August 2024
Intermediate to advanced
7 pages
21m
English
article
Make Smarter Investments in Resilient Supply Chains
by Walid Klibi, Kai Trepte, James B. Rice Jr.
Overview
Many companies focus on mitigating the risk of supply chain disruptions. When one occurs, they take a boom-and-bust approach, investing in resilience, spending heavily in the immediate aftermath, and then doing little more until the next crisis. As an alternative, the authors propose a real options approach to resilience investing, which gives companies a way to make long-term, proactive decisions focused on maintaining supply chain capabilities no matter the crisis.
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