Resilient Supply Chain

The image provided by NOAA National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center shows an early computer model forecasting the chances of a windy, strong sleet-snow storm hitting the East Coast this weekend, Jan. 22-23, 2016.

The idea that El Niño is an unmanageable source of chaos that can only be dealt with on a reactionary basis is incorrect.

Globe-spanning supply chains are now exposed to a wider array of risks than ever before, elevating the importance of detection time as a measure of performance.

This report commissioned by the Department for Transport and undertaken by Cranfield School of Management’s Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (CLSCM) aims to clarify the complex issues inherent in the identification and management of supply chain vulnerability.

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.

Supply chain disruptions are inevitable after large-scale disasters and political unrest. While they’re unavoidable, the more companies can do to improve their supply chain visibility and agility, the better prepared they are to mitigate the impact of disaster as well as navigate around the daily disruptions, such as market fluctuations in capacity and pricing.

In this video Jonathan Wright, Managing Director ASEAN, Accenture discusses the vulnerability in today's global supply chains that have recently been exposed. He also discusses the four areas of the blueprint which is the key output of the report.