An Integrated Approach to Managing Supply Chain Risk

Supply chain integrity has never been a bigger or more complex challenge for today's global businesses. Increased pressure for improved financial performance, combined with the need to optimize assets and resources, has resulted in a growing reliance on outsourcing and offshoring, often to developing countries. However, with the benefit of reduced costs comes the increased and more complex threat of supply chain interruption. Efficient supply chains are by definition lean, stretched and fragile, resulting in an ever-present threat of breakdown. While most organizations prepare themselves for the more obvious areas of weakness, breakdown can come from unanticipated causes and all too often, traditional insurance products fail to provide any, or sufficient, financial help.

Many companies fail to appraise the full extent of supply chain vulnerabilities, and as a result, are not totally confident that risks are managed within acceptable financial targets. In this session our experts explain how an integrated model for the identification, treatment and acceptance of risk can address these concerns.

An Integrated Approach to Managing Supply Chain Risk is being presented by James Bird & Andrew Tait, Partner, Jardine Lloyd Thompson & Principal, Core Risks Ltd. and airs on Tuesday, March 2, 2010. For more details or to register, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

An Integrated Approach to Managing Supply Chain Risk

Supply chain integrity has never been a bigger or more complex challenge for today's global businesses. Increased pressure for improved financial performance, combined with the need to optimize assets and resources, has resulted in a growing reliance on outsourcing and offshoring, often to developing countries. However, with the benefit of reduced costs comes the increased and more complex threat of supply chain interruption. Efficient supply chains are by definition lean, stretched and fragile, resulting in an ever-present threat of breakdown. While most organizations prepare themselves for the more obvious areas of weakness, breakdown can come from unanticipated causes and all too often, traditional insurance products fail to provide any, or sufficient, financial help.

Many companies fail to appraise the full extent of supply chain vulnerabilities, and as a result, are not totally confident that risks are managed within acceptable financial targets. In this session our experts explain how an integrated model for the identification, treatment and acceptance of risk can address these concerns.

An Integrated Approach to Managing Supply Chain Risk is being presented by James Bird & Andrew Tait, Partner, Jardine Lloyd Thompson & Principal, Core Risks Ltd. and airs on Wednesday, January 27, 2010. For more details or to register for this event, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com

Clinical Trial Insurance: Managing Common Problems and Pitfalls

Proof of clinical trial insurance is often a requirement in order to initiate clinical trials. However, obtaining such proof - normally in the form of an insurance certificate - is not always a straightforward process. This presentation explores the reasons behind that, and examines why there is no consistent approach across territories for the same trial/protocol. It also examines the implementation of the European Clinical Trials Directive and the resulting frustrations felt by purchasers of insurance in terms of delay, administration and cost.

In this audio conference, the speaker looks at how the law/regulations, practical requirements, information requirements and insurer approaches can differ by territory, and draws upon extensive experience to put forth some methods of managing this and avoiding pitfalls along the way.

Clinical Trial Insurance: Managing Common Problems and Pitfalls is being presented by James Bird, Partner, with Jardine Lloyd Thompson and airs on Tuesday, September 29, 2009. For more details or to register for this event, please visit our site at www.fxconferences.com