Download or read book Resilience Building Through the Study of Complex and Interdependent Supply Chain Networks written by Shweta Gaiki and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word 'Resilience' is part of daily lexicon today. In today's uncertain and turbulent times, supply chain disruptions have become an issue of significance for every industry. With globalization and lean trend, supply chains have become extremely complex, increasing supply chain risk. The challenge to business today is to build more resilience in supply chains to mitigate and tackle that risk. The research begins with the theoretical starting point of resilience and builds on the empirical research to understand the supply chain disruptions during pandemic. The mixed methods approach explores on and identifies the disruptions faced by supply chain professionals during pandemic and the factors necessary to build the resilience in supply chains, via interviews in qualitative phase and through surveys in quantitative phase. This study also focusses on identifying the root causes of disruptions, using the system thinking approach. With the information gathered from the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data, recommendations are summarized to overcome the identified disruptions, with quick fixes, pandemic coping mechanisms and strategic solutions. This concluded with the potential enablers and framework to build resilience in complex supply chain networks.
Download or read book Resilience by Teaming in Supply Chains and Networks written by Rodrigo Reyes Levalle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real-world supply chains and networks are inherently complex, formed by a large number of self-governing interconnected agents which dynamically update their behavior rules and connections based on context and environment changes. Oftentimes, these complex systems fail, almost inexplicably, due to unforeseen events leading to disruption. Exploration and research of the mechanisms behind the failure of supply chains and networks have revealed that those capable of surviving are not only robust, but resilient. The purpose of this book is to explain the meaning of resilience and its design in the broad context, and with a focus on the design and management of supply chains and supply networks. Written by Dr. Reyes Levalle, an experienced supply chains designer and supply networks engineer, the book is intended for beginners and advanced professionals, students, designers, policy makers, and managers. It is a pioneering effort to base resilience engineering and management on CCT, the collaborative control theory and tools.
Download or read book Supply Chain Resilience written by Sebastian Kummer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-24 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every global crisis highlights the strategic importance of industrial and non-profit supply chains for society. In terms of coping with unforeseen and unpredictable events, supply chain resilience enables the parties and networks involved to stay successful during and after the disruption. Furthermore, a resilient supply chain contributes to the sustainable competitive advantage of the entire value chain. Written by scholars and practitioners alike, this book not only puts forward a new framework for resilience in supply chain management, but also presents best practice cases from various areas and industries. As a particular highlight, it includes a Delphi study that gathers state-of-the-art insights from supply chain leaders. In addition to practical approaches, methods and tools, the book also offers food for thought on the future of supply chain resilience. As such, it offers a valuable resource for current and future managers in the public and private sector, as well as researchers and students engaged in this field.
Download or read book Managing Supply Chain Networks written by Alexandre Oliveira and published by FT Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USE KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION TO MAXIMIZE VALUE FROM TODAY’S SOPHISTICATED, FAST-CHANGING SUPPLY NETWORKS Build integrated, complementary supply networks that work together to win Accelerate the cycle from needs identification to product/service launch to customer experience Create long-term strategy adherence to the business that competes in fluid environments Leading companies are developing powerful new techniques for managing today’s complex, fluid supply networks. Now, Alexandre Oliveira and Anne Gimeno help you apply these techniques to embed greater agility, resilience, speed, and intelligence throughout your own supply chain network. Oliveira and Gimeno review how supply chains have changed, how they will change, and the radically new challenges and opportunities arising from these changes. Next, they show how to drive value by capturing and sharing your network’s knowledge far more effectively, and using it to drive innovations that strengthen the entire network. Going far beyond previous models, they guide you in improving interactions across all knowledge areas, functional supply chain building blocks, business structures, tactics, and external elements–including suppliers, customers, service providers, competitors, and non-competitors. Today, individual companies don’t compete: their supply chain networks do. Winning businesses must be capable of sensing and anticipating market shifts, and rapidly aligning their networks in response. In a word, their networks must be wiser. In this guide, leading practitioners Alexandre Oliveira and Anne Gimeno show how to embed actionable wisdom throughout your own complex supply