Supply Chain Control Risks

More compliance hints, here in the supply chain.  Emphasized in our talk this past week at the SCCE conference.  Just keeping an accurate list of connections like suppliers can be of considerable value in understanding risks.

How eSourcing software can tighten supply chain control
Complex, global supply chains present risks, but eSourcing software can improve oversight of suppliers and streamline the assessment of potential suppliers. For example, eSourcing allows supply chain managers to easily capture and analyze data on suppliers, highlighting potential problems. Meanwhile, "[c]aptured data can also easily be integrated into other supporting business systems e.g. Purchase-to-Pay, finance, MRP or logistics to offer users of these systems greater insight into supplier activity," writes Alun Morris of WaxDigital. .....  "

Identity and Access Intelligence

Gave an invited talk at the SCCE Corporate Compliance conference yesterday in Chicago about compliance analytics.  Met a number of new people and saw examples of their work.  Here is an example that looked of interest, they are using data visualization to provide identity and access intelligence to detect data privacy breaches.  Good use of the method.  See:   Veriphyer.   See also their blog, which has lots of interesting examples.