The chain gang

Supply chain management is becoming more important within energy companies, making liaising between the supply chain manager and the risk manager essential in order to avoid compromising operational risk, writes Raees Lakhani

Supply chain management (SCM) is beginning to have an elevated role in the corporate hierarchy of energy companies, with more SCM professionals assuming board level positions than ever before.

The importance of supply chain management to energy companies can hardly be overstated. It is, after all, the supply chain that ensures energy in its various forms gets to the right people at the right time and at the right cost. However, besides the obvious upstream/downstream supply chain logistics, there