Encoding structural agility and resilient response ability to emergent risks within the global supply chain

Arjun Varma
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Arjun Varma: Beiersdorf AG, Supply Chain, Germany

Journal of Supply Chain Management, Logistics and Procurement, 2022, vol. 4, issue 3, 210-228

Abstract: This paper provides a roadmap on how to go about implementing supply resilience within a global organisation. It talks about the imperative to focus on supply agility and resilience in an increasingly VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous) environment, the ten core principles leveraging which one can build an effective supply resilience approach. It then discusses the need to have a holistic supply resilience program across source, make and deliver with cross-functional representatives and executive sponsorship. The paper speaks in some detail about how to go about conceptualising and executing the different workstreams of the program around procurement, manufacturing, logistics, resilient planning and innovation resilience. One needs to look at the big picture and hence it is important to bring the outputs and analytics of the different workstreams together to drive an end-to-end view of supply resilience and agility for a category and then overall for the supply chain. The paper gives an approach on how to look at this end-to-end view. Finally, it suggests the key success factors and tailwinds that are necessary to successfully execute and embed the supply resilience programme within the DNA of the organisation.

Keywords: supply chain resilience; supply chain risk management; supply chain agility; assortment harmonisation; integrated capacity and network management; procurement resilience; manufacturing resilience; logistics resilience; innovation resilience; end-to-end supply resilience; balance cost versus service versus resilience (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L23 M11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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