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      "title": "Supply Chain Risk Engineering",
      "shortDefinition": "Supply chain risk engineering identifies an operation's critical suppliers and customers and quantifies the resulting contingent business interruption exposure as a basis for limits, diversification and continuity measures.",
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      "body": "## Problem\n\nGlobalised, heavily segmented value chains and single-source procurement increase dependency on individual suppliers or sites. A critical supplier for risk assessment purposes is not necessarily the one with the highest purchasing volume, but the one whose failure would trigger the largest loss of income at the policyholder's own operation.\n\n## Approach\n\nThe assessment maps suppliers and customers by substitutability, lead time and share of own production, determines the maximum outage duration for each critical partner in the event of a total loss, and derives the required contingent business interruption limit from it. Multi-sourcing, stock buffers and alternative sources of supply are reviewed as mitigating measures.\n\n## Insurance relevance\n\nThe results determine the limit structure of contingent business interruption cover and the distinction between named and unnamed suppliers in the policy. Inadequately mapped supply chains are among the most common causes of underinsured business interruption losses."
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      "title": "Lieferketten-Risikobewertung (Supply Chain Risk Engineering)",
      "shortDefinition": "Die Lieferketten-Risikobewertung identifiziert kritische Lieferanten und Abnehmer eines Betriebs und quantifiziert das daraus resultierende Rückwirkungsschaden-Potenzial als Grundlage für Limiten, Diversifizierung und Kontinuitätsmassnahmen.",
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        "Lieferantenrisikoanalyse"
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      "body": "## Problemstellung\n\nGlobalisierte, stark segmentierte Wertschöpfungsketten und Single-Source-Beschaffung erhöhen die Abhängigkeit von einzelnen Lieferanten oder Standorten. Ein kritischer Lieferant im Sinne der Risikobewertung ist nicht zwingend derjenige mit dem höchsten Einkaufsvolumen, sondern derjenige, dessen Ausfall den grössten Ertragsausfall im eigenen Betrieb auslöst.\n\n## Vorgehen\n\nDie Bewertung kartiert Lieferanten und Abnehmer nach Substituierbarkeit, Wiederbeschaffungszeit und Anteil an der eigenen Produktion, ermittelt je kritischem Partner die maximale Ausfalldauer bei einem Totalschaden und leitet daraus das erforderliche Rückwirkungsschaden-Limit ab. Ergänzend werden Mehrfachlieferanten, Lagerpuffer und alternative Bezugsquellen als Minderungsmassnahmen geprüft.\n\n## Versicherungsrelevanz\n\nDie Ergebnisse bestimmen die Limitenstruktur der Rückwirkungsschadendeckung (Contingent Business Interruption) sowie die Unterscheidung zwischen benannten und unbenannten Lieferanten in der Police. Unzureichend kartierte Lieferketten zählen zu den häufigsten Ursachen unterversicherter Betriebsunterbrechungsschäden."
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