The current business world has a complex and dynamic environment; it has become normal for an organization to deal with disruptive eventsDisruptive events (e.g., COVID-19, wars, natural disasters, bank closures) constantly threatening their supply chainSupply chain flow, general stability, and efficiency. To ensure their survival and success for a long time, organizations must build resilient constituent capabilities, such as preparedness, adaptability, and reactivity, and turn them into crucial components of their strategies, renewing their competitive advantages based on resilienceResilience. The first step for an organization to create resilienceResilience is ensuring their entire workforce is aware of and understands the value that enterprise and supplySupply chain chainResilience resilienceEnterprise and supply chain resilience will enhance; that is why it becomes essential to create instruments to train and make workers aware of the positive impact of being resilient and support the implementation of the resilienceResilience dimension in their management systems and strategic plans. The second step is to develop the preparedness capability, where it is essential to know that some disruptive eventsDisruptive events are easier to predict than others. In those cases, organizations should invest in prediction tools with a high return on investment. Even for the non-predictable events, early symptoms, analysed with the prediction tools, will ease their detection. In summary, it is crucial to implement quantitative tools for pattern recognition and warning creation, allowing organizations to activate resilienceResilience plans in a timely manner and trigger preventive actions. These tools should be capable of working with multi-variate analysis and artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence methods for pattern recognition, prediction of disruptive eventsDisruptive events, and prioritizing the preventive actions required to minimize the negative impact of each disruptive eventDisruptive events, thus, backing organizations in enhancing their resilienceResilience capacity. After implementing the first two steps, organizations must plan for adaptability and reactivity, but these capabilities would require less investment, thanks to a robust preparedness deployment. Implementing the mentioned steps represents an opportunity for an organization to become formally certified in this strategic topic and be more competitive.

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Design, Development, and Implementation of a Specialized Set of Engineering Tools for the Enhancement of Enterprise and Supply Chain Resilience

  • Marco Arias-Vargas,
  • Raquel Sanchis,
  • Raúl Poler

摘要

The current business world has a complex and dynamic environment; it has become normal for an organization to deal with disruptive eventsDisruptive events (e.g., COVID-19, wars, natural disasters, bank closures) constantly threatening their supply chainSupply chain flow, general stability, and efficiency. To ensure their survival and success for a long time, organizations must build resilient constituent capabilities, such as preparedness, adaptability, and reactivity, and turn them into crucial components of their strategies, renewing their competitive advantages based on resilienceResilience. The first step for an organization to create resilienceResilience is ensuring their entire workforce is aware of and understands the value that enterprise and supplySupply chain chainResilience resilienceEnterprise and supply chain resilience will enhance; that is why it becomes essential to create instruments to train and make workers aware of the positive impact of being resilient and support the implementation of the resilienceResilience dimension in their management systems and strategic plans. The second step is to develop the preparedness capability, where it is essential to know that some disruptive eventsDisruptive events are easier to predict than others. In those cases, organizations should invest in prediction tools with a high return on investment. Even for the non-predictable events, early symptoms, analysed with the prediction tools, will ease their detection. In summary, it is crucial to implement quantitative tools for pattern recognition and warning creation, allowing organizations to activate resilienceResilience plans in a timely manner and trigger preventive actions. These tools should be capable of working with multi-variate analysis and artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence methods for pattern recognition, prediction of disruptive eventsDisruptive events, and prioritizing the preventive actions required to minimize the negative impact of each disruptive eventDisruptive events, thus, backing organizations in enhancing their resilienceResilience capacity. After implementing the first two steps, organizations must plan for adaptability and reactivity, but these capabilities would require less investment, thanks to a robust preparedness deployment. Implementing the mentioned steps represents an opportunity for an organization to become formally certified in this strategic topic and be more competitive.