network. You’ll learn how to create multi-company structures that promote the long-term success of your entire network, and how to accelerate innovation by leveraging knowledge and ideas from all network sources. Using practical examples, Oliveira and Gimeno demonstrate how to evolve more resilience and elasticity, building a network that can respond more quickly and coherently to any new risk, opportunity, problem, or trend. Managing Supply Chain Networks is invaluable to any strategist, executive, manager, or advanced student who wants to drive greater value and competitiveness from a complex supply chain network. PRESENTING AN EVOLUTION TO PORTER´S FIVE FORCES MODEL Detailing how to add value to shareholders and stakeholders in highly competitive business environments BUILDING INNOVATION-ENABLED KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP INTO YOUR NETWORK Strengthening long-term knowledge development and retention across your network IMPLEMENTING MECHANISMS THAT INCREASE NETWORK RESPONSIVENESS Optimizing connections, architecture, functions, and human interactions MANAGING RISK MORE SUCCESSFULLY IN NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS Transcending limited “firm-centered”risk management strategies PROMOTING GREATER COLLABORATION ACROSS YOUR NETWORK Using visibility, vendor selection, culture, governance, and other methods
Download or read book Introduction to Supply Chain Resilience written by Dmitry Ivanov and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to supply chain resilience, covering management, modeling and technology perspectives. Designed to accompany the textbook “Global Supply Chain and Operations Management” it addresses the topics of supply chain risks and resilience in more depth, describing the major features of supply chain resilience and explaining methodologies to mitigate supply chain disruptions and recover. Numerous practical examples and short case studies are provided to illustrate theoretical concepts. Without relying heavily on mathematical derivations, the book explains major concepts and methods to build and improve supply chain resilience and tackle supply chain disruption risks in a simple, uniform format to make it easy to understand for students and professionals with both management and engineering backgrounds. Graduate/PhD students and supply chain professionals alike will benefit from the structured, didactically oriented and concise presentation of the concepts, principles and methods of supply chain resilience management, modeling, and technological implementation.
Download or read book Lifelines written by Stephane Hallegatte and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Infrastructure—electricity, telecommunications, roads, water, and sanitation—are central to people’s lives. Without it, they cannot make a living, stay healthy, and maintain a good quality of life. Access to basic infrastructure is also a key driver of economic development. This report lays out a framework for understanding infrastructure resilience - the ability of infrastructure systems to function and meet users’ needs during and after a natural hazard. It focuses on four infrastructure systems that are essential to economic activity and people’s well-being: power systems, including the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity; water and sanitation—especially water utilities; transport systems—multiple modes such as road, rail, waterway, and airports, and multiple scales, including urban transit and rural access; and telecommunications, including telephone and Internet connections.
Download or read book Towards Resilient Supply Chain Networks written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade, events like 9/11 terror attacks, the recent financial crisis and other major crisis has proved that there is strong interaction and interdependency of a supply chain network with its external environments in various channels and thus a need to focus on building resiliency (in short, the ability of the system to recover from damage or disruption) of the entire network system. Although literature has discussed some way of improving resiliency of an individual firm which is a member of the network system, it lacked to capture a holistic view of the supply chain network. Pertaining to this observation, this work proposes to improve resiliency of a supply chain network from a systems perspective rather concentrate on an individual firm. For this purpose, this thesis proposes a conceptual framework to promote early identification and timely information of the disruptions arising in a supply chain network and timely sharing of this information among all the members of the network. The key principle emphasized in this thesis is that recovery from an inevitable disruption has a better possibility if a member of the supply chain network has an early indication or knowledge of the upcoming disruption. A discrete event dynamic system simulation tool called Petri nets is utilized to realize the proposed conceptual framework. Furthermore, the practical benefits and implications of the proposed model and tool are demonstrated with help of two case studies. This thesis has several contributions to the field of operation management and supply chain. First, a new paradigm for supply chain management to avoid large scale failures such as financial crisis is available to the field, which may be applied by governments or regulatory bodies. Second, a new framework which allows for a quantitative analysis of failures of an entire supply chain network is available to the field, which is easy to be used. Third, a novel application of Petri nets to this new problem in sup.
