5th Annual Survey: Supply Chain Resilience 2013

This Supply Chain Resilience report is the fifth in a series that started in 2009 to consider the challenge of developing resilient supply chains.

This report, the result of a survey of 519 respondents from 71 countries, highlights the level, range and cost of disruptions that organizations face, and demonstrates how a disruption in one organization can spread out over the entire supply chain.

Consistently high levels of supply chain disruption are being reported with a number of threats being re-considered as new evidence and concerns emerge.

Supply chain disruptions are not a matter of if but when, although their relative impact on the organization can vary widely. As a starting point it can be useful to look at your most profitable product or service and look at the profit impact of related supplier failure on your organization.

The Business Continuity approach to Business Impact Analysis can be a valuable technique to identify key suppliers and operational impacts.

It is clear from the results of this survey that supply chain disruptions continue to have a significant impact on business performance and the problem is not being effectively managed.

One of the key challenges is to get consistent top management support for investing in improved supply chain resilience.