Supply Chain Risk

Supply Chain Risk Management Strategy Interview

Re-Defining Risk in the Chemical Supply Chain

WEW Westerwälder Eisenwerk GmbH create tank containers for hazardous chemicals, so they understand the importance of supply chain risk management more than most.

MD of WEW Westerwälder Eisenwerk GmbH, Jan Gerhard-de-Vries joins LogiChem to divulge their strategies for mitigating risk in the chemical supply chain, particularly during transportation.

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Interviewer: You were saying to me just before we started that you've got a very unique category in the supply chain world, and certainly have huge experience in the world of risk management. Perhaps you could tell us a bit more...
Jan: We build a niche product, tank containers for hazardous cargo, compared to box containers. That is a niche market. You always put hazardous cargo in tank containers, and therefore we take a lot of attention to building safe equipment because this equipment carries risk.

Interviewer: So what kind of risks are you regularly finding yourselves up against?
Jan: There are categories of the risk, if you transport hazardous cargo. Flammable, toxic, explosives, and all these kind of things.

Interviewer: And what approaches are you seeing your customers then taking to managing risk and how is your product fitting in with that?
Jan: The customers want safe products and there are a lot of regulations – international, national and European legislation – which you have to fulfil, and therefore the customers and we are sure that we put in safe equipment in the market.

Interviewer: Now, you're going to be heading up one of our roundtable sessions quite shortly in fact. Perhaps if you could tell us a little bit more about what you're going to be talking about and discussing.
Jan: We think that the hazardous cargo is very safe handled on site and it's very safe handled when it arrived at point B. So between point A and B, there could be risks because the equipment is safe but how do you monitor your hazardous cargo? And I think there is room for improvements. And we would like to inform the market what already is available.

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