The ALS Group Risk Management Articles

Businesses face a wide range of risks that can impact their operations, profitability, and long-term sustainability. Understanding and controlling these risks is crucial for staying competitive and positioning a company for growth. One essential tool for achieving this is by measuring the Total Cost of Risk (TCoR).

As companies think about their supply chain and the risks that are inherent with that area, a good place to start is with your contract terms with the supplier – what are the terms you want? What are the terms you have agreed to? With the unsettling state of affairs of the world today, a manufacturer or distributor has to be properly vetted and the terms of supply carefully considered. What is an acceptable delay or non-delivery?

As part of any effective risk management program, the quantification of the Total Cost of Risk (“TCoR”) is an important number to focus on. This article focuses on how Workers Compensation (“WC”) costs contribute to a company’s TCoR and, specifically, how the Experience Modification (“X-MOD”) factor works and can be managed. We take TCoR seriously in our risk advisory practice as having a TCoR that is lower than a company’s peers gives that company a competitive advantage in, both, how it conducts its business and the opportunities it can pursue.