Supply chain resilience
Supply chain resilience is "the capacity of a supply chain to persist, adapt, or transform in the face of change".[1]
Origins
Around the turn of the millennium, supply chain risk management has attempted to transfer traditional risk management approaches from the "company" system to the "supply chain" system.[2] However, the scalability of traditional risk management steps (identification, assessment, treatment and monitoring of risks) quickly reaches its limits: It is entirely possible to identify all conceivable risks within a company; However, a supply chain often consists of thousands of companies – the attempt to identify all possible risks in this system is therefore much more complex, if not in vain.[1] It is a popular concept in contemporary supply chain management. It has therefore been argued that the complexity of supply chains requires complementary measures such as supply chain resilience.[3] Resilience is able to cope with all sorts of changes and is thus less about the identification of specific risks but more about the characteristics of the system.[4]
Interpretations of supply chain resilience
Resilience in the sense of engineering resilience
For a long time, the interpretation of resilience in the sense of
Resilience in the sense of socio-ecological resilience
Social-ecological resilience goes back to
Literature
- Sheffi, Y. (2007). The resilient enterprise: overcoming vulnerability for competitive advantage. Zone Books.
- Walker, B. (2020). Resilience: what it is and is not. Ecology and Society, 25(2).
- Wieland, A., & Durach, C.F. (2021). Two perspectives on supply chain resilience. Journal of Business Logistics, 42(3), pp. 315-322.
References
- ^ a b c d Wieland, A., & Durach, C. F. (2021). Two perspectives on supply chain resilience. Journal of Business Logistics. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbl.12271
- ^ Norrman, A., & Jansson, U. (2004). Ericsson’s proactive supply chain risk management approach after a serious sub‐supplier accident. International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, 34(5), 434-456. https://doi.org/10.1108/09600030410545463
- ^ see Walker, B. (2020). Resilience: what it is and is not. Ecology and Society, 25(2).
- ^ Sheffi, Y. (2007). The resilient enterprise: overcoming vulnerability for competitive advantage. Zone Books.
- ^ a b c Wieland, A. (2021). Dancing the supply chain: Toward transformative supply chain management. Journal of Supply Chain Management, 57(1), 58-73. https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12248
- ^ see Holling, C. S. (1996). Engineering resilience versus ecological resilience. In: Engineering within ecological constraints, 31(1996), 32.
- ^ Simchi‐Levi, D., Wang, H., & Wei, Y. (2018). Increasing supply chain robustness through process flexibility and inventory. Production and Operations Management, 27(8), 1476-1491.
- ISSN 0020-7543.
- ^ Folke, C. (2006). Resilience: The emergence of a perspective for social–ecological systems analyses. Global Environmental Change, 16(3), 253-267.