Business A-Level
supply chain resilience
What supply chain resilience means in Business A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of supply chain resilience
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Reference: AQA
The ability to withstand disruption, which stripping every buffer out undermines, as the blocked Suez Canal and the semiconductor shortage exposed.
Topics that use supply chain resilience
- Making operational decisions to improve performance: managing inventory and supply chains (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- capacity utilisation
- Core vs non-core activities
- effectiveness versus efficiency
- ethical sourcing
- holding cost versus stockout cost
- outsourcing
- producing to order
- re-order level and quantity
Using supply chain resilience in the exam
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