Managing Supply Chain Risk

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now rst determines if the remote analysis is sucient before conducting

on- site assessments.

If the remote assessment is not sucient, depending on the situa-

tion and perception of risk, the rm will conduct either a Rapid Plant

Assessment (RPA) process or an internally developed full- scale supplier

Global Business Process Assessment (GBPA). Both are on- site assessments

and use the same 12 categories and special categories of need/ risk as the

SQCM. Again, the term “risk” is not generally used outside of the SQG.

Approximately 70–80% of assessments are remote only, 15–20% ...