You have been hired by a small manufacturing company in South Texas to help them prepare a contingency planning document. The practice has a network, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supporting applications. Prepare a list of threat categories and the associated business impact for each. Identify preventive measures for each type of threat category. Include at least one potential disaster for the organization.

Describe the basic activities that must be managed by the BCP.  Develop plans for alternate site relocation, and develop an estimated monthly budget for the alternate site operations.

The following sections should be outlined as Headers in the paper.

Introduction, thesis statement, overview, purpose
Background, discuss history of topic
Discussion, identify benefits, obstacles, innovations
Conclusion, summarize the overall study, lessons learned
References, minimum three references with citations in the body

The paper needs to be at least two pages not to include the Title or Reference section. Please ensure to use the Author, YYYY APA citations with any content brought into the paper. The paper will be submitted through Safe Assign.

Resources

1. Contingency planning: http://www.ifrc.org/en/what-we-do/disaster-management/preparing-for-disaster/disaster-preparedness-tools/contingency-planning-and-disaster-response-planning/
2. Justifying the contingency plan:  http://work911.com/cgi-bin/planning/jump.cgi?ID=6757
3. The legal issues of disaster recovery planning:  http://www.drj.com/new2dr/toolchest/legal.pdf