Manufacturing
Everbridge industry focus
Protect people, equipment, and production
Severe weather, natural and human-induced disasters, hazardous materials incidents, supply chain disruptions, equipment and technology failures, and all have one thing in common for manufacturers: they all result in money lost to unplanned downtime, reduced factory utilization rates, lost revenue, and even employees put at risk.
Close the gap: Achieving resilience and business continuity in manufacturing
In the face of numerous risks related to supply chains, vendors, facilities, and operations, achieving enterprise resilience and business continuity is a significant challenge for manufacturers. Overcoming these challenges requires intelligent tools and an integrated approach that goes above and beyond.
Create connections between facilities
BCIC empowers manufacturers to determine organizational risk and the potential impact of incidents down to each facility.
Align organizational priorities
Gaps often emerge between supply chains, vendors, and business processes. By consolidating all this information in one place, you can identify, monitor, and address vulnerabilities.
Integrate with third-party systems
BCIC connects with supply chain and other business systems to ensure critical data is always up-to-date.
Engage senior leadership
Gaps often emerge between supply chains, vendors, and business processes. By consolidating all this information in one place, you can identify, monitor, and address vulnerabilities.
Map relationships
Map the complex relationships between operations, business processes, and vendors, helping to determine how a disruption in one area may cascade across the organization.
Customer perspective: Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits
At Everbridge’s Resilience 2019 conference, we had the opportunity to sit down with Richard Biber, the Director of Business Continuity for Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits. In this video, Richard explained how he approaches his responsibilities, and truly aligns with the business and its mission to optimize crisis management and business continuity. He also discusses the importance of operationalizing Everbridge beyond disasters to drive additional value for the company’s employees, teams, drivers and customers.
Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits of America is the largest wine and spirits distributor in the United States with operations in 44 states.
“We were looking for a system that allowed us to have a universal and enterprise approach, and the system we found in Everbridge allowed use to do that.”
– Renee Welsh, Sr Director Facilities
Manufacturing use cases
Keep employees safe
Natural and human-induced threats and potentially hazardous environments can put your most valuable assets – your employees – at risk. You need to able to assess events, locate the people that need help and those that can help, and act quickly to get and keep your people out of harm’s way – and account for each employee’s safety.
Critical equipment failures
Equipment failures, IT failures and human error are the top three causes of unplanned manufacturing downtime – leading to hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars lost per year. When experts or teams need to be identified and rallied to address the situation, every minute saved by automating communications and ensuring the right people are alerted and begin resolving the issue as fast as possible minimizes the costs of these critical events.
“We can dynamically locate employees and visitors to deliver communication based on location. We have a clear understanding of whether they are going to be at a location, where they are today, or where they will be tomorrow.”
– Bhavesh Patel, Sr. Director, Security Operations & Technology
Additional resources
Security Magazine: End workplace violence
Acts of violence such as active shooters aren’t random,” says A. Benjamin Mannes. “From events such as Adam Lanza and Newtown, Nikolas Cruz and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Jin Yu Park at Virginia Tech, and even Jared Loughner, who shot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, all were planned.”
Research: State of IT incident management
Download this case study where Worldpay reduced the callout process to an average of 3 minutes, and automated the engagement of resources through integration with the CRM system utilizing Everbridge IT Alerting.
