1. A major incident or catastrophic event that could impact the ability to trade.
The risk treatment for major incident or catastrophic should be using the corrective control as a tool for recovery against loss or damage. One of the option is insurance, which is protecting and covering the cost of unexpected outcome. The insurance can transfers the cost to a third party for taking the risks caused by major incident or catastrophic.
Another response is the company should improving the business continuity policy management. The strategy should ensuring that the major incident or catastrophic policy plan is in place and effectively follow by the employee and have an authorise level to make decisions. The main purpose of the risk treatment should be the fact that company can achieve appropriate response and continually trade.
In addition, training is the important ways of reducing the risks. A well fully train will rise awareness for the manager and employee in order to fit the purpose of the business continuity strategy at operational level.
2. Inadequate systems or failure of key IT systems could have a significant impact on business.
IT Director is responsible for IT system failure or inadequate system as the whole of all the company branches across the country and overseas. One of the implementation plan is maintaining the IT system to ensuring that there is smoothly operated. However, it is still the risks of the IT failure, which can prevent by have a recovery plan and control in place.
Another treatment is upgrades the system of self scanning checkouts to handle with the high demand of customer. Also frequency testing the system.
However, there is not only improving the IT system within the company but to ensure that supply chain system has been properly connected with other IT systems.
3. Fluctuations in interest and foreign currency rates and the impact of turbulence in financial markets.
The company should maintains the liquidity with the cash flow and control of credit. In financial statement of Sainsbury reported that the Net dept at the end of the year has increasing nearly two-hundred million pound compare with the beginning of the year in 2013.
The Board of directors should use the preventive control as a treat to limit the Net dept and manage the dept that more likely to arise.
In addition, the cash flow is a foundation of business structure, especially during the recession. In short term risks could be the difficult to find the financial provider and in long term risks may be the high interest rates. Therefore, the financial risk management team should design the plan protection for low cash flow during the time of interest and currency exchange rates has increasing.