Building resilient supply chains through supply chain planning advancements. A case study mapping current resilience capabilities
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Supply chain management (MPSCM), MSc
Publicerad
2022
Författare
Wallson, Samuel
Norlander, Anton
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The world has recently been struck by many different types of disruptions, affecting
the supply chain’s performance, such as a global pandemic. A consensus in business
is that changes are needed in some of the current supply chain’s strategies to stay
competitive and resilient. Supply chain resilience and the concept of developing a
resilient supply chain have thus become a part of many companies’ agendas. The
development of capabilities to respond to, or minimize disruptions impact.
The thesis has thus focused on developing current supply chain resilience capabilities
at the case company Ericsson. This has been done by analyzing past disruption
cases, with different types of origin, to investigate the current state of Ericsson’s
capabilities. The data was gathered by interviewing involved employees in respective
disruption, gathering information about the different activities and strategies
applied when mitigating the impact.
The case data was then analyzed individually and across the cases. The mitigation
actions and strategies were then analyzed and then categorized into the adapted
resilience capability framework. Ericsson proved to apply many anticipative and
adaptive capabilities during the different disruptions, leaving no significant gap in
the framework used. Even though no significant gaps were found in the framework,
some areas of improvement were identified. The improvement suggestions
are connected to Ericsson’s ability to sense and map their vulnerability, information
and data management, disruption processes, and leveraging and structuring
post-disruptive feedback sessions.
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Supply chain resilience, Resilience phases, Supply chain capabilities, Resilience capabilities, Capability framework, Supply chain planning