Building Resilience in Supply Chains

The report argues that global supply chains are increasingly volatile and vulnerable to systemic risks that cannot be managed by individual actors. It identifies natural disasters, extreme weather, and cyber risk as primary threats and proposes a 'blueprint for resilient supply chains' to align public and private sector responses.

• Significant supply chain disruptions have a measurable negative impact on corporate financial value, with research indicating they reduce the share price of affected companies by an average of 7%.
• The risk landscape for global supply chains in 2012 remained largely consistent with 2011, though there was a significant increase in concern regarding extreme weather, which ranked as the second most prevalent global risk.
• Cyber risk is identified as the most critical non-traditional risk because small failures in interdependent material, financial, and information flows can rapidly trigger system-wide failures.
• Building resilience requires three essential 'must have' requirements: a common risk vocabulary across public and private sectors, improved data and information flow, and increased agility and flexibility in supply chain systems.
• Regional priorities for resilience differ: North America and Europe prioritize harmonized legislative and regulatory standards, while Asia prioritizes improved information sharing between governments and businesses.
• The report proposes a resilience blueprint consisting of four core components: partnerships (moving toward long-term, transparent relationships), policy (flexible government incentives and infrastructure redundancy), strategy (adaptable and agile organizational capabilities), and information technology (utilizing analytics and real-time data sharing).
• Corruption is identified as a 'creeping risk' that significantly impacts supply chain resilience, rising from 13th to 9th place in the Forum's ranking of risks affecting global supply chains in 2012.

APA

World Economic Forum (2013). Building Resilience in Supply Chains. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_RRN_MO_BuildingResilienceSupplyChains_Report_2013.pdf

Chicago

World Economic Forum. Building Resilience in Supply Chains. 2013. http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_RRN_MO_BuildingResilienceSupplyChains_Report_2013.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldeconomicforum2013building, author = {{World Economic Forum}}, title = {{Building Resilience in Supply Chains}}, institution = {World Economic Forum}, year = {2013}, month = jan, url = {http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_RRN_MO_BuildingResilienceSupplyChains_Report_2013.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }