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141 STEP 5: DEVELOP STRATEGIES, ACTIONS, AND PLANS Yes No Internal to your Organization Do you have a continuity of operations/business continuity plan that has been updated in the past three years? Have you developed operations and maintenance strategies that will lead to a more effective response to a future disruption?
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142 STEP 6: IMPLEMENT STRATEGIES AND ACTIONS Yes No Internal to your Organization Have you directed the responsible staff for implementing resilience strategies, actions or plans to examine where in the implementation process improvements can be made to improve strategy/action delivery? Have you implemented changes in operations and maintenance strategies/actions that will lead to a more effective response to a future disruption?
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143 STEP 7: MONITOR PERFORMANCE AND INCORPORATE INTO CURRENT PRACTICE Yes No Internal to your Organization Have you developed and used system measures to monitor the resilience of the supply/chain transportation system (so-called outcome measures)
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144 STRATEGIES FOR ENHANCING SUPPLY CHAIN/TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM RESILIENCE The focus of the strategies presented in this section is primarily on the interface between the public and private sector agencies and organizations that have a role to play in such efforts. It is assumed that private firms and companies know their business and have thought through how internally the company will respond to disruptions (if this is not the case, the following guidance will be helpful in thinking through how to do so)
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145 STEP 1: ORGANIZE FOR SUCCESS Yes, we should do this Your organization needs a better strategy ….. Identify key partners in your own business/sector that would be important to make the supply chain more resilient (e.g., private firms would consider customers, logistics providers, other shippers, etc.
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146 Monitor the performance of your organization in response to incidents and examine how the organization could be better organized to respond in the future. Examine the remaining steps in the self-assessment framework and determine where value-added efforts need to be made to enhance supply chain resilience.
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147 to identify possible strategies for enhancing your organization's communication's capabilities. Modify your strategy for communicating during supply chain disruptions based on lessons learned from prior incidents or incidents that happened elsewhere but whose impacts and consequences are known.
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148 operations that are part of your responsibility in the supply chain for their sensitivity to system resilience. Examine the project planning protocols/design criteria for the physical infrastructure that is part of your responsibility in the supply chain for their sensitivity to system resilience.
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