Decision support for supply chain resilience in a risky environment: The DESIIR Project

International audienceWe define the Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) as a process composed of four steps : Risk identification, Risk assessment, Riskmitigation, Risk control. The first step in SCRM practices concerns the identification of risks through regular screening of potential SCrisks. Risk definition consists in four steps. 1.Categorize the risks: 2.Risk screening[U+FF0C] 3.Risk monitoring[U+FF0C] 4.Risk diagnosis. Risk assessment can be identified as the evaluation of risk’s occurrence including an estimation of its impact. The system needs to make statistics on the impact of risks and the frequency of risks through data analysis. At this time, the risk has occurred, the system will issue an alarm, and the decision support system will intervene in the decision-making of the supply chain at this time. The decision-making suggestions made by the system are divided into four types: 1. Risk avoidance; 2. Loss control; 3. Risk transfer; 4. Risk retention. The decision support system will propose decision-making plans for supply chain managers around four core strategies, and predict the subsequent impact of various suggestions. Risk control is ensured through systematic processes, preparedness, risk awareness of employees, arti-culated procedures and elaborated plans. When the decision maker makes a decision based on DSS’s recommendations, the system will track the data and various indicators of the supply chain to assess whether the impact of risk has been reduced