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How do I determine the necessary infrastructure for my organization?
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To implement clause 7.1.3 you need to determine the necessary infrastructure for your organization. That involves assessing your operational needs and considering potential risks:
- Identify Key Processes: Understand your core activities and processes.
- Define Requirements: List the resources needed for each process, including equipment, software, hardware, and buildings.
- Evaluate Gaps: Identify what you have and what's missing to meet process requirements, considering potential risks or disruptions.
- Prioritize Investments: Allocate resources to bridge gaps based on criticality, available budget, and risk mitigation.
- Review Regularly: Continuously assess and adjust infrastructure as your organization evolves and new risks emerge.
Examples:
In the case of a logistics company, they determined the necessary infrastructure in the following way:
- Identify Key Processes: The logistics company's core activities involve warehousing, inventory management, and transportation.
- Define Requirements: They require warehouse space, an inventory management system, a fleet of vehicles, and tracking software.
- Evaluate Gaps: During the assessment, they lacked an efficient inventory management system and faced potential stockouts and delay risks.
- Prioritize Investments: They allocated a budget to implement an advanced inventory management system to bridge the gap and mitigate the risk of stockouts.
- Review Regularly: The company committed to regular assessments to adapt to changing logistics needs and emerging risks.
In the case of a manufacturing company, a plastic injection molding, they determined the necessary infrastructure in the following way:
- Identify Key Processes: The manufacturing company specializes in plastic injection molding processes.
- Define Requirements: They need injection molding machines, molds, and quality control equipment.
- Evaluate Gaps: Through assessment, they realized that they lacked redundant machines and molds, posing risks of production downtime in case of machine failure.
- Prioritize Investments: The budget was allocated to purchase additional machines and molds, ensuring uninterrupted production and risk mitigation.
- Review Regularly: Regular reviews were scheduled to adapt to market demands and proactively address equipment maintenance and replacement needs.