February 2023
Beginner
400 pages
10h 25m
English
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Chapter 18
Improving Supply Chain Resilience
IN THIS CHAPTER
Identifying risks to your supply chain
Prioritizing risks based on severity
Planning for and responding to supply chain risks
You may have heard the saying “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.” You can build a great plan for how you want your supply chain to work, but you also need to prepare for the inevitable surprises. In this chapter, I explain processes that you can use to guide your strategy and deal with these problems so that your supply chain will be more resilient. I include tools and techniques that you can use to identify, prioritize, and manage supply chain risks.
You’ll never be able to eliminate all the uncertainties facing your supply chain, but risk management can give you more control and better options when unexpected events occur.
Challenging Assumptions about the Future
Supply chain plans are built on assumptions about what will happen in the future, and these assumptions are usually based on past experience. If the transit time between one of your suppliers and one of your factories has always been 15 days in the past, you would assume that the transit time will be 15 days for future ...
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