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Appendix: The Supply Chain
Risk Assessment Tool
As we mentioned in Chapter12, as the concept of supply chain risk man-
agement began to solidify into a body of knowledge and then courseware,
within the framework of an enterprise- wide risk management approach
(ERM), several major tenets developed into a set of questions- of- discovery
regarding the maturity of the supply chain. As these supply chain tenets
began to solidify, a mechanism to review, evaluate, and position a compa-
ny’s maturity in supply chain excellence and design took shape in terms of
a “spider diagram” or heat map proling a company’s supply chain matu-
rity, which then rela ...