid-19-the-supply-chain-things-to-consider\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: The supply chain &#8211; Things to consider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Developing a cogent supply chain response to the coronavirus outbreak is extremely challenging, given the scale of crisis and the rate at which its evolving. Here are a few other things you should consider sooner rather than later:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Assess critical supply components and identify origin of supply. Is there a secondary source?<br \/>\n\u2022 Know your suppliers, and if possible, map upstream suppliers, incase immediate suppliers are affected.<br \/>\n\u2022 Run outage scenarios to assess the possibility of unforeseen impacts. Expect the unexpected, especially when core suppliers are in the frontline of disruptions. Chinas influence is so wide-ranging that there will almost inevitably be unexpected consequences.<br \/>\n\u2022 Talk to suppliers about possible delays in supply.<br \/>\n\u2022 Investigate options for alternative supply, or alternative products that can be used to do the same job.<br \/>\n\u2022 Assess customers and whether shortages in supply will affect their businesses, and in turn yours, and the impact this may have. Communication is key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developing a cogent supply chain response to the coronavirus outbreak is extremely challenging, given the scale of crisis and the rate at which its evolving. Here are a few other things you should consider sooner rather than later: \u2022 Assess critical supply components and identify origin of supply. Is there a secondary source? \u2022 Know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nzsda.org.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}