Structural Flexibility in Supply Chains: TISM and FISM Approach

Supply chain (SC) has gained much popularity among the researchers and practitioners from the stage of its infant mortality. Of all, flexibility aspects in supply chains have gained much attention as ‘flexibility’ supports a firm’s supply chain to be more ‘responsive to change’. The supply side also calls for the ability of SCs to respond to rapid changes in the demand. ‘Structural flexibility’ reflects on the ability of SC to adapt or reconfigure its architecture in response to major changes in the demand side and/or supply sides (Christopher, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, 2011). Although the research on flexibility has been reported in literature, the fuzziness in flexibility has been observed to be a missing field. While incorporating fuzziness, the interactions as well the Matrice d’Impacts Croises Multiplication Appliquee a un Classement (MICMAC) analysis become more transparent.