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Abstract [en]
The length and complexity of the supply chain tend to increase, rather than diminish, thereby making the supply chain riskier and less predictable and, hence, more vulnerable. At the same time, customers are becoming increasingly demanding. The challenge to businesses today is to create a resilient supply chain in order to manage and mitigate risk and vulnerability. The purpose of this paper is to describe the use methods and tolls from quality and logistics can improve supply chain resilience. There are five principles that characterise supply chain resilience: risk management culture, agility, design-and innovation-led organisations, collaboration and spreading and anchoring of the vision, goal, values and methods. Using a combined quality management philosophy, the speed of process could be increased, and the responsiveness and flexibility could be improved, which means quicker response to changes. It has also been indicated that a combined quality management philosophy improves the companies’ resilience, due to their increased agility and strengthened ability to handle variability and risk management. Quality management tools can be very effective in the companies’ efforts to control supply chain risk and to identify risk sources of variation, even outside the focal company.
Keywords
Resiliance, Innovation, Lean, Quality
National Category
Other Civil Engineering
Research subject
Bussiness and IT
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-6855 (URN)2320/11803 (Local ID)2320/11803 (Archive number)2320/11803 (OAI)
Conference
XVI Convención Cientifica de Ingenieria y Arquitectura 2012, Havanna, Cuba
2015-12-222015-12-222016-11-18Bibliographically approved