Our Approach
The Interos five-phase Supply Chain Risk Management approach helps agencies reduce risks to their supply chain through deploying high value expertise with a global problem–solving approach. Our Supply Chain Risk Management systematic approach enables supply chain process transformation resulting in risk mitigation for federal agencies:
Interos provides clients in-depth knowledge of supply chain risk management gained in multiple industries. Our core strengths – high value expertise, multi-dimensional problem solving and process transformation – enable us to actively address risks and vulnerabilities threatening your organization’s ability to achieve its critical objectives. Our Supply Chain Risk Management approach systematically addresses these concerns to deliver superior outcomes:
- Phase I: Identify and Scope
Identify possible risks and vulnerabilities in your supply chain. In this phase, it’s critical to comprehensively scope out the array of risks to be assessed, ensuring they meet criteria determining a material concern for clients. - Phase II: Evaluate and Prioritize
Determine the relative importance of risks based on criticality, cost, performance and operational security. Here, risks are recorded, documented and ranked to ensure risk management resources are optimally allocated. - Phase III: Preempt and Mitigate
Actively manage risks based on independent analysis and best practices. Through preemption, supply chain risk management experts reduce or eliminate the possibility of potential deviations or disruptions in supply chain operations. Through mitigation, they seek to confine, alleviate or reduce the likely impact of such events. - Phase IV: Monitor and Measure
Continually assess overall strategy, structure, processes, approach and systems drawing on operational measures and reporting for agencies and their supply chain partners. Rapidly sense and respond to operational deviations or disruptions, significantly enhancing performance, service levels and resiliency. - Phase V: Refine and Align
Drawing on operations through continual analysis for new risks, key metrics, feedback and reporting on ongoing mitigation and preemption methods, agencies and their supply chain partners can refine and enhance overall strategy, structure, processes, approach and systems moving into the future. Realizing that new risks will constantly be unveiled creates the need for such actions to drive continual improvement – helping to ensure that each organization fully optimizes its own supply chain from source to delivery. Even more importantly, such efforts support the elimination of silos and stovepipes that have demonstrably weakened our national security in the past. Instead, they continually ensure all supply chain participants are optimally aligned.
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To understand how we have used this approach to help federal agencies, please visit the Case Studies section of our website.
