Supply Chain Resilience: Assessing Resilience over the Life Cycle of Capital Equipment

Abstract

Supply chain resilience is becoming an essential concept for ensuring sustainability of a company. Defined as an enterprise's ability to survive, adapt and grow in the face of turbulent change (Fiksel,2006), supply chain resilience concepts have great potential for improving supply chain management. To evaluate the various stages of resilience over a product's life cycle, 11 products with long life cycles (e.g. capital equipment) were identified for this study. As exploratory work, each product was segmented into two phases of its life cycle: production and sustainment. This research analyzed data collected on supply chain resilience factors: vulnerabilities and capabilities for each individual product, to determine if differences exist as products progress through the lifecycle. The results indicate that the supply chain resilience framework and measurement tool (Pettit, Croxton and Fiksel, 2013) provides managers with beneficial information to assist in the strategic management of their supply chain.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 09, 2014
Accession Number
AD1015278

Entities

People

  • Brian P. Tobin
  • Timothy J. Pettit

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Cyber
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Science
  • Life Cycles
  • Logistics
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Organizational Structure
  • Reliability
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Risk Management
  • Supply Chain
  • Supply Chain Management
  • United States
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).