WGU
Packaging X must have a plan in place to implement the previously discussed business continuity plan (BCP). The implementation plan is important as these plans can reveal new issues and challenges that may not have been originally anticipated. The plan is used to help minimize any impact of disruption and to ready all employees. The risks identified earlier include:
Loss of workplace
Loss of product
Loss of customer information
Inability to deliver goods and inability to receive goods.
This affects the whole company with specific attention to customer service, warehouses, and IT to keep the business moving. The first step of the plan is to get everyone on board. It’s important that the owners and management are in agreement a plan needs to exist in order to get support from the rest of the company. Once the higher management is committed and ready to create a plan, a designated disaster implementation team must be created. Because there are several locations for this company, a committee should be made at each location with a super committee overseeing the larger picture and connecting dots between the locations. The smaller groups will contain leads from every department acting as liaisons. The different teams will recognize different disaster situations affecting their particular areas. These should be acknowledged and prioritized according to needs of the company’s big picture. It’s very easy for each unit to see their own issues as the biggest issues, which is why the larger committee is so important. The best way to prevent disruption by disaster is to make sure current policies are being followed so that when changes come, changes will be the same for everyone. It’s very hard to evaluate and come up with a plan for disaster if everyone is working by their own rules. Currently expectations are that the following are already taking place: