What is it about?

Describes a quantitative model that ranks the suppliers and other components of the bill-of-materials network, in order of their impact to the company's baseline performance if disrupted.

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Why is it important?

It provides a precise view into the risk levels of different suppliers considering the entire network topology. It can be implemented and run on a daily basis. From implementation at Ford, we found that a significant percent of the high-risk suppliers we identified were not on the procurement team's radar.

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This page is a summary of: Identifying Risks and Mitigating Disruptions in the Automotive Supply Chain, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, October 2015, INFORMS,
DOI: 10.1287/inte.2015.0804.
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