While carriers focus on the immediate and short-term impact and how to solve the situation, .i.e how to deliver on time if still possible, shippers focus more on the strategic and long-term impact and on how to avoid the situation, i.e. how to prevent this from happening again.
Kelly Pitera explores and evaluates resiliency efforts currently being used by importing enterprises, focusing on goods movement within the supply chain.
In ‘Structuring a definition of Resilience in the Freight Transportation System’, by Chilan Ta, Kelly Pitera and Anne Goodchild, resilience is defined along three dimensions: Physical Infrastructure, Managing Organization, System Users.
