Supply Chain Resilience Survey 2012

This report summarises the key outcomes of the newly published BCI’s 4th Annual Supply Chain Resilience Survey, which considered the causes and consequences of supply chain disruption; techniques to identify key supply chains; as well as offering up approaches and solutions to achieve supply chain resilience.

532 from across 68 countries and 14 different industry sectors responded to the survey.

The survey was supported by the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply, Zurich Insurance Group and DHL Supply Chain. The survey highlights the importance that outsourcing decisions have in supply chain resilience, with service issues now accounting for 35% of supply chain resilience disruptions (up from 17% in 2011), putting it in third place on the list of causes of supply chain disruptions.

Other key findings include:

• Over 73% of organizations recorded at least one supply chain disruption in 2011 with 39% of analysed disruption originating from below the immediate     supplier
• 58% experienced a high impact supply chain disruption caused by unplanned IT or telecom outages
• 48% experienced a supply chain disruption due to adverse weather
• Currency volatility was identified as the fourth leading cause of supply chain disruption
• One in five companies registered a single incident loss of more than €1M