Download or read book Reliability Robustness and Resilience of Complex Supply Chain Systems written by Abdulaziz T. Almaktoom and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite numerous studies that consider service level, reliability, robustness, and resilience rates of individual factories in a supply chain system (SCS), the interactions among connected factories and the impact of those interactions on overall supply chain reliability, robustness, and resilience have been rarely studied. Moreover, ensuring the reliability, robustness, and resilience while considering uncertainties induced by various sources, such as transportation delay and manufacturing process variability, in individual factories and routes is a highly complex task. An extensive review of the current literature on global SCS design and analysis shows an urgent need to understand the concept of factory-to-factory supply chain systems, and to develop methods and techniques to efficiently measure and design them. Thus, this research addresses different imperative needs for SCSs, which have been structured into six research thrusts: (1) measurement of SCS service level (SL), (2) assurance of system SL robustness in complex supply chain networks (SCNs), (3) cost-efficient robust global SCS design under uncertainty, (4) measurement and optimization of reliability in complex SCSs, (5) measurement of resilience of multi-level SCSs, and (6) measurement and analysis of reliability, resiliency, and robustness of SCSs.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Promoting Logistics and Supply Chain Resilience Through Digital Transformation written by Masudin, Ilyas and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-11-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption of new technologies in logistics and supply chain processes is crucial for the continued effectiveness of supply chains. Technology has the potential to address the issue of logistics and supply chain visibility throughout the supply chain, from raw materials through manufacturers and end users. When properly implemented, improved forecasting of inventory levels, employee productivity, adequate accountability, and higher warehouse savings are all possible. Additionally, businesses must upskill their supply chain workers and recruit and manage digital talent in cross-functional teams. The Handbook of Research on Promoting Logistics and Supply Chain Resilience Through Digital Transformation discusses the ways in which global logistics and supply chains have been severely disrupted by digital technology transformation. The book helps policymakers in designing a resilient framework that can absorb external shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic and also enhances the performance and operational capability of the logistics and supply chain network. Covering topics such as oil and gas maintenance support, stakeholder management, and business optimization strategy, this major reference work is essential for logistics professionals, business leaders and executives, IT managers, government officials, manufacturers, students and faculty of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.
Download or read book Modeling Supply Chain Interdependent Critical Infrastructure Systems written by Varun Ramachandran and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While strategies for emergency response to large-scale disasters have been extensively studied, little has been done to map medium- to long-term strategies capable of restoring supply chain infrastructure systems and reconnecting such systems from a local urban area to national supply chain systems. This is, in part, because no comprehensive, data-driven model of supply chain networks exists. Without such models communities cannot re-establish the level of connectivity required for timely restoration of goods and services. This dissertation builds a model of supply chain interdependent critical infrastructure (SCICI) as a complex adaptive systems problem. It defines model elements, data needs/element, the interdependency of critical infrastructures, and suggests metrics for evaluating success. Previous studies do not consider the problem from a systematic view and therefore their solutions are piecemeal, rather than integrated with respect to both the model elements and geospatial data components. This dissertation details a methodology to understand the complexities of SCICI within a real urban framework (St. Louis, MO). Interdependencies between the infrastructures are mapped to evaluate resiliency and a framework for quantifying interdependence is proposed. In addition, this work details the identification, extraction and integration of the data necessary to model infrastructure systems"--Abstract, page iv.
Download or read book Building Resilient Supply Chain Using Interactive Visualization written by Prabhakar Tripathi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As supply chains expand globally and companies pursue speed, efficiency, and reduction in cost, the probability of disruptions propagating through the network grows. There are many documented threats to global supply chains: political instability, natural disasters, dock strikes, poor product quality, communications failures, currency risks, cyber-attacks, and recently a pandemic. These disruptions often incur additional costs and require time to respond and recover from these disruptions. Companies realize the importance of resilience in the supply chain network. However, due to the complex nature of the network, traditional processes, and outdated technology, the leadership team cannot make proper decisions against such disruptions. On the other hand, we found evidence of the importance of interactive visualization in decision-making. This research project introduces the application of interactive visualization in supply chain resilience decision-making. The application can be broken down into three parts. Firstly, a backend mixed-integer linear programming model that solves for a minimum total cost based on the inputs. Secondly, a front-end UI allows users to create any disruption scenarios using parameters - geography, time period, product, to visualize disruption such as demand variation, a shutdown of transshipment location, or a change in transportation mode. Lastly, a JSON file that connects the front and back end seamlessly. We use the application to create scenarios that are relevant for a multinational company. For the first use case, we explore the consequences of a shutdown of airports near distribution centers. For the second use case, we explore the availability of more than one transportation mode per lane. We analyze the results from the use cases to plan mitigation strategies for any such disruptions in the future. In conclusion, by creating scenarios and visualizing the network in a single and easy-to-understand application, we facilitate decision-making to test the network's resilience.
