supply-chain management

• Supply Chain Risks: Responding to the Wake-Up Call

  By Dave Lenckus  |  March 8, 2012

  Last year served as a wake-up call for manufacturers on the fragility of their supply chains. Catastrophes in 2011—including massive floods in Thailand that disrupted electronic- and auto-parts manufacturers—caused record totals of $105 billion of insured losses and $380 billion of total economic damages worldwide, according to Munich Reinsurance America.

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  Coverage Trends in Manufacturing’s “Big 3” Risks: Workers’ Comp, Product Recall and Supply Chains

  By Dave Lenckus  |  February 9, 2012

  With Workers’ Compensation, the big shift is the medical component of costs exceeding indemnity costs. With Supply Chain risk, it’s the realization that supply and upstream customer chains can be far more fragile than anticipated in a catastrophe. And for food processors, the emerging challenge is a food-safety law that...

• New Business Process Outsourcing: A Strategic Building Block For Innovation

  By Denise Garth  |  November 22, 2010

  Over the last four decades, outsourcing has morphed as business models evolved, technology advanced and competition for resources and expertise expanded.

• Forrester Research: Contents-Claims Provider Listed as "Hot"

  By Eric Gilkey, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 22, 2010

  Forrester Research Senior Analyst Ellen Carney recently authored a report that listed what she called the hottest insurance technology companies for 2010.