DESIGN OF RESILIENT SUPPLY CHAINS

Globalization increases an access to knowledge and resources. Companies seeking new solutions for their products identify the need for cooperation with suppliers of components and technologies from different parts of the world. This determines configuring international supply chains that are particularly vulnerable to the business uncertainty and environmental turbulence. The main aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of purchasing decisions in New Product Development (NPD) processes and Supplier Involvement for configuring resilient processes and the structure of a supply chain. The study is based on two methods. First, there was a systematic literature review on papers covering SCRES (supply chain resilience) to obtain the key SCRES attributes. In the second stage of the research, a case study of NPD in the cosmetics' packaging supply chain is presented. This concerns the cooperation between the company providing packaging solutions, its first-tier suppliers and the main customer (which is a manufacturer of cosmetics products). Further, the purchasing decisions and SI practice were linked with identified SCRES elements, which are: flexibility (the most common attribute), redundancy, transparency and visibility, agility, collaboration and information sharing. The importance and possibility of taking into account resilience as early as during the design of the supply chain of a new product was confirmed. However, its role can be affected by the type of demand, production environment, product variety as well as the production volume. Therefore, it is recommended that both the supply chains of different products as well as various sized companies are investigated in any further, quantitative research. This paper is an output of the science project "Flexibility in relationships with suppliers in terms of supplier purchaser models of cooperation on product development in the B2B market", no. 2016/21/B/HS4/00665, financed by the National Science Centre (NCN) in Poland.