Mitigation of Supply Chain Vulnerability Through Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR)

The chapter aims to clarify the concept of supply chain vulnerability and to show how collaborative methods such as Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) can mitigate its effects. It proposes a framework of supply chain vulnerability that includes a relation between internal and external elements. The framework also explains the relationship between resilience and robustness and supply chain vulnerability. This chapter gives an overview of the theoretical study of supply chain vulnerability. The research contains a literature review of supply chain vulnerability, supply chain resilience, supply chain robustness and correlated elements. In addition, the chapter presents a literature review on CPFR. We propose a theoretical framework to explain supply chain vulnerability and how CPFR can aim to mitigate it. The chapter provides empirical insights about supply chain vulnerability, how it is related to its internal and external components, and how collaborative methods such as CPFR can assist in mitigating vulnerability effects. Because of the chosen research approach, the research results contribute to the theoretical discussion about supply chain vulnerability. The chapter includes implications for the development of a framework regarding supply chain vulnerability and its relationship with the concepts of resilience, robustness, and other elements. We discuss the mitigation of supply chain vulnerability, as well as the contribution of CPFR to the mitigation of the effects of supply chain vulnerability. Further study of the concepts of supply chain vulnerability, resilience, and robustness is also presented.