Shared service centres

The final phase will be to look at longer-term potential conflicts or cross-service issues. These are possible because services are increasingly being provided by shared service centres and in more generic ways (e.g. some shared resources may be asked to work on both UK and French contracts with different legal approaches ALARP vs GALE (Boulton 2010) and some safety services may be hosted on virtualized servers running both safety and non-safety services). 

Determined not to see a repeat of this catastrophic event - the size of the inventory write-off created a new world record and led to a major financial setback for the company - Cisco set out to build a state of the art communications network to enable information to be shared across the extended enterprise of their major tier 1 suppliers and logistics service providers. This has been achieved through the creation of an e-hub . The purpose of the e-hub is to act as the nerve centre and to ensure real-time visibility of demand, inventory levels and production schedules. Through its event management capability it can provide early warning of supply chain problems. 

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