Panel discussion report: Building Supply Chain Resilience

The events of the past 12 months - coupled with challenges related to the UK’s new trading relationship with the EU - have highlighted both the critical importance, and the frailties of manufacturing supply chains and have prompted organisations across a range of sectors to rethink their strategies.

Last year (December 2020)- in partnership with leading industrial components supplier RS components - The Engineer brought together a panel of experts to explore the latest thinking around manufacturing supply chain management and examine some of the measures that can be taken to manage risks and disruption in the short term and build in resilience for the long term.

The following report examines some of the key topics explored during this discussion

Opening the discussion, one of the world’s leading authorities on logistics and supply chain management, Cranfield School of Management’s Professor Richard Wilding, offered a pithy description of what supply chain resilience actually means in practice.