Important information about Human Resources Planning

You are the Director of Human Resources for a company that manufactures a major component for a revolutionary new toy that is going to hit the market in time for next Christmas holiday season.

You have read in the paper that the company that will buy most of the parts is going out of business. Your mind begins to race. You think you might have a Human Resources Planning problem.

You know that your company has been very successful because of the close relationship you have developed with this company - they have for many years been relying on your organization to provide just in time delivery, quality assurances to their standards, and in fact, your IT people just completed a large project to fully integrate electronic information systems so that their production process could be seamless.

You really are one of their major partners, rather than just a supplier.

You have about 18 months to figure out if this problem is going to affect your company, and if so, how. You have been asked to meet with the VP Strategic Planning to discuss the issues raised by the newspaper article.

Outline

As you prepare for the meeting, you have an outline for your discussion consisting of the headings listed below:

Environmental factors that come into play here. Legal issues I may have to deal with are:

Supply analysis issues I may have to face, regarding:
Current internal supply
Potential internal supply