
180 • Supply Chain Risk Management: An Emerging Discipline
risk register system to rst evaluate if their business unit or region has ever
dealt with this type of risk before. If so, they immediately review all the
pertinent information stored in the system in terms of how the business
unit or region “treated” that risk and how long it took to mitigate the risk.
If the unit or region has never encountered the risk, they search the world-
wide risk register system to see if another unit has encountered this risk.
If the corporation has never encountered the risk, a call to the SCRM cor-
porate group is made, and collectively the teams begin t