Not only is compliance difficult to achieve (especially among sub-tier suppliers), but it's only half the battle.
The new system contains a lengthy list of sub-tiers of migrant, but broadly they are classed as one of four 'tiers'tiers
Traditional supply chain practices have primarily focused on dyadic risk management, rarely considering risks in the sub-tier supply network.
"As our dollars leave the consumer and go to the brand and then the manufacturer and then the sub-tiers below that, our values should follow them" — Justin Dillon.
Synched data should give you a point of view on these sub-tier suppliers as well.
Typically, there has been at least a partial transfer of decision-making powers, enforcement of regulations, and planning and managing public health activities to sub-national tiers.
In general, the agencies with delegated powers have undergone a further process of de-concentration, with establishment of sub-national tiers.
In Poland, reforms during the 1990s had also devolved some responsibility to the sub-national tier (the voivodship) but, since 1999, powers have progressively been transferred back to the centrally managed public health system.
This dendrogram was then cut at three levels, creating 15 groups, 86 subgroups, and 493 sub-subgroups at tiers 1, 2 and 3, respectively.
The health system is decentralized at district and health sub-district level with no regional tier.
But this extra complexity, which sometimes results in the use of tiers of sub-contractors and impacts on supply chain visibility, inevitably exposes the buyer to increased risk.
