In the new global reality, Chief Supply Chain Officers need supply chain networks that don’t just minimize day-to-day risk but can also absorb, adapt to, and recover from catastrophic disruption whenever and wherever it strikes.
Organizations need to proactively manage risk and anticipate market changes by building resilient supply chain networks that are risk-aware, secure, transparent, adaptive, fast-moving and optimized.
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Supply chain network resilience is about managing and adapting to the unknown across the whole spectrum of risk—from day-to-day operational risks through to catastrophic supply chain network disruptions.
Respond to sudden supply chain network changes with improved real-time visibility and risk identification and mitigation solutions.
Adapt to evolving supply/demand with scenario planning and modeling, plus risk/opportunity analysis, as part of sales and operations planning.
Manage uncertainty by boosting flexibility and capacity through network modeling and simulation, strategic buffer sizing, and multi-sourcing options.
Enhance your ability to adapt to and recover from major disruption by identifying points of potential failure through a Resilience Stress Test.
To easily get a sense of an organization’s supply chain network resilience maturity level, complete Accenture’s Supply Chain Resilience Quick Assessment.
This quick assessment uses answers to questions across the end-to-end value chain to provide a scorecard that helps an organization understand its level of supply chain network resilience.
A more comprehensive supply chain resilience stress test has been developed by Accenture and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to assess the operational and financial risks created by disasters or other catastrophic events.
Leveraging Accenture’s extensive expertise in supply chain, operations and analytics, and MIT’s leading research and capabilities in data science, the stress test quantifies supply chain network resilience in a single index.
Organizations are able to quickly identify potential points of supply chain network failure, assess their related financial exposure, define appropriate mitigation strategies and actions, and benchmark resilience against their peers.
The Resilience Stress Test analyzes supply chains and provides a resiliency score and dashboard to future proof business.
View TranscriptBy measuring a supply chain network’s performance, organizations can quantify supply chain network resilience, identify potential points of failure, define mitigation strategies, and assess the related financial exposure.
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What is supply chain network resilience?
Companies with resilient supply chain networks are better able to manage change to their supply chain & operations. They can flex and adapt quickly to evolving patterns of supply and demand. They use advanced data science to predict disruption and react with confidence, at speed. With these enhanced risk sensing and management capabilities, their supply chain networks are more secure, more transparent, more cost-efficient, and more attuned to the changing needs and values of individual customers.
Why is supply chain network resilience important?
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the fragility of many global supply chain networks, particularly those that had been finetuned for efficiency and speed. It’s a key reason why proactively managing risk and boosting resilience is now top of the agenda for CSCOs across industries. The goal is to use digital connectivity and intelligent technologies to enhance the supply chain network’s ability to adapt, respond and recover from whatever unknowns arise.
How do you build supply chain network resilience?
To manage and mitigate risk, you first need to understand it. That’s true at every level—whether it’s the day-to-day operational risks in a single facility or the systemic risks of severe supply chain network disruption. To help companies with this complex process, Accenture and MIT have developed a new “Stress Test” for identifying supply chain network risks, assessing the financial exposure, and defining the right response.
How is supply chain network resilience measured?
Accenture’s Resilience Stress Test uses an innovative approach to map a company’s entire supply chain and create a digital representation of it (called a “digital twin”). This digital twin is then used to assess the impact of various disruption scenarios. The results are consolidated into a single index that quantifies the resilience of the supply chain network as a whole.
