Building resilient supply chain capabilities

Phase 1 - Before the disruption

Is your company ready and does it have the ability to anticipate and prepare? Proactively building security and robustness are first steps in getting ready to tackle any disruptive event.

Other steps to consider are creating situation awareness and having the knowledge to identify potential threats. It’s also crucial to have clear visibility across your supply chain while maintaining security (cyber, physical and protective).

Phase 2 - During the disruption

Do you have the responsiveness and the ability to both adapt and respond to events? To be able to do so, you need to manage and adjust resources by building flexibility and redundancy.

It requires the right level of coordination (e.g. planning, suppliers, partners) to be able to respond to the situation efficiently while maintaining business continuity.

Phase 3 - After the disruption

Are you equipped to learn, recover and/or grow from past events? Contingencies will need to be put in place to restore functions and adapt to the ‘new normal’.

PwC’s free Supply Chain Resilience assessment

We’ve created a test to provide companies with insights into their current supply chain resilience maturity level.

Built around the six elements from our framework above, participants will answer a series of questions that will provide information about the current state of their supply chain resilience maturity and potential next steps to take to increase resilience against future disruptive events.

How PwC can help you build a resilient supply chain

With an increased threat of recurring disruptions, it’s crucial that companies take the necessary steps to both assess and prepare their own supply chains to be more resilient. We work closely with organisations across multiple industries and sectors to help them prepare for future events by sharing our extensive supply chain knowledge and experience with a scientific, industry-specific approach and best practices.

PwC’s a global industry expert and leader in supply chain management consulting. We provide a wide range of services covering all the aspects of the supply chain: