Why Food Supply Chain Risk Assessments Need Continuous Monitoring

A supplier risk assessment completed in January with scores reviewed, supporting documents filed, and results entered into a spreadsheet may be complete. But by April, if one supplier has recorded several quality incidents, a product sourced through that supplier appears in a recall, severe weather affects another supplier’s region, and a new sourcing relationship has changed the exposure tied to a key ingredient, in no longer is. When none of those developments make their way back into the original assessment, the recorded score still reflects conditions from months earlier.