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Survey: Manufacturing Bosses Stepping Up Supply Chain Resilience as Pandemic Response

DRI Drive

As a response, CEOs in the manufacturing sector are taking active steps to mitigate their supply chain risks. The Global Manufacturing Prospects 2022 report from accounting firm KPMG surveyed 150 CEOs in manufacturing worldwide. The past few years have shown us all how precarious the global supply chain can be.

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Business Continuity Planning for the Manufacturing Industry

everbridge

Building a Business Continuity Plan for the Manufacturing Industry. For those in the manufacturing industry, critical events threaten financial loss due to unplanned downtime, reduced factory utilization rates, lost revenue, and even employees put at risk. Manufacturing Industry-Specific Dangers. Brand diminishment.

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The Risks that Manufacturing Firms are Facing and the Impact that Follows

Fusion Risk Management

The reach and criticality of global manufacturers impacts almost everyone. Manufacturers are responsible for sourcing and producing life-sustaining food, medicine, commodities, and goods that we rely on. Additionally, operating in a global environment leaves manufacturers vulnerable to the results of geopolitical tensions.

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Prolonged, wide-area electrical power failure

Emergency Planning

lifts [elevators] blocked: people possibly trapped in them trains stranded: people possibly stranded in them traffic control inoperable: possibility of accidents and queues at road junctions critical facilities (hospitals, police stations, etc.)

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

However, we now live in a world in which 'manufactured reality' has loomed as large as objective reality as a result of the need to deal with beliefs, opinions and expectations that differ from what science and objectivity would inform and prescribe. It is unlikely that this need will ever be satisfied by artificial intelligence.

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Modernize Your NOC: A 2025 Guide to Reducing IT Costs and Protecting Profits by Constant Fischer

PagerDuty

Whether youre in finance services, technology, retail, or manufacturing, the message is clear: inefficiency is expensive, and its time to stop paying the price. Example: Manufacturing In manufacturing, unplanned downtime can cost tens of thousands of dollars per hour in lost production.

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Ep. 06- Driving BC from the top during COVID | Sheeba Philip

The Failover Plan Podcast

With both manufacturing operations in Uganda, Africa, and retail and operational activities in Texas, Sheeba has to shift immediately into business continuity mode without any formal training or plan. 16:15min- Adapting the manufacturing business in a foreign company. 3:03min- What does Akola mean what they do.

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