Mitigating manifest supply chain disruptions
ISSN: 1754-2731
Article publication date: 9 October 2019
Issue publication date: 18 September 2020
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to understand if organizations can leverage recovery/continuous improvement (RCI) capabilities and two competencies to mitigate manifest supply chain (SC) disruptions. Specifically, the authors examine how learning from previous experience and SC disruption-orientation affects organizations’ capability to recover/continuously improve once a SC disruption has manifested. In addition, knowing that organizational inertia likely exists during disruptions, the authors examine the mediating effects of routine rigidity on proposed relationships.
Design/methodology/approach
To determine how these antecedents impact an organization’s RCI capabilities, the authors collected survey data from 219 procurement managers and analyzed these records using structural equation modeling.
Findings
The results indicate that by fostering SC disruption-orientation and developing competencies to learn from previous experience, firms can enhance their RCI capabilities, which in turn improves operational performance. Furthermore, the authors demonstrate how routine rigidity mediates the positive effects these antecedents have on the RCI capabilities construct.
Originality/value
By developing these risk management (RM) tactics and managing routine rigidity, organizations broaden their continuous improvement capability, which enables practitioners to respond to and recover from manifest disruptions. When used in conjunction with other RM tactics, such as inventory and/or redundant capacity, organizations can address an array of disruption scenarios.
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Citation
Riley, J.M., Klein, R., Miller, J. and Sridharan, V. (2020), "Mitigating manifest supply chain disruptions", The TQM Journal, Vol. 32 No. 5, pp. 939-957. https://doi.org/10.1108/TQM-04-2019-0113
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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