| | August 20208SUPPLY CHAIN RESILIENCE: MANAGING UNCERTAINTIES AND DISRUPTIONSusiness disruptions due to crises are not uncommon, and there have been exemplary instances of organisations surviving such disruptive periods in the last century. These companies have managed to remain operational despite financial crises and ever-changing customer behaviours across economies. As the global economy faces an unprecedented crisis at present, it would be interesting to see how organisations navigate the multiple disruptions to their supply chains. The present crisis poses multiple challenges for organisations as they would be required to tackle disruption across their demand profiles, supplier availability, and logistics and production.Disruption: The New NormalNatural events, economic uncertainties, pandemics, etc., have resulted in businesses facing disruptions worldwide. Businesses are operating amidst global trade wars and rising protectionism, and have accepted these disruptive conditions as the new normal for their operations. Hence, at a time when businesses are facing possible contraction, they need to be more tactical and manage operations with more preparation, agility and accurate data. From a broader perspective, these disruptions may have an impact across the overall supply networks and can expose the existing fragility in supply chains of even the most sophisticated organisations. The present crisis has resulted in multiple BBy SudiptaGhosh, Partner and Leader, Data & Analytics; Akshat BalDikshit Director; and Kartikay Kumar, Associate, PwC India IN MY OPINIONSudipta has completed B.Tech in Energy Engineering from IIT Kharagpur and MBA in Finance from IIM Calcutta. He has exhibited prolific skills in business intelligence and management consulting, and program management.Akshat studied in IIT Bombay and since 2019 April, he is the director at PWC.Kartikayworks as a Technology Consultant at PwC and works with Technology Consulting Leader of PwC, India TC Advisory section. He completed Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Delhi Technological University and MBA from IIM Calcutta.
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