Download or read book Strengthening Post Hurricane Supply Chain Resilience written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resilient supply chains are crucial to maintaining the consistent delivery of goods and services to the American people. The modern economy has made supply chains more interconnected than ever, while also expanding both their range and fragility. In the third quarter of 2017, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria revealed some significant vulnerabilities in the national and regional supply chains of Texas, Florida, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. The broad impacts and quick succession of these three hurricanes also shed light on the effectiveness of the nation's disaster logistics efforts during response through recovery. Drawing on lessons learned during the 2017 hurricanes, this report explores future strategies to improve supply chain management in disaster situations. This report makes recommendations to strengthen the roles of continuity planning, partnerships between civic leaders with small businesses, and infrastructure investment to ensure that essential supply chains will remain operational in the next major disaster. Focusing on the supply chains food, fuel, water, pharmaceutical, and medical supplies, the recommendations of this report will assist the Federal Emergency Management Agency as well as state and local officials, private sector decision makers, civic leaders, and others who can help ensure that supply chains remain robust and resilient in the face of natural disasters.
Download or read book Supply Chain Risk written by George A. Zsidisin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Risk is of fundamental importance in this era of the global economy. Supply chains must into account the uncertainty of demand. Moreover, the risk of uncertain demand can cut two ways: (1) there is the risk that unexpected demand will not be met on time, and the reverse problem (2) the risk that demand is over estimated and excessive inventory costs are incurred. There are other risks in unreliable vendors, delayed shipments, natural disasters, etc. In short, there are a host of strategic, tactical and operational risks to business supply chains. Supply Chain Risk: A Handbook of Assessment, Management, and Performance will focus on how to assess, evaluate, and control these various risks.
Download or read book Probabilistic Analysis of Supply Chains Resilience Based on Their Characteristics Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks written by Mouhamad Shaker Ali Agha and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an increasing interest in the resilience of supply chains given the growing awareness of their vulnerabilities to natural and man-made hazards. Contemporary academic literature considers, for example, so-called resilience enablers and strategies, such as improving the nature of collaboration and flexibility within the supply chain. Efforts to analyse resilience tend to view the supply chain as a complex system. The present research adopts a distinctive approach to the analysis of supply resilience by building formal models from the perspective of the responsible manager. Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBNs) are selected as the modelling method since they are capable of representing the temporal evolution of uncertainties affecting supply. They also support probabilistic analysis to estimate the impact of potentially hazardous events through time. In this way, the recovery rate of the supply chain under mitigation action scenarios and an understanding of resilience can be obtained. The research is grounded in multiple case studies of manufacturing and retail supply chains, involving focal companies in the UK, Canada and Malaysia, respectively. Each case involves building models to estimate the resilience of the supply chain given uncertainties about, for example, business continuity, lumpy spare parts demand and operations of critical infrastructure. DBNs have been developed by using relevant data from historical empirical records and subjective judgement. Through the modelling practice, It has been found that some SC characteristics (i.e. level of integration,structure, SC operating system) play a vital role in shaping and quantifying DBNs and reduce their elicitation burden. Similarly, It has been found that the static and dynamic discretization methods of continuous variables affect the DBNs building process. I also studied the effect of level of integration, visibility, structure and SC operating system on the resilience level of SCs through the analysis of DBNs outputs. I found that the influence of the integration intensity on supply chain resilience can be revealed through understanding the dependency level of the focal firm on SC members resources. I have also noticed the relationship between the span of integration and the level of visibility to SC members. This visibility affects the capability of SC managers in the focal firm to identify the SC hazards and their consequences and, therefore, improve the planning for adverse events. I also explained how some decision rules related to SC operating system such as the inventory strategy could influence the intermediate ability of SC to react to adverse events. By interpreting my case data in the light of the existing academic literature, I can formulate some specific propositions.
