Our Head of Operations, Robin Agarwal explored the importance of a resilient supply chain in his article for SupplyChain Strategy.

Robin discussed:

  • Critical Supplier Dependency: Organisations rely heavily on key suppliers, and disruptions can halt operations, causing financial and reputational damage.
  • Common Disruption Risks: Financial instability, legal and geopolitical risks, reputational damage, natural disasters, and issues in lower-tier suppliers can all impact supply chains.
  • False Security & Risk Tools Limitations: Many companies overlook risk management until disruptions occur, and existing monitoring tools often provide retrospective, rather than predictive, alerts.
  • Building Supply Chain Resilience: Diversifying suppliers, understanding dependencies, having contingency plans, and ensuring operational resilience through stress-tested strategies are key.
  • Ongoing Risk Management: Resilience planning must be continuous, with regularly updated and tested strategies to ensure organisations can swiftly adapt to disruptions.

Read the full article here: The case for building supply chain resilience – SupplyChain Strategy

What’s Next?

4C’s supply chain and operations experts have helped numerous clients through optimisation of business models, process excellence, digital innovation and much more. To find out more, contact Robin Argawal  or Erika Biggadike discuss your challenges and how we can help.