Abstract
Public Private Partnership (PPP) has an important role in securing supply in Finland. Three methods are used in assessing the level of security of supply. First, in national expert groups, a linear mathematical model has been used. The model is based on interdependency estimates. It ranks societal functions or its more detailed components, such as items in the food supply chain, according to the effect and risk pertinent to the interdependencies. Second, the security of supply is assessed in industrial branch committees (clusters and pools) in the form of indicators. The level of security of supply is assessed against five generic factors (dimension 1) and tens of business branch specific functions (dimension 2). Third, in two thousand individual critical companies, the maturity of operational continuity management is assessed using Capability Maturity Model (CMM) in an extranet application. The pool committees and authorities obtain an anonymous summary. The assessments are used in allocating efforts for securing supply. The efforts may be new instructions, training, exercising, and in some cases, investment and regulation.
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- 1.
The unit could be a monetary unit. The mathematical method would allow for it.
However, loss of money doesn’t well describe the effect of failure in hospitals, for example. Therefore, in this study we only calculate total failure time. It will accumulate to those items on which the other items depend most. In this manner we find the relative total effects and risks caused by failures in each item.
- 2.
In this example the total adverse effect 1,000 has been distributed evenly to the three items, to start with.
So 333 is understood to be the direct adverse effect of 24 h of failure for each of the three items.
It is important to notice, that the final results are independent of this initial distribution.
- 3.
The conversion is based on so called Poisson process.
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Sivonen, H. (2010). Assessing Security of Supply: Three Methods Used in Finland. In: Alpas, H., Çırakoğlu, B. (eds) Food Chain Security. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9558-9_9
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