The purpose of this paper is to investigate the alignment between product design and the supply chain and to identify how this alignment impacts on a firm’s supply chain responsiveness and resilience.
Over the last decade, temporary supply chains (TSCs) have become a well-recognized logistics model. In TSCs, supply chain members are organized for an ad hoc project; they pool resources in order to make the project successful. Although it might be perceived that TSCs are unstable due to their temporary nature, this paper aims to discuss how TSCs can be managed so as to be both stable and agile…