Download or read book Study of the Application of a Decision Support Approach Based on Classical Physics Principles for Managing Supply Chain Risks and Opportunities Within Its Immersive Performance Management Cockpit written by Thibaut Cerabona and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to their complex networked nature of diverse interconnected and interdependent actors, supply chains have never been more prone and fragile to instability, which has been generated by a massive increase in natural and man-made disasters over the past decades and is becoming the norm. It has become impossible to ignore and eliminate the instability that exists. Being able to cope with this instability becomes an inescapable challenge and a strong expectation of managers. To meet this need, our works study the applicability of the Physics of Decision (PoD) approach, an innovative approach to decision support based on the laws of motion of classical physics. In this approach the focus is on developing a theoretical and mathematical framework to model the impact of risks and opportunities disrupting a supply chain as physical forces, deviating it like an object from its performance objectives in its multidimensional performance framework, built from its quantitative key performance indicators. This strong connection between the achievement of the performance objectives of a supply chain and its exposure to risks and opportunities through the use of physical laws is a strong contribution of the PoD approach. It allows (1) to examine the evolution of the supply chain in its performance framework through a kinematic analysis of its multidimensional performance trajectory and (2) to propose a reactive and predictive analysis based on the identified physical forces. Thus, being able to assess and formalize these deviation forces is one of the major challenges for the application of the PoD approach. Due to the unpredictable and unquantifiable nature of disruptions, supply chain risk and opportunity management cannot simply list the forces impacting it. In this highly volatile environment, supply chains need to build resilience (their ability to resist, adapt and respond to disruptions). In the literature, two definitions of supply chain resilience can be distinguished: engineering resilience (the speed of return to equilibrium) and ecological resilience (the amount of extrinsic forces it is able to withstand). Our research seeks to investigate the contributions of the PoD approach to measure in a single approach these two fundamental views of resilience, which to our knowledge has never been proposed. The contributions of the PoD approach also lie in the mastery of the performance framework (seen as a space at the heart of the decision process) and the theoretical calculation of the overall performance of a supply chain observed as a multidimensional trajectory. However, for systems such as supply chains, it is rare for managers to limit themselves to the observation of three indicators. It is therefore imperative to find a way to make these results easy to handle and visualizable in a more than three-dimensional framework. Virtual reality is the solution being explored to immerse decision-makers in a virtual version of the performance framework, in which they can visualize and interact with trajectories and forces, opening the door to a new generation of performance dashboards.
Download or read book Structural Dynamics and Resilience in Supply Chain Risk Management written by Dmitry Ivanov and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an introduction to structural dynamics, ripple effect and resilience in supply chain disruption risk management for larger audiences. In the management section, without relying heavily on mathematical derivations, the book offers state-of-the-art concepts and methods to tackle supply chain disruption risks and designing resilient supply chains in a simple, predictable format to make it easy to understand for students and professionals with both management and engineering background. In the technical section, the book constitutes structural dynamics control methods for supply chain management. Real-life problems are modelled and solved with the help of mathematical programming, discrete-event simulation, optimal control theory, and fuzzy logic. The book derives practical recommendations for management decision-making with disruption risk in the following areas: How to estimate the impact of possible disruptions on performance in the pro-active stage? How to generate efficient and effective stabilization and recovery policies? When does one failure trigger an adjacent set of failures? Which supply chain structures are particular sensitive to ripple effect? How to measure the disruption risks in the supply chain?
Download or read book The Resilient Enterprise written by Yossi Sheffi and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from Nokia, Dell, UPS, Toyota, and other companies show how firms can reduce their vulnerability to high-impact distributions, from earthquakes to strikes, from SARS to terrorism, and use them for competitive advantage. What happens when fire strikes the manufacturing plant of the sole supplier for the brake pressure valve used in every Toyota? When a hurricane shuts down production at a Unilever plant? When Dell and Apple chip manufacturers in Taiwan take weeks to recover from an earthquake? When the U.S. Pacific ports are shut down during the Christmas rush? When terrorists strike? In The Resilient Enterprise, Yossi Sheffi shows that companies' fortunes in the face of such business shocks depend more on choices made before the disruption than they do on actions taken in the midst of it—and that resilience benefits firms every day, disaster or no disaster. He shows how companies can build in flexibility throughout their supply chains, based on proven design principles and the right culture—balancing security, redundancy, and short-term profits. And he shows how investments in resilience and flexibility not only reduce risk but create a competitive advantage in the increasingly volatile marketplace.Sheffi describes the way companies can increase security—reducing the likelihood of a disruption—with layered defenses, the tracking and analysis of “near-misses,” fast detection, and close collaboration with government agencies, trading partners, and even competitors. But the focus of the book is on resilience—the ability to bounce back from disruptions and disasters—by building in redundancy and flexibility. For example, standardization, modular design, and collaborative relationships with suppliers (and other stakeholders) can help create a robust supply chain. And a corporate culture of flexibility—with distributed decision making and communications at all levels—can create a resilient enterprise.Sheffi provides tools for companies to reduce the vulnerability of the supply chain they live in. And along the way he tells the stories of dozens of enterprises, large and small, including Toyota, Nokia, General Motors, Zara, Land Rover, Chiquita, Aisin Seiki, Southwest Airlines, UPS, Johnson and Johnson, Intel, Amazon.com, the U.S. Navy, and others, from across the globe. Their successes, failures, preparations, and methods provide a rich set of lessons in preparing for and managing disruptions. Additional material available at www.TheResilientEnterprise.com.
