{"id":2660,"date":"2009-04-30T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T13:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2009\/04\/30\/swine-flu-bird-flu-whatever-flu-have-a-supply-chain-contingency-plan\/"},"modified":"2021-08-10T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T15:19:09","slug":"swine-flu-bird-flu-whatever-flu-have-a-supply-chain-contingency-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/swine-flu-bird-flu-whatever-flu-have-a-supply-chain-contingency-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Whatever Flu &#8211; Have A Supply Chain Contingency Plan!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this week is the spread of swine flu, particularly in low-cost sourcing hotspot, Mexico. In fact, Mexico is shutting down its private industry for five days!<\/p>\n<p>Yep, five days of no production, no shipping, no phone calls returned, etc. from your Mexican suppliers. And, who knows: if those five days fail to sufficiently contain the spread of swine flu, the final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/news\/purchasing-articles\/supply-disruptions\/\">supply disruption<\/a> could be longer.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2006, I wrote an article entitled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/news\/purchasing-articles\/contingency-plans\/\">The Next Purchasing Crisis &amp; Contingency Plans<\/a>.\u201d It gave several steps for how to mitigate supply chain risk in the face of the predicted spread of bird flu or similar pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my friends, that time is here. The tips are still valid.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn\u2019t implement my recommendations three years ago, I strongly suggest that you do so now. Even if swine flu doesn\u2019t materialize to be the massive pandemic some officials fear it will become, you can probably bet that there will be more pandemic scares in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get caught off-guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Recommended Reading<\/b><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/course\/view.php?id=21-2\">Improving Quality in the Supply Chain<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\">Procurement Strategy Development<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/course\/view.php?id=17\">Executing a Global Sourcing Strategy<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\">Tactical vs. Strategic Procurement Splits<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/products\/procurement-in-2025-five-megatrends-and-their-implications\">Procurement in 2025: Five Megatrends and Their Implications<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lms.nextlevelpurchasing.com\/\"><b>NLPA Learning<\/b><\/a><b>:<\/b>\u00a0Looking for authoritative procurement templates, tools, webinars, and more? Stop trying to create resources from scratch and start taking advantage of having exactly what you need right at your fingertips in\u00a0NLPA Learning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The big news this week is the spread of swine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Whatever Flu \u2013 Have A Supply Chain Contingency Plan!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Even if swine flu doesn\u2019t materialize to be the massive pandemic some officials fear it will become, you can probably bet that there will be more pandemic scares in the future.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/swine-flu-bird-flu-whatever-flu-have-a-supply-chain-contingency-plan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Whatever Flu \u2013 Have A Supply Chain Contingency Plan!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Even if swine flu doesn\u2019t materialize to be the massive pandemic some officials fear it will become, you can probably bet that there will be more pandemic scares in the future.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/swine-flu-bird-flu-whatever-flu-have-a-supply-chain-contingency-plan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Next Level Purchasing Association (NLPA)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NextLevelPurchasing\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2009-04-30T13:41:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-08-10T15:19:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/11\/nlpa-images-033.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1067\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@nextlevelpurch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Galo Matagay\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/swine-flu-bird-flu-whatever-flu-have-a-supply-chain-contingency-plan\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/swine-flu-bird-flu-whatever-flu-have-a-supply-chain-contingency-plan\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Galo Matagay\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/#\/schema\/person\/72d094fab77892483dfa6e061cb27eaa\"},\"headline\":\"Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Whatever Flu &#8211; 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