LIFECYCLE CONTINUITY BOOK: Chapter One
The Continuity Problem
Supply chains often lose performance before they visibly fail. The real question is not only what disrupted the supply chain, but where continuity had already weakened before the disruption appeared.
Fragility begins when physical flow, information flow, responsibility flow and decision flow fall out of alignment. Lifecycle continuity gives supply chains the ability to know, own, decide and recover.
Resilience begins upstream: from reacting to disruption to understanding the continuity conditions that determine whether the supply chain can withstand it.
