While pro-active risk management should be applied to all customers, it is vital that suppliers at least focus on those retailers that have made a feature of risk management in their corporate strategies. To ignore risk in making presentations to such customers can often send a signal of complete mismatch between the needs of supplier and retailer. The degree of a customer's risk sensitivity can usually be gauged from the extent of its coverage of risk in their latest annual report. As it happens, Amazon devotes ten pages to risk in its annual report but, as Debenhams may be more relevant to C&T suppliers, it is perhaps more productive to focus on its six page treatment in its 2012 annual report.
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