ISACA: How to Strengthen Supply Chain Resiliency During the Pandemic
Source: ISACA
Schaumburg, IL, USA – The spread of COVID-19 forced nearly all enterprises to revisit their business continuity plans. This reassessment often revealed significant gaps—including failure to factor in the potential need for an entirely remote workforce and to consider impacts to supply chain. A new white paper from ISACA, Supply Chain Resilience and Continuity: Closing Gaps Exposed in a Global Pandemic, offers approaches that enterprises can implement to increase the resiliency of their own supply chain—during the current pandemic and potential similar future crises.
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