Supply Chain Insights
Articles on supply chain strategy, risk, inventory, logistics and careers — and on the decisions you practise in the Supply Chain Disaster simulation. Articles that cite research list their sources at the end.
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Risk
Cybersecurity vs. Financial Risk in Supply Chains
Supply chain managers face a critical decision: where to allocate limited risk management resources. [75% of organizations experienced a software supply ch...
Risk
How to Build a Digital Supply Chain Risk Management System
This tutorial walks through implementing a functional **supply chain risk management** system that combines established **risk assessment frameworks** with...
Resilience
7 Automotive Supply Chain Lessons for Manufacturing Resilience
Supply chain managers in manufacturing face a stark reality: [new tariffs are affecting 30% of global supply chain activities](https://www.mckinsey.com/cap...
Resilience
Redundancy vs. Agility: Automotive Supply Chain Strategies
Automotive supply chain resilience demands a difficult choice. Build redundancy through backup suppliers, safety stock, and parallel production sites, or p...
Resilience
7 Factors Driving Supply Chain Agility in 2026
Global supply chain interdependence has shifted from competitive advantage to operational vulnerability. Tariffs, climate disruptions, and geopolitical fri...
Resilience
7 Supply Chain Resilience Skills That Separate Leaders from Managers
Supply chain disruptions have shifted from rare events to operational constants. Port congestion, geopolitical tensions, climate events, and supplier insol...
Resilience
Why SCRES Strategies Fail Without Built-In Redundancy
Most supply chain resilience strategies look impressive on paper. They feature detailed risk matrices, supplier scorecards, and quarterly reviews. Then a p...
Resilience
SCRES Strategies: How to Build a Resilient Supply Chain Framework
This tutorial builds a practical SCRES framework covering supplier diversification assessments, backup sourcing protocols, and disruption response playbook...
Resilience
How to Build a Resilient Supply Chain Framework
This tutorial walks through a practical flexibility and redundancy framework ready to deploy — covering supplier diversification assessment, backup sourcin...
Resilience
5 Supply Chain Resilience Strategies That Work in 2026
Port congestion in Singapore. Tariff escalations affecting semiconductor flows. Extreme weather events disrupting logistics corridors across three continen...
Operations
How to Build Adaptive Inventory Policies for Disruptions
Traditional inventory management relies on fixed reorder points and static safety stock calculations. These methods fail during volatility because they can...
Operations
Just-In-Time vs Agile Supply Chains: Which Approach Wins?
Learn when to use Just-In-Time manufacturing, agile supply chain practices, or a hybrid approach. This comparison evaluates cost, risk, and responsiveness ...